Because travel is better with two - By writer/editor/photographer Melanie Wynne
Please forgive me for being remiss, dear readers: I’ve known about Mr & Mrs Smith for years, but have neglected to share until now.
Allow me to remedy my oversight and introduce you to some truly spectacular couple-friendly ”hotel porn” from around the world.
My latest article for BootsnAll.com takes five destinations/travel experiences that are known for hefty price tags and shows you how to visit/have them at a relative discount.
If you’re both interested in touring the Galapagos Islands, relaxing in French Polynesia or Mexico’s Riviera Maya, taking an African safari, or exploring Antarctica for yourselves, this here’s the resource for you:
Exotic Destinations on a Budget: How to Experience the Trip of a Lifetime for Less
Please enjoy reading — and trip-planning!
Imagine a modern house that’s far more fabulous than your own abode. (Go ahead, I’ll wait.)
Set it near the bottom edge of the Earth, above a dense forest and beside a remote and turquoise ocean. Fill it with art, wine and cozy fabrics made by the neighbors, and invite kind people to cater to your every whim. Put in a button to heat your floors and a long boardwalk that leads to a table for two by the sea, and call it a day.
Welcome, my friends, to the Southern Ocean Lodge.
Remarkable Rocks, Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island was initially described to me as ‘Australia’s Galapagos.’
So naturally, my first question was:
“When do we go?” [Read more...]
Oliver the joey, the ideal (portable) traveling companion
Along the central coast of South Australia, the Eyre Peninsula (pronounced “air”) is full of unique adventures. Just a short flight, bus, ferry or coach from Adelaide, you can snorkel with tuna, sail an opal-green bay beside dolphins and seals, drive up and over pristine sand dunes, and even cuddle a baby kangaroo.
(Good luck, by the way, ripping yourselves away from that last one.)
Full of sleepy towns, conservation parks and 2,000 kilometers of coastline, the Eyre is an easy escape to a lot of breathing room. I hear “peninsula” and think “long weekend,” but you could easily spend a week or more here. For instance, the Eyre’s far northwestern Nullarbor Plain and its coastal Great Australian Bight Marine Park could take a couple of days just on their own; the latter is ground zero for Southern Right whale watching from May through October.
If you have just a day or two to devote to the Eyre, it’s best to stick to just one area — like the peninsula’s southern tip.
