Amy on the Road is a travel fiction series following Amy, a young Aussie on her first forays into backpacking. Follow her misadventures from the beginning at www.annkaddley.com From Jakarta I’d been planning on heading to Brunei, Malaysia but with earthquakes reported in Sabah I decided to simply stopover in Singapore before heading onto Thailand. It was a bit nerve wracking changing plans so close to leaving but I figured that was the idea with this backpacking thing wasn’t

So for the first time in a long time you are in the position to take some time off and go away. You have been dreaming of this holiday for months. Then your boss asks you when you are taking all these holiday days you have owing and you find yourself agreeing to three weeks over summer. You’re excited, you’re pumped and then you suddenly realize you have no idea where to start planning and your holiday is only two months away. Whether you are off backpacking or planning a fam

Night buses are one of those things that seem like a good idea at the time, after all you reach your destination while sleeping, you don’t need to pay for a night’s accommodation and they are often all that is available for long trips at short notice. Despite my many less than stellar night bus experiences I’m still tempted into booking one occasionally, like childbirth it’s hard to accurately recall the depths of discomfort after the fact but take my word for it there will

So I am from an area that isn’t really big on Halloween, last weekend when everybody was posting on Facebook about amazing costume parties, I was waiting at home for trick or treaters that never arrived. As much as I understand that in many parts of the world Halloween is a mostly commercial holiday and down this end of the world we are just jumping on the band wagon, well it looks like a lot of fun. With that in mind I have compiled a list of the best Halloween holiday desti