You can follow a new adventure today, right now, without getting out of bed. (If you happen be sitting in bed with your laptop on your lap). That amazing invention, Google Earth, will let you wander highways and by-ways all over the world. Discover new things, plan your next road trip once we get … [Read more...]

Right now I am using my locked-down time to finish writing an eBook called Great British Road Trips. But I am beginning to wonder if it's a waste of time. Will anyone be travelling soon? One thing is for sure, when we emerge from this crazy pandemic-panicked world the travel industry will … [Read more...]

Who likes being "processed" at the airport before departure? Thought so. No-one! Oh, Ok - that kid down the back making his first flight. For the rest of us it's a necessary evil. The rush to get ready. The scramble to get to the airport. Check-in procedures. Security. Don't even talk about … [Read more...]

You’re on an Australian road trip. You’ve got the sunshine beating down onto the dashboard and you’re heading for the ocean. Your surfboard is in the back and you’ve just a few bikinis and beers stashed into a weekend bag. But, you don’t need much, just the company of your friend in the passenger … [Read more...]

Travel plans on hold? Join the club. Dreaming of road trips to great new destinations may well be a sanity saver for those of us around the world in locked-down isolation. As recently as three weeks ago I was holding on to the (rapidly fading) hope that the Lady Driver and I would be on our … [Read more...]

So you booked your travel arrangements through an on-line aggregator, one of the many digital travel agencies. Now that you have had to cancel everything, how did that work out for you? Cheap is not always cheap, as many people are presently finding out. A lesson I learned a good while back is … [Read more...]

The Ghan. Strange name for a train, yes? More about that later. But this oddly named railway journey is one of the great rail expeditions in the world. It’s a Sunday afternoon after an excellent on-board lunch and I’m sitting back in my little cabin on The Ghan watching the lush green fields of … [Read more...]

A bit of the Bard to begin and a rollicking railroad ride at the end, with one of New Zealand’s most isolated villages, reveling in a jaw-breaker of a name, Whangamomona, in between. The Forgotten Highway is worth discovering. State Highway 43, a 151km road from coastal Stratford through the … [Read more...]