I am very much a city person but there is something about desert landscapes that appeals to me. It wasn’t always that way. I grew up on the edge of the Australian Outback so I thought I had my quota of the desert for one lifetime. Having travelled overseas and returned as an adult I […]
The wonder that is Petra, and the best time to see The Treasury
Petra is one of those places that I knew of but didn’t know a lot about. Most people (at least from my generation) would know Petra from the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, but kids of my generation were certainly not taught much about this part of the world in school (or maybe […]
Floating in the Dead Sea – Jordan
For as long as I have been listening to travellers tell tales about travel, floating on the water of the Dead Sea in Jordan (or Israel) always seems to make the list of things to do in ones life time. I can now say that having floated in/on the Dead Sea, it is one of […]
