Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
In 2008 I went to Cambodia with photographer Peter Garmusch to write this story on traditional Khmer silk and to do preliminary research on a potential story about restoration work on the Angkor ruins. One of the strangest things we saw was a floating village near Siem Reap. We arrived too late in the day [...]
Do you remember the photo of that delectable dessert in my post about the Sunshine Coast hinterland? I bought it from the Freestyle Escape stall at the Real Food Festival in Maleny. Guess what? You could win a cookery class at Freestyle Escape and raise money to build libraries in Zambia at the same time! It’s [...]
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 [...]
Passports with Purpose has rolled around again and I’m proud to be a participating blogger for the fourth year in a row. I’m thrilled about the prizes I have secured – just one more day before the big reveal! I will give you some clues… One is a travel prize based in northern California and, [...]
The prizes in Passports with Purpose always sound fabulous but do they live up to the hype? Julie Schwietert Collazo has penned a guest post about her stay at Tranquility Bay in Belize. Julie was the beneficiary of the accommodation prize donated by the resort in the 2009 Passports with Purpose, which raised money to build [...]
Call me a food geek but I really enjoy visiting local farmers markets when I’m on holiday. It feel I am getting to know a place when I see what types of produce are grown and made nearby. It’s also fascinating to see what rules the market goes by. Some markets are citified foodie destinations [...]
Our trip to Bordeaux was well planned in every respect, except one: We flew instead of catching the train and this meant we couldn’t buy wine to take home. It was April 2007 and we were living in London. The airlines had recently imposed the ban on carrying liquids on board the flight. As we [...]
It took a lot of effort to get to Canberra for the weekend but it was worth the trip. We stayed with my husband’s aunt and the babies got to hang out in her gorgeous backyard, which had ripe, red berries in the strawberry patch and gorgeous white peonies in the flower beds and fresh [...]
Now that the babies are nine months old and becoming more sociable and independent, I am able to turn my mind to my freelance journalism career once again. I have negotiated with my husband so that I can have some time mid week to work and if things work out, we may end up hiring [...]
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