I waited to vacation in Sydney until I was 27 years old for a reason: I knew that once I stepped foot in the city, I’d never want to leave. Upon touching down there last summer, my suspicions were quickly confirmed. My flight to Sydney arrived at 7am, and as tired as I was after [...]
48 Hours in Sydney
October 26, 2010 By 21 Comments
As I’ve said before, having a mere 48 hours in any city is hardly ideal, but sometimes the reality is that it’s all you have and you simply have to roll with it. I knew before even touching down in Sydney for the first time this summer that it was going to be far from enough [...]
Photo Friday: Bruny Island, Tasmania
September 24, 2010 By 13 Comments
Our first day in Hobart, we took a long, windy car ride down to the Tasman Peninsula to board a boat headed out to Bruny Island. Bear in mind, July in Tasmania is the height of winter and even with the full-on windsuit we all donned, it was still bitterly cold. In fact, I would [...]
Tasmania on the Half Shell
September 22, 2010 By 28 Comments
I should start by being honest: I don’t eat shellfish (aside from scallops). In fact, I didn’t eat seafood at all until I moved to San Francisco and discovered what seafood should really taste like. I’m adventurous about a lot of things, but food apparently, is not one of them. And yet, when offered a [...]
Photo Friday: Hobart, Tasmania
September 10, 2010 By 13 Comments
Going into it, I had such misconceptions about Hobart. I think Tasmania, I think “Final Frontier,” I think rustic and sporadically barren and not at all the cosmopolitan city I found in Hobart, the island state’s capital. I was hardly anticipating such a thriving downtown and for there to be so many people residing there [...]
The Jewel of Tasmania
September 8, 2010 By 24 Comments
This is the occasional part of my job that I’m kind of embarrassed to talk about. You see, the whole purpose for the jaunt to Tasmania—and as quickly as we were in and out, it was just that: a jaunt—was for the opening of this uber-swank resort. A place that in my wildest dreams, I [...]
Go Wild in Tassie
September 1, 2010 By 18 Comments
When we landed in Tasmania, the driver immediately whisked us off down the road to the Bonorong Wildlife Park for our first authentic taste of the isolated Aussie state. As Tasmania is first and foremost known for its wildlife—and wildlife often not found anywhere else in the world—it was cool to see a glimpse of [...]
Photo Friday: Sydney, Australia
August 27, 2010 By 15 Comments
It’s truly one of the loveliest cities I’ve had the chance to visit, and I only got but 48 hours—24 coming, 24 going—within Sydney’s confines. (This time.) A gloomy, dripping and biting 48 hours at that—it is winter Down Under, after all—but 48 hours nonetheless. On the final night in Sydney, I left my camera [...]
How I Got to Tasmania, Literally
August 18, 2010 By 12 Comments
A few of you have asked how I pick where I’m going next, so I thought I’d indulge you. As it’s not unheard of that I’m in Dubai one day, Rwanda the next and Malaysia a few weeks later, I can see how this would be confusing, particularly as I often don’t blog in chronological [...]
What Not to Care
September 23, 2009 By 14 Comments
I “met” Sarah Jackson back in the spring when she was preparing to embark on a three-week solo journey through Oz and was a bit weary about things. So she contacted me and I tried (tried being the operative word) to ease her fears. Well, as you can read below, things worked out swimmingly. A [...]
