Wandering the world

A little bit of background 📝 Dubai is somewhere I have stopped over in several times, flying with Emirates on the way to and from Europe. This post is about the one time I left the airport in 2007, on my way back from Morocco. As explained in my Morocco  post, my travelling companion [B] had planned to meet her friend [D] in Dubai on D's way back to Perth from Manchester. This original idea morphed into B and me travelling to Morocco and meeting D in Dubai as our stopover on

A little bit of background📝 In June 2011 I had the opportunity to travel to the UK for the first time since 1996 . I travelled to Manchester to present at a conference, then had 10 days of personal leave. I was able to take advantage of the rules at the time that allowed for personal leave to be added to conference travel by paying half the airfare. I've also made a post on how I spent my 10 days of personal leave after the conference. I have made a post on my London wander

A little bit of background📝 In 2010, I was thrilled to have been accepted to present at my first ever conference, when I was working at a Brisbane university in teaching and learning development. The 23rd International Conference of the First-Year Experience was held in Maui in June of that year. I mean, if one is going to present at a conference for the first time, Hawaii is as good a place as any to go, right? Travelling to Maui🛬 Getting there was an interesting journey,

A little bit of background 📝 Our Orlando wanderings happened by chance when my husband had a last minute opportunity to attend a week-long tech conference in the city in 2008, paid for by his company. He wanted me to go with him and, in a move very unlike me, we organised for my parents to look after our kids [who were 10 and 8 at the time] so I could go. It felt like a big step for us as it was the first time both of us had been away on our own since we'd had children. We l