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 […]
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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 […]
Travel blogging tips from the experts: Go, See, Write
This week’s travel blogging tips article features Michael Hodson, author of travel blog Go, See, Write. Michael has been blogging for nearly four years – practically forever in blogging terms. When not blogging or travelling, he splits his time carefully between smoking cigars, watching Casablanca and playing Bocce on his full size court. Michael’s site […]
Photo theme – holes
Following the positive reception of one of my shots on the site’s Facebook page, I was inspired to continue the theme I started there with a selection of shots on the subject of holes. By holes, I don’t mean holes in the ground, although I do have some shots like that, instead I mean […]
The awesome problem
I have a problem. Well, it’s not really a problem. Ok, it’s a bit of a problem. The thing is, I’ve been travelling for a while. But even when I started travelling, the problem raised its ugly head. Allow me to explain. I was in Australia, with my travelling buddy at the time. We had […]
Carrots, waterfalls and Gollum
I have been doing my homework recently on this whole blogging thing, with particular focus on the mystical world of SEO. SEO, for those of you not in the know (turns out I can rhyme too), is the art of optimising a site so that it is friendly to search engines, and by search engines, […]
Travel blogging tips from the experts: As We Travel
Another travelling couple take centre stage for this weeks travel blogging tips interview: Nathan and Sofia of travel blog aswetravel.com. Nathan and Sofia have maintained a travel blog under various guises for a number of years now, with aswetravel.com launched a year ago. The main focus of the blog is to provide travel tips for […]