The Compleat Traveller

... In Greece, roadside memorials to accident victims take the form of miniature churches, which tend to be adorned with candles, an i...

~ Interesting feature in the April 19, 2010 issue of New York Magazine about the top 50 most livable New York neighbourhoods . I was parti...

~ In a previous entry ( My New York Marathon ), I wrote about my first full day walking from Greenpoint, Brooklyn across the Williamsburg Br...

~ The weather for the first full day of my New York adventure promised to be cloudy but fine (and bloody freezing). And just so you are not...

~ So there we were, a plane load of passengers and crew on a United Airlines flight, flying in to New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, late ...

~ Maybe it was the timing of my trip to New York City , or maybe it’s always like that, but it did seem to rain a lot. In terms of timing, I...

~ One of the best online resources for planning any trip is the powerhouse that is Google , and the innovations that have come out of that c...

~ One of the real pleasures of my two month stay in New York City during 2008, was the wonderful encounters with musicians playing on the s...

~ This is an extended review of an earlier one I posted to the Trip Adviser web site on April 28, 2008. Five weeks into my New York stay, I...

~ This is the second of a two part extended review of the Greenpoint, YMCA in Brooklyn, New York. Click here to read the first part... The ...

~ This is the first of a two part extended review of the Greenpoint, YMCA in Brooklyn, New York. You can read Part 2 here... The original, ...

~ I recently found an online article titled Cheap Tricks For A Great Trip by Herald Sun writer, Donna Coutts, worth reading, and thought I’...