I planned this one for a Saturday on purpose. Salamanca Market only happens once a week, and I did not want to be the person who turns up on a Tuesday and wonders where everyone went. So I built my whole Hobart afternoon around it: market first, then up through Kelly’s Steps into Battery Point, then a loop through the oldest streets in the suburb before heading...
Most guides point you up Mt Wellington for sunset. That is fair advice. But the mountain is a long drive, the weather turns without warning, and if you have only a couple of evenings in Hobart you might want something closer, quieter, and easier to reach. That is where the eastern shore comes in. I spent four nights in Hobart in January and gave myself two evenings...
I almost missed Sapa entirely. I had one night in Hanoi, a vague idea that the mountains in the north were worth seeing, and a friend who said — without much explanation — just take the night train. So I did. I boarded at Hanoi station just before 10 PM, fell asleep somewhere in the Vietnamese countryside, and woke up at dawn to mist pouring over mountain ridges I...
Wineglass Bay is the photo that sells Tasmania. That perfect curve of white sand and turquoise water, wrapped around by the pink granite peaks of the Hazards, ends up on every postcard and guidebook cover for a reason. In 2026 it was named one of the World’s 50 Best Beaches, and seeing it in person, from the lookout, on a clear day, it earns the hype. I am...
You can see it from almost everywhere in Hobart. That great grey-blue wall of rock rising behind the city, often with its top lost in cloud. kunanyi / Mount Wellington is the backdrop to the whole town, and the first thing most visitors decide is that they have to get up there. I am Fuad, and across forty-three countries I have stood on a lot of lookouts. The summit...
Some places you remember for a single view. Bruny gave me a dozen. Sea cliffs dropping straight into the Southern Ocean, a thin ribbon of sand with ocean on both sides, an empty beach curving away into low cloud, and a lighthouse balcony with the whole wild south of the island laid out beneath it. I went on a grey, drizzly January day, and it was still one of the...
Brow Head, near Crookhaven in West Cork, is the true southernmost point of mainland Ireland, not Mizen Head, as almost every guide assumes. It’s a wild, unmarked headland reached by a short walk from the coast road, with sweeping Atlantic cliff views, a ruined Napoleonic signal tower, and a remarkable connection to Marconi’s earliest wireless experiments...
A Mizen Peninsula day trip from Cork is one of the best ways to experience West Cork, taking in dramatic Atlantic cliffs, a medieval castle ruin, a hidden beach, Ireland’s true southernmost point, and the famous Mizen Head bridge, all in a single day. This guide lays out the full route from Cork city, with five stops in the order that makes geographical sense...
Mizen Head is the most south-westerly point of mainland Ireland and one of the most dramatic places to visit on the entire Wild Atlantic Way. The big draws are the 1910 arch bridge spanning a churning Atlantic gorge, the cliff walk above 100-metre drops, and the old signal station, now a museum, perched at the very edge of the country. This guide covers the bridge...
Three Castle Head is one of the most extraordinary places in West Cork, and one of the least visited. At the far western tip of the Mizen Peninsula, beyond Crookhaven and beyond the reach of the tour buses, a rough walk over open moorland leads to Dunlough Castle: a 13th-century ruin perched above a dark clifftop lake, with the Atlantic crashing somewhere below. This...