The Compleat Traveller

Here’s  one for the booklovers. This image crossed my ‘desk’ via my Facebook page, and not only did I have to check out the free boo...

The Ocean Center Building at 110 West Ocean Boulevard On the penultimate day of my 2012 visit to America, I went to Long Beach, Calif...

Ron Finley. Photo: James Duncan Davidson ~ Artist and designer Ron Finley could not help but notice what was going on in his backyard...

Image courtesy of hotel website ~ I checked into the Value Inn Worldwide hotel in Los Angeles on Monday, July 30, 2012, after an 18 ho...

Click image to view larger size  So here I am, still jetlagged and feeling muddleheaded, adjusting once again to being back in Adel...

~ Image: The tide is clearly out in this image of a canal at Venice Beach , Los Angeles . Still suffering from the effects of jet lag ( y...

~ International travel can be quite confusing to the uninitiated. Last night, Tuesday, I uploaded a blog post from Auckland , New Zealand . ...

It's 7.30pm New Zealand time as I write this (5.00pm in Adelaide). I've just completed the first leg of my trip around the world - A...

~ Well, yes – and no. Meet my travelling companion, Livingstone, named in honour of the Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone ...

With around 60 hours to go before I jet off on the first leg of my round the world trip, I have spent most of the past few days (since my re...

~ Happy New Year! Strange isn't it? It is midday on January 1st, here in Adelaide as I write this (with a slightly befuddled head follow...

Click on image to enlarge At the beginning of June (in The Countdown Begins ), I wrote about my nascent plans for my next major overseas t...

~ Yesterday, I signed up for a ten week Spanish For Fun and Travel course at an Adelaide based institution, the WEA. The Workers' Educ...

~ Now this sounds like a real buzz – watching fireworks light the Fourth of July night sky in Los Angeles , while soaring 1000 feet above th...

~ So here’s a question for you. If you had $100,000 and six months to spend it on your dream vacation, where would you go, and what would yo...