Over the past decade, I’ve travelled almost non-stop to more than 35 countries and in that time amassed a hearty collection of adventures and misadventures. If you’re in the mood for some armchair travel or you’re looking for inspiration for your next trip, check out these travel tales.
My friend Rodrigo’s doorman lives in Vidigal favela in Rio de Janeiro. He told us it was safe to traverse the favela, with drone and SLR camera equipment, enroute to the climb up Dois Irmãos mountain, which overlooks Leblon and Ipanema beaches. This is the story of our morning including drone footage and sick photos.
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Towering outside Berlin in the Grunerwald forest is Teufelsberg, a 120m manmade mountain built from the rubble of World War 2. To understand how it got there, and its subsequent role as a US spy station in the Cold War, you need to understand some of Berlin’s uniquely messed-up history.
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I haven’t been snowboarding in a while, because I’m Australian and the snow here is pretty expensive and not that great. Of course, things get more tempting when a) there’s a big powder dump and b) I have a new Phantom 4 drone which needs to be flown. This video showcases some of the awesome scenery you can see and ski in the Australian Snowy Mountains, in and around Jindabyne and Thredbo resort. Enjoy.
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There’s something funny about me and cruises. They should suck, but somehow I always end up having a good time.
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As it turns out, I became a dad a couple weeks earlier than expected.
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Bassinets. Bouncers. Ladies walking with prams. Big tacky cars with baby signs. Baby formula in supermarket aisles. Debates about breastfeeding in public and government paid parental leave. These were all things that I previously filtered out of my everyday conscious as background noise. Now another world has opened up before me.
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It wasn’t until 20-something party-travel writer Vince Gibbs was getting sick of the European party scene, and travelling up the coast of Portugal, that he thought about giving the beers a rest and waxing up a stick. The results were epic. Here’s how you can do it too.
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Sabina Trojanova is a terrific writer who blogs over at girlvsglobe.com. In this piece, she visits a legal advice centre for abused women and a temporary shelter for women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as part of an EU development project.
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I watch the sun set over the American South from my sleeper compartment. The train ploughs headlong into the night, and the clickety-clack of the tracks is hypnotic. I will myself not to fall asleep, because I know that Memphis is fast approaching.
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50-something traveller and photographic expert Rob Gibbs reckons roadtrips are necessary to the very essence of his soul. One of his US favourites is the Pacific Coast Highway in California- he’s done it 3 times for Pete’s sake!
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