Travel and expat blogs make finals for 2010 Bloggies

Travel blogs have made a fantastic showing in the finals of this year’s 2010 Weblog Awards, also known as the Bloggies. Food blogs have been popular in the Bloggies for some time and remain so, but the profile of travel blogging has really leapt ahead in the last couple of years.
The Bloggies is one of [...]

Nominate your favourite food and travel bloggies for the 2010 Bloggies

One more day to get your nomination form in – please consider a vote for Roaming Tales!

2010 Bloggies
The Weblog Awards, or Bloggies, are on again and accepting nominations for one more day. I finally got my form in this afternoon, nominating a few of my favourite blogs, including several great food and travel blogs. There [...]

Passports with Purpose: Win a holiday to Tranquility Bay in Belize

Win a holiday to Tranquility Bay to one of Belize’s Caribbean islands and help build a school in Cambodia.

I’m delighted to bring you news of another fantastic raffle prize for the Passports with Purpose fundraiser. This time it’s an accommodation package for beautiful Tranquility Bay in Belize and involves a personal favourite of mine – [...]

Passports with Purpose: Win a Caribbean holiday to Coconut Bay

Enter to win a Caribbean holiday and help build a school in rural Cambodia.

I am thrilled to announce my participation in the travel blogging fundraiser Passports with Purpose.
The lovely folks at Coconut Bay Beach Resort and Spa in Saint Lucia in the Caribbean have agreed to sponsor a prize. And what a fantastic prize!
For a [...]

Sponsored post – Gap Year in New Zealand

The success of the Tourism Queensland ‘Best Job in the World’ campaign seems to have spawned a whole new way of promoting destination tourism. I particularly like the look of this ‘Gap Year’ competition from the New Zealand Tourist Board.
Can you believe that I grew up in Australia and I’ve never been to New Zealand? [...]

Prize draw – Standing with Stones

Thank you to everyone who commented on my Skara Brae post to win a copy of the DVD Standing with Stones. I have used the ‘Truly Random Number Generator’ to virtually pull the names out of a hat and I have two winners, Antonia Malchik of Perceptive Travel and Maria of Fab Mums. I will [...]

Best of the web – Roaming Tales: Travel links for 28 September

We have guests from out of town so I have been playing tourist in San Francisco this past week and yesterday we went to Alcatraz. I’ve only lived here since July but it’s amazing how quickly I’ve started to feel at home here. Like many locals, I may not have got around to doing Alcatraz [...]

UN of food: China (plus win books!)

We all think we know what Chinese food is but the truth is that it’s incredibly diverse. The most common style of Chinese cuisine in the West is Cantonese but China is an enormous country and even within the majority Han population, there is vast regional variation in the cuisine. When you take into account [...]

Farewell London, hello San Francisco

I wouldn’t exactly say I left my heart there but I have fond memories of San Francisco.
I spent four days in San Fran in 1997 with my mother. I was just 20 at the time and we had great fun. We house-sat a flat belonging to a friend of a friend in the Mission District [...]

Passports with Purpose success

Travel blog raffle raised $7,420 for Heifer International
The Passports with Purpose fundraiser has ended – though you can still make donations to Heifer International via the FirstGiving page.
Pam of Nerd’s Eye View, Beth of Wanderlust and Lipstick, Michelle of Wandermom and Debbie of Delicious Baby have been hard at work calculating who the prize winners [...]

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