The Friday Photo: The Leang-Leang Caves
Maybe 17,000 years ago, maybe 40,000 years ago, someone scrambled up to the wall of this cave and left his handprint. It’s a large hand...
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Art and Alchemy in Florence
It would be remiss to visit Florence without: a) eating a steak as big as your head b) doing the art thang, c) crossing the...
The Van Gogh Museum: Totally Worth It…
You don’t think of Vincent Van Gogh – well, I don’t, anyway – as the type of chap to make art for a nursery. But...
Top 10 Things to Do in Egypt for Kids
Egypt doesn’t necessarily spring to mind as a place to visit with children, which is weird given how scarily obsessed some kids can become with...
Big Dreams, Big Guns and Bad Taxidermy
For sheer insanity and awe-inspiring self-belief, Moussa Castle has to rank pretty high in the fields of all human endeavour. It’s like a peculiarly Lebanese...
Seven Things That Make Cairo Worth the Hassle
Now, it is easy to whinge about Cairo – and, lord knows, I have! Frankly, as a visibly foreign female visitor, tourist Cairo makes the...
The Friday Photo: Terracotta Underworld
Lined up as if for battle, on soil that still covers 8000 or so of their comrades, the Terracotta Warriors, like Angkor Wat, Uluru and...
The Craziest Town on the Planet?
Arriving in Coober Pedy, in the South Australian outback, is like landing on another planet. Not just because the place has stood in for Mars...
Our World School: An End of Year Report
For anyone planning longterm travel with kids, anyone who would like to travel and is delaying having kids to do so, or any parents who...