My award ticket to Australia was definitely not for the faint of heart – it consisted of four flights, three airlines, thirty hours flying time and two hotels. I left on Tuesday night and arrived in Melbourne on Saturday (you miss a day over the international date line). The upside […]
Arriving in Melbourne after my epic journey Philadelphia – Chicago – Seoul – Singapore, I just wanted to get to the hotel, it was my finish line and would signal that my vacation had begun. The Melbourne airport has a shuttle bus for $16 AUS that would take me to […]
Failing miserably at the Indie30 blogging challenge (I’m swamped with two weeks of prompts to work on), it’s very timely that the FriFotos theme is RELAX. So in the spirit of multi-tasking the two different hashtags #Indie30 and #FriFotos, I’m going to relax a bit but showing photos of places […]
The tweet from Accor Hotels said “retweet this to win a 2 night stay in Sydney”, well, who am I not to comply with a directive like that? So retweet I did as it was easy enough to do – no forms to complete, no log in or granting access […]
I’ve never climbed a tree, a fence or the monkey bars in my childhood. As a kid in the city, I walked everywhere and played “Freedom” which involved running like crazy to avoid being caught. Climbing a bridge was never something I thought possible but for my birthday visit to […]
If you were to walk into most Pennsylvania state controlled liquor stores, the “Australian” wine section is about 90% Yellow Tail. While the “premium section” has a few Australian wines, you can imagine how exciting it has been over the years to visit wineries in Australia on my holidays. My […]
As I look back on the Australia trip, the stars seemed to align for my day on The Great Ocean Road (the GOR) – the weather began sunny and bright on the cool side. When I was researching “things to do in Melbourne”, driving The Great Ocean Road was at […]
I knew it was wrong but I couldn’t stop myself, my body was craving chocolate at 9 a.m., so there I was eating pretzel M&Ms with my breakfast. My body had no clue what time zone it was in and how long we were staying here as for almost two […]
I successfully booked an award air ticket last week to Australia but it was literally exhausting (just thinking about it is making me tired). I spent at least ten hours (or more) trying to figure out the various parts of the puzzle to put together the journey. If you are […]