My First AFL Game!

AFL -> Australian Rules Football. It’s not a sport I know a great deal about, other…

Drinking Kava in Vanuatu

Vanuatu is not a country noted for its beer. It has Tusker, a generic lager, which…

Five Days On Gaua

My itinerary had me spending just under 4 weeks in Vanuatu, so obviously this meant I…

Malekula Island – An overview

When I was researching places to visit in Vanuatu, the island of Malekula stood out as…

Beer in the USA

People on Twitter have always asked me ‘Why am I not a beer blogger?’, given that…

Day Trip To Plovdiv

I spent two nights in Sofia, but while I was there I took a day trip…

24 Hours in Sofia

“Our flight time will be about 2½ hours, thanks to a strong tailwind. The current weather…

Two days in Eastern Bosnia

As international borders go, the one between Serbia and Bosnia that I passed through around 2.30am…

Novi Sad in a few hours

Novi Sad is Serbia’s second biggest city, around 80km from Belgrade and the train takes about…

Belgrade – The White City

See, I’ve been to Belgrade now three times (I have a penpal there), and each time…

Laibach and think of Slovenia

Ahh, Laibach. But I’m not here referring to the Industrial/Experimental music group/culture founded in the late…

The Valleys

“The miner in the Rhondda, the coolie in Pekin / Men across the world who reap…