As the second largest Thai island, Koh Samui has something for everyone, from simple guest houses and hostels to luxury resorts and extravagant private villas. The wellness offerings on Koh Samui are most certainly wide-ranging…
There’s a version of experiencing New Zealand’s Southern Lakes that involves booking a guided walk, staying in huts for a few nights and arriving at the other end with abundant photos of spectacular vistas and…
Cairns punches above its weight for a city its size. Harbourside boardwalks are lined with fine dining, the marina is thick with seafood, and the Esplanade alone covers everything from a French bistro to a…
️Flight time~3 hours (clock shows 4)Direct airlinesJetstar, Qantas, Virgin AustraliaTime difference+1hr Sydney, Oct-Apr onlyFive nights in Cairns, and I’d stopped noticing how quiet the streets went after dark, how the mountains sat right behind the…
I heard the jet a full second before the trees opened up enough to see it. I hadn’t gone looking for a plane-spotting trail. I’d searched for an easy hike in Cairns with good views,…
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New Zealand’s food story is worth travelling for. People often ask me what New Zealand food actually is, and I never have a tidy answer. France has a cuisine. So does Italy, so does Japan.…
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Cape Tribulation is the one place on this whole Australia trip, Sydney to Tasmania to Melbourne to Cairns and back, where two World Heritage sites meet: the Daintree, widely considered the world’s oldest rainforest at…
I’d already seen this beach before I ever set foot on it. A jetty reaching out into a bay, recognisable enough from 30,000 feet that I named it in a caption weeks before I could…