Posts tagged ‘travel’

Smiles from the ‘Hapi Isles’

The Solomon Islands is also called the “Hapi Isles”. It doesn’t take much of a guess to work out what the pidgin word “hapi” means in…

Sunrise in the Solomons

Streams of golden sunlight falling on my face woke me on my second morning in the Solomon Islands. I scrambled out of bed, grabbed my camera…

Despite being a huge crime fiction fan, it had been many years since I’d read an Agatha Christie novel. That changed on a visit to Devon,…

As 2015 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on all the wonderful places I’ve been during the year. Many of my travels weren’t too…

Mangoes are among my favourite fruit, and I can’t wait until summer’s here and I can sink my teeth into that delicious golden flesh again. In…

Waking in a strange bed is nothing new for me. Hotels come and go, and some of the more standard ones become indistinguishable from each other…

The Staircase to the Moon is one of nature’s marvels, and one of the sights that many people plan their visit to Broome around. I didn’t…

I learned a new word while I was in Broome: pindan. It’s the word the Indigenous Bardi people of this area use to describe their country.…

Travellers hate tourist traps. And I was a bit afraid that I was headed for one. In the Western Australia pearling town of Broome, it’s hard…

For those of us who live on the east coast of Australia, seeing the sun sink into the Indian Ocean is usually a highlight of a…