Airports have always held a certain fascination for me. It's no secret that I am spiritually dedicated to travel, and airports are like the cathedrals of my weird religion. So for a travel junkie like

Darwin was the last of the Australian State capital cities I visited. It took me years to get there as it is closer to Asia then the majority of the Australian population centres. With a modest population

My taxi driver from the airport asks what brings me to Sarajevo. He is surprised a female travelling alone would come all the way from Australia to Bosnia. On the way into town, he proudly points out

Riga, Latvia - Latvian football - Skonto FC vs Liepajas Metalurgs The infographic sign above the ticket office at Skonto Stadium shows bombs and guns are banned inside, along with syringes. Tickets to

Memento Park, Hungary Hungary’s Socialist past has been preserved at Memento Park and within easy reach by public transport (tram or bus) 10 kilometres outside of Budapest centre. It was snowing on the

I’m sitting on the terrace out the front of my apartment on a Sunday morning. A group of tourists stop in front of me taking photos of my street, my house, the neighbours and me. I live in Vauban, a suburb

The main claim to fame of Nis was that Constantine The Great was born here. It's not on the tourist trail. Unfortunately Serbia is not on the tourist trail as it should be. With the stigma of the Balkan

It is possible to travel around England by very slow transport. A network of man-made canals criss-cross Great Britain. Canals link up with rivers for a popular lifestyle of leisurely floating from place

Melbourne is constantly voted as the “Most livable city in the world” yet it is also for the budget traveller a costly money pit. There are many guides on how to save money in Melbourne, but I've noticed

The first time I heard about the Glasgow Necropolis was from a friend in the 1990's. They would tell me how he and his Goth friends would hang out there and drink at night. While bats flew around them

When I arrived in Vilnius by bus my first impression was disappointment. With new office buildings to the north side of the Neris river and on the south a compact old town spotted with pastel coloured

Why go to the Orkney Islands in winter? Because I was in the middle of doing a lap around Scotland for £1-a-journey using Megabus. While in Aberdeen, I made a last-minute decision to book a £30 return

Qualification for the UEFA League Championships 2012 Unfortunately my photos don't show justice to the atmosphere. I only took my ipod as I wouldn't dare bring a decent camera to the game. When going to

After three months in Vietnam cruising around with my fellow Aussie traveller Wes. After sleeper buses and motorbikes it was time to leave Saigon and head to Phnom Penh and check out Cambodia. In a tourist

Ever since I read the Jean M. Auel ‘Clan of the Cave Bear’ trilogy, I’ve been intrigued by the Danube River, known by the Neanderthals in her books as the “Mother River”. Commencing in the Black Forest

Kensal Green was the first of London's Victorian-era “magnificent seven“ garden cemeteries. Only three miles from Oxford Street on land purchased by the General Cemetery Company to set up a better place

When I first arrived in Germany it was February. People were running around dressed like birds. They had colorful suits with flaps hanging off them. After visiting a few pubs during my first night crawl,

Arriving by train into Dundee on a wet autumn day, the church-spired skyline looked sullen on my left and to the right the Tye Rail Bridge was blanketed in mist. I walked the short distance from the station

Arriving at the newly built Macedonian National Arena in Gradski Park twenty minutes before kick-off, I thought I had got the time wrong. I couldn’t find a ticket office and there and a lack of football

I awoke early for the 6:02 a.m. regional train out of Prague to the Czech countryside town of Kutna Hora. I was on my way to see a place that had been on my ‘to-do’ list for a long time. Sedlec Ossuary;