OK so I did it for all the Asian countries, I'm lumping together all the last 4 countries I visited for a best of. Best Meal: Salmon, rice and potato salad in Höfn, Iceland. Why? Cause the fish was 50% off! Cheaper than back home to boot. Best Capital: Copenhagen. Cool cobblestone streets, canal tours, a little mermaid statue and drinking in the streets at 10am! Stockholm could almost take the prize, but the problem is all the Swede's that live there...

I don't know if it's a 3 month itch type of thing, or the fact that my meals for the past month have consisted of muesli/yoghurt for brekkie, bread and spread for lunch and pasta/rice and sauce for tea, but the craving for food you can only seem to get in Australia have kcike din and kicked in hard. Myself and a couple of others who've been abroad for a while had a conversation a couple of times that went something like this: Hungry Aussie 1: Meat pie and sau...

So I`ve just come back from spending a week in the middle of Sweden at an orienteering 5 day event called ORingen, the largest multi day event in the world. Fsr the non-oreinteers, but this post is going to sound as foreign as Swedish does to me, and it`ll probably be as boring as most We arrived at the campsite and set up shop with a couple of other Aussies and a buch of the Oz juniors who`d just finished competing at the Junior World Champs in Lithuania. Simila...

As I write this Norway is in my brain duking it out with Laosas the country I've likes most so far. It's not surprising that I haven't seen many overweight Norwegaiuns, the country is so beautiful you just have to explore it. Every train ride is magic, rolling through green farmlands, pristine lakes and alpine wilderness. I've visited Halden, one of the top locations in the world I'm told. For the orienteering community, thats where BJ lives now (he's just the ...

A lot of people told me how expensive Norway is and how muchmoney I would be spending. I'm taking great delight in proving them all wrong. With a bit of ingenuity and a buit more leg work its possible to get by on less than 50 bucks a day and still get a good value travel experience. It also helps that I'm travelling with a Woolford, who seem to have bargain hunting built into their genetic code. Heres a couple of hints you don't see in the Lonely Planet. 1....