For Flightless Dave, Amsterdam has held enough attractions for a 1 month layover… but what lies ahead on the road North into winter?
When you’ve seen your thousandth hieroglyph, there are easeful days of bronzing on the deck, fresh and indulgent cuisine and slow travel to look forward to
Flightless Dave ponders the meaning of it all in between excellent beer, new places and hidden secrets… well, he IS in Amsterdam still!
The five of us were entirely surprised that a week isn’t enough to explore tiny Swaziland. The reed dance, the decadent king, the corruption of courtiers and royals: all this is true. But Swaziland, beyond the headlines and the waterfalls and the game, is memorable for its safety, its outstanding arts and crafting industry, and the warmth of Swazi people
Wandering Amsterdam, Flightless Dave doesn’t get lost so much as find some new things to ponder and some old sights to revisit.
At the 2013 Zimbabwean International Travel Exchange in London, a panel promoting tourism in the country reassured those concerned that rumours of Disney rides coming to Victoria Falls were not true and insisted Zimbabwe is safe for visitors.
Was a time South Africans were everywhere you looked but Flightless Dave is experiencing a dearth of his own kind on the road in Europe….
Forget the movie, Bruges is far from hell. Unless of course you hate chocolate, beer, buildings and canals!
Sandy Cadiz-Smith loses her heart to a Sicilian jewel perched high on a hill
Champagne is a wonderful ting. Not even a series of train rides and rain can put me off. In fact, this is a long list of train rides, with more to come…
TNT Multimedia, publisher of popular travellers’ magazine TNT Magazine, has been put into administration.
London based South Africans Jeremy Bortz (cricket writer for TheSouthAfrican.com) and Dylan Burt and fellow adventurous friends Mark Moloney from England and Adam Corcoran of Australia drove from the British capital to Ulaanbaatar as part of the Mongol Rally.
Ethiopia is ancient, but it has quite a bit to teach the rest of Africa about fostering and refining the best in one’s own culture. For food, for architecture, and for a deep, rich and accessible history, touch down in Addis Abeba when next you fly South
Traveling from Cadaques in Spain to Le Dorat in France by bus and train, Flightless Dave wonders at the marvels of a working rail system!
Do Christmas the Aussie way and experience beautiful beaches, kangaroos, and seafood barbecues!
John Burke spends a leisurely few days exploring the picture postcard attractions of North and South Holland and its famous cities; Amsterdam, The Hague and Haarlem.
When you start to travel, there are some things you think about, and others you just do not. But once you get started, its open season!
Trains trains and more trains because there is no time deadline to this trip and I’d like to see as much as I can of the countries I am visiting. That’s pretty hard to do from 30 000 feet.
China’s capital is becoming a doorway to the Orient for many visitors who come to explore a lively metropolis with an ancient history.
Flightless Dave will be a weekly diary of David Chislett’s adventures as he boards buses, trains, cars, bicycles, boats and in some cases, walks, from place to place in a quest to cross Europe, Eurasia, Australasia, the south Pacific and the Americas and return to the UK. All without flying.
Heineken’s ‘Dropped’ series pits contestants against each other in a bid to get back home.
Are you into rock and festivals and not afraid of garbage and naked drunk people running wild? Then you might consider the contemporary viking-version of the “Summer of Love” every year on a field in the ancient kings’ town of Roskilde, Denmark.
For those tough-to-shift stresses of living in London, we recommend a triple-cleansing combo of chilling in nature, getting big-time active and embracing culture. We found all three in the lesser-known region of Alentejo, Portugal.
As wonderful as the Kruger National Park is, there are a number of other destinations that can give you the thrill of experiencing wildlife. Whether it is lush forests, sparse deserts or historic sites, South Africa’s natural parks are something to behold. Here’s our list of other wildlife destinations to see if you have already been to the Kruger.
The long queues, the ridiculous questions and the millions of forms to fill in… South Africans get a hard time when they travel. Fortunately, we have created a shortlist of the best destinations that require no visa.