The best time to cycle across the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco (0)
1/28/10 •
City breaks often seem to be more about sight-seeing and eating rather than enjoying the outdoors. San Francisco though, is a city which very much embraces its outdoors and it is well worth exploring its parks. Renting a bike will allow you to cover more ground. And when the ground covered just happens to be [...]
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The best time for a public art inspired tour of Chicago (1)
1/18/10 •
You can always pick the tourists in Chicago, standing on the footpath, craning their necks up at the amazing buildings around them. The classic buildings include the quirky Marina City towers or the straight-out-of-a-comic-strip Tribune building, now joined by newcomers such as the Trump tower. The best way to see these monuments to innovation and [...]
The best time to dive the Bay Islands, Honduras (3)
1/11/10 •
The waters off the Bay Islands shelter the second largest reef system in the world, but it’s much cheaper to see it here than in Belize. For years the Bay Islands held the title of cheapest place in the world for scuba certification. This is slowly being encroached upon by Nicaragua however the islands remain [...]
The best time to visit the penguins at Phillip Island (6)
1/07/10 •
On a slow news week in Melbourne, more than one newspaper announced Miley Cyrus spent NYE at Phillip Island. It’s not a typical island resort for Hollywood starlets, and probably not the best place to come for celebrity spotting. That said, it does have it’s own red carpet style walk every night, which plenty of [...]
The best time to hike the Kokoda trail in Papua New Guinea (2)
1/04/10 •
For anyone with an interest in the history of WWII, the Kokoda campaign is significant. For anyone interested in trekking, the Kokoda trail is a rugged mountainous challenge of great beauty. For any one interested in off the beaten track destinations, Papua New Guinea is a place that will challenge and surprise you. Wartime History [...]
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