This weeks travel blogging tips interview features two awesome travellers: Caroline and Craig Makepeace, authors of travel site yTravelBlog. Craig and Caz, originally from Australia, have spent oodles of time travelling, between them covering over 35 countries in ten years on the road. Now they have returned to Australia, where they have a daughter, and […]
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Caves and glow-worms
New Zealand is well known for its caves. Perhaps the best known of these are the Waitomo Caves, where you can abseil, black water raft and peer at mystically glowing glow worms until your head explodes with contentment. These caves are where most visitors to New Zealand get their caving fix. Me being me however, […]
Photo theme – clouds
Ah, clouds. Giant fluffy bits of candy floss floating leisurely in a perfect sky. Or rain filled destroyers of beach holidays. However you feel about clouds, they pretty much always manage to provide ample opportunity for photography, from sunny days to sunsets, thunderstorms to odd shapes. Here are a few of my more favourite cloud […]
What is a DSLR Camera in Photography – Everything you need to know!
For many people, the decision to buy a DSLR camera is the point where they start to take their photography a little bit more seriously. In this article, I’m going to tell you first of all what a DSLR camera is in photography terms, followed by the reasons you might want to consider purchasing one, […]
Travel blogging tips from the experts: foXnoMad
This weeks travel blogging tips article features Anil, author of tech-centric travel blog foXnoMad.com. As well as providing excellent travel advice, Anil publishes all sorts of information about travelling with technology. On top of running foXnoMad Anil also finds the time to run three other sites of a travel themed nature, including one focusing on […]
Why you should travel with the WHV
Let’s face it, travelling can be expensive. Travel in developed countries even more so. Once you’ve added up the transport, the insurance, the food, the accommodation – well, the number at the end can be pretty scary. Even when travelling on a serious budget, if you want to see everything, you’re still going to end […]
Photo theme – fire
Ah, fire. What a wonderful element. (I know, it’s not an element. Actually, i have no idea what it is. Do enlighten me if you know. Anyway.) You can set stuff on it, you can peer at it, you can warm yourself near it. Coals can be heated up, and food can be cooked over […]
The “authentic” travel myth
Today, I’m going to tackle the idea of “authentic” travel. The forms that this take vary, from attempting to see things that no-one else has, to getting some kind of cultural insight, to braving hardships in the name of a more “real” experience. And I’m going to explain why I don’t think it exists. This […]
Getting to grips with Kiwi beer
Regular readers (well, two of them at least) have been badgering me for some time to get onto the serious subject of New Zealand’s beer situation. For them, tales of walks and photos of bubbling mud pools hold little interest. No, they read the site with the vain hope that I might get round to […]
Travel blogging tips from the experts: Nomadic Matt
Today in my ongoing series of travel blogging articles I am interviewing Matt Kepnes – better known as Nomadic Matt – author of the hugely popular travel blog nomadicmatt.com. Matt has achieved the goal towards which many travel bloggers aspire – that of turning his travel blogging from a hobby into a full time profession. Today […]