ON a recent travel tour to the US, an elderly couple travelled from the west coast to ending in New York on the West Coast.  It lasted for 4 ½ weeks.  They had an exceptional time.  What made it that much better, they didn’t get sick once unlike many of the older pensioners on the trip.  Most had some form of gastro for several days.  They put it down to use the Aqua Safe Bottle+.  The AquaSafeBottle takes out not only bacteria to 99.9999% it also takes out protozoa’s to 99.9999% and viruses to 99.99%. Read More...

Here are some useful travel tips for traveling around Europe on the cheap. Read More...

When back packing around Europe for four months, as helpful my lonely planet was I found that the best advise came from fellow travellers. So thought I’d pass on my tips when considering off beat places to stay. I have written about some of my favourite places that are not exactly main cities visited by all of the tourists and contiki groups…I hope you find it useful.  Read More...

I have made many long road trips with my (then) three young children when they were all pre-schoolers. The drive that we did regularly was around 650km’s, this was to visit my family during school holidays. I built up a bit of experience, and hope the following might offer some good tips. Read More...

Bush Walking, not to plan.
I am married to a Scout Leader, I however, have never made any type of claim to feeling at home in the bush. In fact, I am an “out and proud” 5 Star accommodation kinda girl. Read More...

I have a business trip to Pakistan in a couple of weeks and have learnt a lot about the paper work and process needed for your business visa. Read More...

When choosing the right travel insurance for yourself, there are many questions that you need to ask, and these questions will change depending on the location and the purpose of the trip, time away etc. Read More...

How could a Travel Gadget save your life?  Drinking contaminated water can in the worst case be fatal and at best you can be ill for a day or so with gastro. It is so easy to drink contaminated water.  In most cases, you are not able to see the harmful bacteria or protozoa’s (they are the mean one that give you Giardia and Crypto).  They are invisible.   Read More...