Friday Travel Photo: Approaching Storm on New Zealands South Island

New Zealand travel tip — never underestimate the beauty of an impending storm. NZ is known for its many climates and its ever-changing weather...

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Friday Travel Photo: Sunset in St Kilda

Today’s Friday Travel Photo was submitted by fellow expat and traveler seeing the world through working holidays, Christine of C’estChristine.com. If you’d like your photo featured in this not-quite-weekly feature, please contact me. Melbourne has gotten used to Sydney stealing its thunder. While Melbourne was once the largest and most prominent city in Australia, Sydney [...]

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Friday Travel Photo: Sunny Praia de Belixe, Portugal

Today’s Friday Travel Photo helps you escape the cold of winter and takes you to sunny Praia de Belixe, Portugal. It was submitted by Stephen Burgo of the GoMad Nomad Travel Mag. January is the ideal time for a backpacker to visit Southern Portugal; the temperatures aren’t quite as extreme, the tourists are few and far between, [...]

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Friday Travel Photo: Sunset Over Sarajevo

Today’s Friday Travel Photo was submitted by Clark & Kim of the travel blog ToUncertaintyAndBeyond.com. Kim captured this fantastic photo outside of Sarajevo, Bosnia. Clark remembers this from the night they were backpacking in Sarajevo: I asked the locals where I could find a good view of the city, and they pointed me up the [...]

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Friday Travel Photo: Italian Alleyway at Dusk

Today’s Friday Travel Photo takes you to Bary, Italy – an unsuspecting port town on Italy’s east coast. Fate would result in me spending a night here after traveling some 16 hours via train, bus, and ferry from Sicily. My goal was to catch a ferry to Athens – I unfortunately missed the ferry and [...]

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Friday Travel Photo: Layer of Clouds

After a week long hiatus, today’s Friday Travel Photo brings you to a pull-off on the Queenstown to Glenorchy Road. On a clear day, it’s an epic 45 minute drive from busy Queenstown to the quaint little village of Glenorchy. The road twists, turns, and skirts along the shores of Lake Wakatipu with excellent views [...]

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Friday Travel Photo: Piss – Prague, Czech Republic

Today’s Friday Travel Photo takes you to the Czech Republic’s capital city of Prague. Prague is the geographical center of Europe and one of continent’s most beautiful cities.  Praha is filled with friendly people, world-renowned Czech Pilsner beer, and a stunning range of architecture – Renaissance, Gothic, cubist and neoclassical all sit side-by-side. Did I [...]

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Friday Travel Photo: New Zealand Sheep

New Zealand is a country of just about four million people with a whopping forty million sheep. There are sheep everywhere. And they’re delicious. Today’s Friday Travel Photo features one of these forty million sheep. Her name was Gloria and she lived near one of the greatest hostels I’ve found in New Zealand. Perched at [...]

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Friday Travel Photo: View From the Edinburgh Castle

Today’s Friday Travel Photo takes you to one of the most stunning cities in Europe: Edinburgh, Scotland. A city filled with cozy pubs, great museums, an excellent nightlife scene, and some spectacular architecture. Edinburgh is a city you can visit for a week, and somehow find yourself there months later. This photo was taken from [...]

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Friday Travel Photo: Cappadocia, Turkey

Today’s Friday Travel Photo brings you to Cappadocia in central Turkey. Thanks to Verity (@verty) from With Sparkles for submitting the photo. The rocks of this area of Turkey have been whipped into shockingly smooth curves – this volcanic terrain, with rock formations known as ‘fairy chimneys’ has been shaped by Mother Nature over thousands [...]

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