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.
We spent a week based in Menton in the Cote d’Azur (read the blog post here ) in the corner that buts up to Italy in the maritime Alps region of France in May. We were right on the train line so decided to take a side trip to Èze and another to Monte Carlo in Monaco, both only about 15-20 mins and a few stops from Menton. Whilst we’re […]
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 […]