Author Archives: tawit

So here I am back in Brisbane international airport, safe and sound – well sort of. I am meant to be flying to Indonesia for work but the plane got sent back after electrical problems – sigh! Oh well, at …

Six weeks ago when I agreed to go hiking (or as they call it “tramping”) in New Zealand with my friend Helen, it was with a sense of trepidation. Helen spent 10 months hiking around various places in Europe in …

Spending the long weekend on North Stradbroke Island with the edge of Cyclone Oswald on your front deck is not your usual summer beach holiday. But staying in an apartment that overlooks the sight, smell and sense of the sea …

I am a single independent woman who spends an inordinate amount of time travelling for work and for fun – sailing, skiing, hiking and adventure. Through different places and meeting new people, I like to think   I’m a traveller …

Detox? My idea of detoxing is to take a break from alcohol for a few days. But at Living Valley Springs, a health retreat tucked into the hills behind Noosa in southeast Queensland, it is much more about helping the …

While the annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race attracts the most media attention in Australia, another race off the south Queensland coast attracts many more competitors lured by both the thrill of racing and the camaraderie. The 87 kilometre Bay …

It is an early spring morning in Jaipur and we are doing one of our favourite things in India – wandering the narrow market lanes, dodging fat cows and bargaining fiercely with sellers of marble figurines, brass cooking pots and …

Some say that sailing the waters of the northern Dodecanese in eastern Greece is not too dissimilar to sailing the Whitsunday Islands off coastal Queensland. And certainly, the waters are aquamarine, with the wind blowing in sudden gusts between the …