By Warren on January 30, 2011
The resilience of Australians has been so well documented in the aftermath of the Queensland floods, however the floods have also brought into focus another character attribute; geographical ignorance. I am lucky enough to be spending the weekend at Palm Cove, just outside Cairns, and the tourism industry is really doing it tough here, in [...]
Posted in Featured, General, Travel | Tagged North Queensland, Palm Covet |
By Warren on October 20, 2010
San Francisco has the now dated reputation of being the city of ‘free love, of ‘flower power’ and of alternative lifestyle. As an Australian visiting for the first time it is these ideologies from the 1960s and images of cable cars, the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz that filled my expectations. To most Americans, particularly [...]
Posted in Featured, North America, Travel | Tagged san francisco |
By Warren on September 3, 2010
Of all the cities I have been too in the world, New York is the one that immediately excites from the time you arrive. Anywhere that has as many cultural and urban icons as New York will have you looking around for that next familiar site you have seen so many times in the media, [...]
Posted in North America, Travel | Tagged New York, NYC, Top of the Rock |
By Warren on August 14, 2010
I’ve been very lucky through a mixture of holidays and business to travel in the last two years to the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Italy, Norfolk Island and particularly this year to the United States, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand. Given this site wasn’t active at the time of these trips, I [...]
Posted in North America | Tagged Los Angeles |