These posts might cover anything from packing tips and transport lowdowns to useful travel gadgets and gear we’re using.
Vienna, like Budapest, is a grand city of wide boulevards lined with majestic buildings, decorated with splendid statuary, and plenty of public spaces that allow you to step back and admire them. So what’s the best way to explore the city? Seeing Vienna on foot and by tram. Seeing Vienna By Foot – The Best Ways … Read more
The weather had been glorious my first couple of days snowboarding at Zell am See in Austria, with plenty of sunshine and still some untracked powder, albeit with a fast-decreasing snowpack. On the third day, however, the weather closed in. It was around -10°C in Zell am See and only getting colder up on the … Read more
We’ve always loved train travel. ‘Loved’ being the key word. But a daylong journey fraught with problems from Budapest to Vienna, Vienna to Salzburg, and Salzburg to Zell am See, had us wishing we could have flown, and had us wondering what happened to the romance of train travel. Is it dead? Over the years … Read more
My top 10 safari photography tips are based on my experience photographing The Big Five on safari in Kenya in the Masai Mara National Reserve and Tsavo West National Park recently. But also my many years photographing wildlife everywhere from Australia to Arabia as a pro photographer shooting travel guidebooks and magazine stories. Photographing wildlife … Read more
Our safari guide, Edward, is his usual cheery self when we meet at 6.15am for an early morning game drive. As Edward has already shown us the Big Five – the lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and rhino – on the previous two days’ drives, he is determined to show us some hippos today. Although the leopard … Read more