Aug 11th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
As an expat in Istanbul, I am very fortunate to have awesome opportunities for short trips around Europe and the Middle East. My previous weekend jaunt was to Beirut, Lebanon. Though the current 90+ degree weather is ruling out a lot of domestic travel for now, for my next getaway, I made like the locals and headed south to the beach.
The place: Bodrum, Turkey
The Bodrum peninsula fancies ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Weekending: Bodrum/Greece
Aug 11th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
As an expat in Istanbul, I am very fortunate to have awesome opportunities for short trips around Europe and the Middle East. My previous weekend jaunt was to Beirut, Lebanon. Though the current 90+ degree weather is ruling out a lot of domestic travel for now, for my next getaway, I made like the locals and headed south to the beach.
The place: Bodrum, Turkey
The Bodrum peninsula fancies ...Aussies beware: government won't help you
May 27th, 2009 at 2:00PM: "If you're too dumb or idle to read the travel advisories ... then you ought to take responsibility for your own behaviour," says former Australian foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer.
And, he has a point. If you roll the dice, you have to be ready to lose ... even if you get lucky sometimes.
Australian tourists outside their homeland have been getting into trouble lately – be it ...
