CHECK OUT THE NEW WAY TO BROWSE EXPERIENCES - BY WHAT? AND WHERE? Makes it so much easier - and that’s coming from me who already has a good idea of what we have included so far…
Updates from March, 2008
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Browse away!
Kat
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Flavorful Festivals
Tara
Hey everyone my name is Tara and I’m a new intern here at The World Reviewer. I’ve recently posted some experiences, and they’re definitely worth checking out.
I never knew that an entire week could be dedicated to celebrating something as small, and well, slimy as sardines, but they do it in Greece. Around the first week of August the island of Lesvos hosts the annual Skala Kaloni Sardine Festival and people wake up at the crack of dawn to catch the fishing boats as they come in with fresh, tasty sardines, waiting to be eaten. Local chefs and fishermen create an abundance of sardine snacks, or you can pop a raw one in your mouth. I’ve never been a fan of sardines myself, but I must say the festival makes them sound pretty appealing.
If you like to eat (who doesn’t?) like I do, you should also check out the Cheese Festival Rocamadour. Every Whit Sunday the village of Rocamadour attracts the finest cheeses of all tastes, textures, and stenches. With so many people competing over who has the best cheese, you’re bound to find some spectacular tastes.
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Luxury Tents?
Kat
The words luxury and tent are an unusual combination and the concept is certainly one worth investigating (it’s not the sleeping in the tent bit that bothers me but the putting it up and taking it down bit that is most over-rated.). The Mowani Mountain Camp, newly added to our list of Top Camps and Campsites will give you a better idea of how the queen might go camping?
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Holiday snaps
Kat
If your suggestion of getting out the holiday snaps meets with changed subjects and retreats to do the washing up then it could be that you need to take a trip somewhere photogenic. Always here with trip suggestions I have put together a couple of the images that get me packing my bags every time I see them: The Twelve Apostles, Antelope Canyon, Iguazu Falls, Whitehaven Beach and homesickness favourite for me, Bondi (this is what it looks like on an average day as well.)
Or it could be that you’re just not much of a photographer…? -
My favourite experience:
Kat
Chatting to Hollie Jones about her favourite riding trips ended with me having to force her to decide which were her favourite favourites and which were her second favourite favourites - and she naturally turned the tables on me and asked for my top recommendation. It’s not any easier for me to decide but I was lucky enough to grow up in Australia’s Kakadu National Park (if there is any confusion - yes, that’s where Crocodile Dundee comes from too.) and I know it so well that I would have to put it at the top of my ‘Recommend-to-a-friend list’. It’s ancient, slow moving and shaped in cycles by the weather, this is a natural wonder to me not just because of the scenery and the wildlife but also for the history - this place is old, the bush feels still and quiet (I think it’s the heat) and the views of the bush, floodplains and escarpment are ….. (INSERT WORD TO DESCRIBE THE INDESCRIBABLY SPECTACULAR HERE)….
Australians are ’supposed’ to have a connection with the land. Most people don’t and I don’t in a way that is even remotely related to the relationship the aboriginal people have but this is the land I have a connection with in my dreams.
