“Hello, what’s your name?” asks a small voice behind my left hip. I turn around to see a young girl of about nine years old beaming up at me, her large brown eyes twinkling with curiosity. Although she only knows a few practiced phrases in English, she is not dressed in the way I...
I’ve spent many evenings in tents, like most of you probably have, but in Jordan I spent an evening in a Bedouin tent, which is much different. I was staying off the grid in a fantastic eco hotel, the Feynan Ecolodge, in the desert of the Dana Biosphere Reserve, near the border with Israel....
It was my first trip to the Middle East this spring and I wasn’t sure what to expect. So I called upon some of my worldly friends who had been to Jordan for travel advice. Here are some of my favourites and whether I found the advice to be true. “Seriously, do not try...
After reading David Stanley’s Moon guide to Fiji, I knew the quality of his other recently released guidebook, the Moon Travel Guide to Tahiti, would be of the same quality. These small, thick books are full of firsthand travel tips that make for easy planning before you leave, as well as vital guidance when...
At first glance, the cover image to Moon Travel Guides’ Fiji guidebook had me scratching my head: of all the gorgeous photos featuring the islands, a close up of a blue and yellow damselfish with red gorgonian coral in the background seemed a bit odd. But as soon as I opened the first 24...
The train ride from Sighisoara to Bucharest*, Romania added some spice to my train travels. I had a Eurail Pass and had travelled from Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague and Vienna through to Sopron and Budapest in Hungary, and finally Sighisoara in Romania. All of the previous train rides were uneventful, with on-time departures, friendly and helpful...
I went to the small medieval town of Sighisoara, one of the best preserved in Europe, knowing that Vlad Tepes (aka. Vlad the Impaler) was born here. (His father’s name was Vlad Dracul.) This is the ruler who Bram Stroker modelled Vlad Dracula after. Not only that, but the house he was born in (in...
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