In today’s travel blogging tips article I am delighted to be interviewing Barbara Weibel, author of travel blog Hole in the Donut World Travel. Barbara is a travel blogger who has made travelling her life, and her travel blog generates sufficient income to fund this dream – the aspiration of many a blogger. Barbara focuses […]
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The lost world highway
There are many magnificent highways to drive in the world, but I would argue that New Zealand’s oldest touring route, the Lost World highway, has one of the best names of the lot. Just the idea of a highway passing through a lost world conjures up images of immense T-Rex ploughing through jungles, sauropods hanging […]
Maori Mountain Myths
New Zealand’s north island is not as blessed as the south island when it comes to mountains. The southern alps alone are home to around thirty peaks which rise in excess of 3000 metres – only Mount Ruapehu on the north island comes close – and even he is short by 300 metres, coming in […]
Travel: my selfish pursuit
Travel is a rather selfish activity. By that, I don’t mean that travel is turning me into a people hating world destroying recluse. No, what I mean is that travel is something that really focuses on being of benefit to the individual doing the travel, in this case me, and no-one else. Allow me to […]
Travel blogging tips from the experts: Bacon is Magic
In today’s travel blogging tips article I am delighted to be featuring Ayngelina Brogan, author of the wonderfully titled blog: Bacon is Magic. Currently travelling in Latin America, on a journey that has lasted almost a year, Ayngelina set off with the intention of finding out more about herself and her life. Nearly a year […]
More lakes and mountains in Tongariro
Our time in the Tongariro National Park – the spectacular dual world heritage site on New Zealand’s North Island – is dwindling to an end. The four months we’ve spent here have been fabulous, and now that the end is in sight, with a new adventure on the way (more on that in a later […]
How to increase your Alexa rank
Alexa is a widely used metric for measuring a website’s popularity. Websites are assigned a score, which starts at 1 for the most popular (currently Google), and then increases in number as sites are deemed to be less popular. Today, in one of my rare technology themed posts, I’m going to share some thoughts and […]
Travel blogging tips from the experts: Traveling Canucks
Today, in the tenth (I know, how did we get to ten already!) post in the series where I probe the minds of experienced and knowledgeable travel bloggers for their travel blogging tips, I am delighted to be interviewing Cam and Nicole, better known as the Traveling Canucks. Hailing, as you can probably tell by […]
Encountering racism on the road
The thing about travel is the wealth of experiences that accompany it. We meet new people, see new sights… and are exposed to all manner of different world views. Some of these world views don’t quite gel with our own. Some jar. And some are just plain wrong. This was the case when travelling around […]
Reasons not to travel
I’ve been travelling since 2009, but it took me a while to get round to getting started on the long term travelling jaunt – there were always good reasons not to travel. It was always something I wanted to do, but at a point in the future when the time seemed “right”. So I would […]