by Nicholas Bowditch

Daylight broke on an appropriately dismal day in Krakow,
Poland. Against the backdrop of baroque style churches, vast plazas
littered with an equal mix of cafes and pigeons, soft cool rain feel
impossibly from an overcast yet cloudless sky.

It was as if the sun...

Sydney can be a very expensive city. You can easily spend $100 a day or more as a visitor. But it doesn't have to be that way.

I
am about to give you loads of great things to do in this vibrant city
that will fill your days but not empty your pockets. I have put
together a list of Sydney's top 15 attractions...

If
you asked one hundred different Australians what the ten best beaches
in their country was, you could potentially get 1000 different answers.

Australia has a coastline of almost 40,000kms...

If
you asked one hundred different Australians what the ten best beaches
in their country was, you could potentially get 1000 different answers.

Australia has a coastline of almost 40,000kms...

OK well not always uncrowded but certainly less people in the line-up than most equivalent breaks in Australia, USA or Asia.

Central
America has been growing steadily as a surfing destination for some
time now and the reasons are pretty simple: exotic...

“When you get to Brugge, you HAVE to go to this hostel my brother’s flatmate’s girlfriend stayed at…”

“Geez don’t stay at that hostel when you are in Budapest, the night manager was SO RUDE to me when I stayed there in 1993…”

“There’s this hostel kind of near the old town …...

"Tourists don't know where they've been,travellers don't know where they're going."Paul Theroux

A
good mate of mine is a travel snob. I don't mean he only flies first
class and only stays in five star hotels - quite the opposite. His
snobbery is in the fact that he would NEVER do those...