by Traveler | Dec 2, 2025 | Travel
If you have ever looked at a map of the South Island and wondered where the scenery turns from beautiful to completely unreal, the answer is the Southern Lakes. Queenstown might be the draw card that brings you to the Southern Lakes, but let it also be the launchpad...
by Traveler | Nov 30, 2025 | Travel
CategoriesEurope, France TagsAvenue de l’Opera, Baron Haussmann, Charles Garnier, Farnborough, Felice Orsini, France, French Republic, Grand Foyer, Is this Paris’s most beautiful building, Napolean III, Palais Garnier, Palais Garnier Opera House, Paris, Pavillon...
by Traveler | Nov 29, 2025 | Travel
A haven for locals and visitors for generations, The King’s Arms takes centre stage in the Lake District village of Hawkshead. The whitewashed walls of this 17th-century coaching inn are a picture postcard scene, whatever the Cumbrian weather happens to throw at you....
by Traveler | Nov 29, 2025 | Travel
Explore the Liverpool Maritime Museum, home to powerful Titanic and Lusitania stories, ship models, and exhibits that reveal Liverpool’s rich maritime history. The Liverpool Maritime Museum, located inside the iconic Royal Albert Dock, is one of the most fascinating...
by Traveler | Nov 27, 2025 | Travel
On the shores of New Zealand’s fourth largest lake, surrounded by the Southern Alps and with a national park almost at the end of the street, Wānaka looks like a classic vacation town. In practice, it works far better as a base – somewhere you unpack once and then...
by Traveler | Nov 27, 2025 | Travel
There is this moment, right after the house goes dark, where everything feels oddly quiet. The fridge stops humming. The WiFi drops. The lights flick off with that tiny little click. You stand there for a second thinking, OK, so this is happening. Then someone calls...
by Traveler | Nov 26, 2025 | Travel
After a heady day in the wild African bush, beach or bustling city, there is something irresistibly indulgent about cooling off in a gorgeous swimming pool – or chilling with a glass of bubbles in a lovely hot tub or jacuzzi under the stars by night. In Africa, there...
by Traveler | Nov 23, 2025 | Travel
CategoriesEurope Tagsa truly tragic streetlamp, Chrysler Building, City of Light, Construction of the Eiffel Tower, Designing the Eiffel Tower, Eiffel, Eiffel Tower, Eiffel Tower Design, Gustave Eiffel, hole-riddled suppository, Iconic monument, ridiculous chimney,...
by Traveler | Nov 19, 2025 | Travel
Fall in Kelowna can’t quite make up its mind.One day it’s crisp and cool, with mist hanging over Okanagan Lake, and the next it’s warm enough for shorts and an iced coffee on a patio.It’s a season made for layers and for testing the kind of clothing that can handle...
by Traveler | Nov 19, 2025 | Travel
After more than twenty years of travel across forty plus countries, we’ve learned that communication problems aren’t rare. They’re almost guaranteed.From misheard announcements to medical surprises to long conversations with guides, the moments where language matters...
