A Snowy Adventure with My Kids – the Kedarkantha Trek

Coming from a house that took every holiday season as an opportunity for an offbeat adventure, travel has always been in my blood. I'm from Gurgaon, so road tripping and trekking in Uttarakhand and...

Top 10 Things to See & Do at Rottnest Island, Western Australia

Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh gave this beautiful island its name in 1696. He mistook the native animals, the quokkas, here for rats and named it Rottnest, meaning 'rats nest' in Dutch. The...

Diving at the Poor Knights Islands

The Poor Knights Islands are a Marine Reserve and Nature Reserve about 20km off the Tutukaka Coast in Northland, and they are internationally renowned as one of the premium dive destinations...

Our Roman Holiday: 3 - 7 Day Itinerary

Rome has a-million-and-one things to do AND, unless you plan to live there for a year, there's no way you can see all of it. So, here's my "must-do" itinerary - we did it in 3-ish days (can...

A Guide to Ethical Dolphin Watching

Wildlife watching experiences are top on the list of things to pursue for many who travel the world. Sadly, a lot of land and marine wildlife is threatened by human activities. Whether it's spotting...

Setting Up a Home Base near Rome, Italy for Language Immersion Travel

I am so excited to share considerations, planning, and lessons-learned from setting up our home base fo our 10-week language-immersion nella bella Italia. If I could do most of this on my own with...