Top 10 Places to Visit for 2012

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This week’s Blogger in the Spotlight (BITS) is my buddy and travel mentor, Simon Falvo of Wild About Travel , and she shares her Top 10 Places to Visit For Year 2012. In the Chinese horoscope, the Dragon is a symbol of change and good fortune. I think about what kind of fortune I wish to have, [...]

10 ways to Improve Travel Blogging

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Today’s Blogger in the Spotlight is Caz Makepeace of ytravelblog.. and she shares her 10 great tips on how to keep your blog relevant and popular, even as things start to get busy while you’re travelling..  There is nothing easy about travel blogging. It requires hours of hard work and dedication. There are certain strategies and [...]

10 easy tips to making a good video

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Here’s today’s Blogger in the Spotlight, JD Andrews, with his terrific tips on video making. Making a good video is harder than some people think. You may put up a video.. but it doesn’t mean that everyone might want to watch it. By just following the 10 practical steps below, you may just be on the right [...]

6 Ideas for How to Take Your Blog to the Next Level

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Blogs and businesses have seasons, just like the weather.  Autumn is usually a season of change – a time for new directions and new experiments, the closing of doors and opening of new ones. Are you thinking of taking your blog to the next level?  Trying something new, or fixing something that never worked in [...]

5 Things NOT To Do At US Immigration & Customs

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Today’s Blogger in the Spotlight is our buddy Earl, who writes about his nomadic adventures over at WanderingEarl dot com. Earl is a bit of a daredevil, and he tells this story about how he got stopped at the US Customs with a bullet in his pocket.. and if you want to read more about [...]

Top 5 Favourite Food Experiences from a World Tour

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Today’s Blogger in the Spotlight are our buddies from Grantourismo, the dynamic blogging duo, Lara Dunston and Terrence Carter and they write on 5 of their favourite Food Experiences from their recent world tour. When we took on the task of dipping into the local culture of each destination we visited for our twelve-month HomeAwayUK [...]

The different Skies of Lapland

Today’s Blogger in the Spotlight is the lovely Heather, of the Ruka and Kuusamo Blog. We were completely captivated by her writing as well as the images on her blog and so we asked her to write a guest post for us, about the amazing skies of Lapland. I’m a British expatriate living in Finnish [...]

The 5 Most Challenging Destinations I’ve Ever Visited

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Today’s Blogger in the Spotlight is Jason, the cool dude we all know as @digidrift and he is one of the more experienced travellers I know. This guy has covered over 90 countries during his travels and we feel so privileged to have him write about the most challenging destinations he has ever visited. Be [...]

Top 5 Places to Eat, in Brisbane

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This weeks Blogger in the Spotlight is my mate Joe, whom some of you will remember as the guy who recently relocated to Melbourne, Australia, for a very short time, before he had to relocate to Brisbane yet again because he got a better job offer. He wrote a brilliant post for us the last [...]

My 10 Commandments on Hiking in Europe

Michael is our distinguished friend from Paris, who is an avid hiker. Together, Michael and Marlys make up the lovely couple whom we all know as @ParisBuff. Michael is an accomplished writer – many of you will know him from his ever so popular guide book, Paris Movie Walks and here he is as today’s [...]

How Spanish has made me a better person

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This weeks guest-writer is no stranger to us. Her uber-cool blog called “Bacon is Magic” makes us laugh, cry, salivate and thump the table in agreement with her lively travel anecdotes. Here is Ayngelina with her post on “How Spanish has made Me a Better Person”.   Last April I arrived in Mexico to spend [...]