While in Taganga I met a Chinese Australian girl called Jess who was really interested in dancing and was making a trip to Cali the salsa capital of the world to pay homage to salsa. She automatically said I should go with her if I liked to dance which of course planted a seed in my head. And once I have an idea I sometimes dangerously so, act on impulse and can't get the idea out of my head. So the day I was heading back to Cartagena I booked a flight to leave...

The day before I was due to leave for Colombia, I finally got a message back from the school assuring me yes, we know your coming and yes, someone will be there to pick you up from the airport. For all I knew they could have just set up a website advertising a school, posted a few fake reviews e.g. "Fantastic experience! - Linda, Brighton" set up a fake PayPal account and watched travellers like me, pour money into their account hoping we've secured a...

As you can see in my first flight itinerary I was not scheduled to go to Singapore or Bali. So the story goes back a few weeks when my mother was in desperate need of a holiday and as two of her daughters were already in The East, the family had already travelled in Thailand, Japan and China and Australia and New Zealand were too cold; I suggested Indonesia with mom to quickly respond I have ALWAYS wanted to go to Bali. And I have been wanted to go to Indonesia...

Everyone thought we were crazy flying to Queensland then Victoria and flying back to Queensland but the point was we wanted to get the cold parts out of the way first and have a warm holiday at the end of our trip and the warmest place we could get to at this time was Cairns. We boarded the flight after a huge rush. We stopped off to say goodbye to Ranna and filled up on cheap sushi at her place and ended up catching the wrong train to the airport. I seemed to ...

As I boarded the Air New Zealand flight from Narita things automatically felt different: The lack of bowing, blond haired people, English newspapers and greetings in English. The pilot came on and announced that we have the New Zealand trampoline team on board, who had won gold medals here in Japan and gave them a big congratulation over the intercom. But the icing on the cake came when he announced it was one of the airhostess' birthdays and if we could all wi...