Our anniversary stay at MacCallum House

Bed in Josephine's Garden room at MacCallum House

I rarely stay in nice hotels when I travel for pleasure. I like a bit of luxury as much as the next person but I usually prefer to spend my money on other things. When I’m exploring a new place, I don’t tend to spend a lot of time at the hotel so I typically [...]

Win a stay in MacCallum House in Mendocino

MacCallum House

I have hosted accommodation prizes for Passports with Purpose for the past two years running. In 2009 I hosted two Caribbean resort prizes – Coconut Bay in St Lucia and Tranquility Bay in Belize – and in 2010 I worked with the Fairmont Olympic in Seattle. They were all fantastic sponsors and the prizes sounded [...]

An insider’s guide to the Fairmont Olympic and Seattle

Fairmont Olympic

The historic Fairmont Olympic in Seattle has donated an overnight stay in its executive suite as a prize in this year’s Passports with Purpose. Read all about the hotel and the prize in my previous post – or head directly over to the Passports with Purpose donation page for your chance to win. Raffle tickets [...]

Passports with Purpose: Fairmont Olympic in Seattle

Fairmont Olympic interior

The Fairmont Olympic in Seattle is a corporate hero to those of us involved in Passports with Purpose. Our travel blogging fundraiser has only been running for three years and Fairmont has been with us every step of the way. This is their third year to sponsor a prize and this year I am the [...]

Passports with Purpose 2010: We’re building a village in India!

PassportsSchoolSign

I am proud to be part of Passports with Purpose once again. I really am! That might sound like a platitude but it’s not. See this? This is the school we built in Cambodia last year. That’s right. Through the efforts of travel bloggers the generosity of readers and sponsors, we raised $30,000 and now [...]

Driving Highway 1 in California – Big Sur Lodge and Pfeiffer Falls

Our cabins at Big Sur Lodge

This is part 4 a series about a road trip along California’s famous Highway 1. Please check out my other posts on Highway 1 and don’t forget to subscribe. After visiting the beautiful lookout at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, we wanted to find somewhere in Big Sur country to stay the night. We had [...]

Interview with Terence Carter of Grantourismo travel site

Salon area of Marrakesh holiday home, one of the first Grantourismo destinations

Recently HomeAway Holiday-Rentals announced a major new foray into the world of social media. The holiday home rental company has hired husband-and-wife team travel writer Lara Dunston and photographer Terence Carter for a year-long project called Grantourismo. The idea is that Lara and Terry will travel around the world – 24 locations in 12 months [...]

Carnival of Cities for 30 December 2009 – From New York to Nairobi

Carnival of Cities - A blog carnival about cities and towns

Happy new year! I am delighted to be hosting the Carnival of Cities this week. What a great round-up of interesting posts about cities around the world. To all the participating bloggers, thank you and don’t forget to promote this post! Please note, the Carnival of Cities is a blog carnival for posts about any [...]

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 [...]

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