• Google Maps….you rock!  I wrote out the directions from suburban Newcastle, through the western suburbs of Sydney and into Wollongong (well Port Kembla to be precise) and you didn’t let me down.  There were a couple of times when I…

  • Well what can I say, I swam with a dolphin this morning…..woohoo!  I found about Dolphin Magic in Coffs several years ago and besides just being in the water and patting the dolphin I also got a foot push,  a…

  • Well, I’ve been back a week and half now and have been suffering from jet lag, post holiday depression and the heat and it’s time to wrap up the blog for this trip.  Here’s a few of the best and…

  • Having been in very clean Helsinki and Stockholm and then to the pristine Lapland of the respective countries, Hong Kong is such an assault on the senses.  Okay, mainland China is probably worse and Kathmandu is pretty bad but you…

  • The dog sledding was done on New Year’s Eve day so I got back from that and had a couple of hours to chillax before dinner. I booked my tour through Discover the World UK and they organize charter flight…

  • I was transferred from the airport to the Ice Hotel, which is incredible.  As I was staying in one of the cold rooms, I was directed to the Dressing Room Reception where we are given lockers to store our bags…

  • My flight from Kemi left an hour late and as I had an 8am flight the next morning, I’d booked into the Hilton Hotel at the airport.  The room was great and I was disappointed that I was leaving so…

  • The flight to Kemi was just under 1.5 hours in a 70 seater prop plane but the views were amazing.  Massive amounts of snow everywhere.  It too a while to work out that under all that snow are lakes and…

  • I’m sitting at the airport waiting for my flight to Kemi for Christmas and my date with Santa.  After the fiasco in Paris, I was paranoid about getting to the airport on time and even though the Finnair bus goes…