Tick tick tick. This travel blog is for the time poor but curious traveller who wants to see at a glance the top three things to tick on every trip. Why three? It keeps my travel blog short and sweet. It also ties in with a triptych, an artistic form from the middle ages which is an arrangement of three pictures together that tell a story.
Magical Menton I have spent around three years in total travel time exploring France from north to south east to west and I was completely taken aback by our visit to Menton. This town is just Golden. Literally. It’s painted in every spectrum of the palette from orange to yellow and glows like an ochre-russet dream. I had never seen this town on any tourist route and only stumbled across […]
There’s a lot to see when you head northwest out of Victoria’s capital, Melbourne and go up through the Macedon ranges and out to the Central Highlands of Victoria. You’ll find beaut towns like Kyneton, Woodend, Trentham, Daylesford, Clunes and Castlemaine – packed with gourmet produce, clever artisans, serene spas and loads of gastro-pubs. Book ending these gems to the east and west are the larger regional towns of Bendigo […]
Taos New Mexico had always been on our bucket list, and we managed to finally get there late in the season to discover what all the fuss was about. We drove from Copper Mountain along highway 150 and felt the landscape become more remote and unusual as awe approached. About half an hour out of Taos we noticed unusual mounds and structures and learnt that there was a 600-acre Earthship […]