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Drinking fruit wine in the ocean in Nha Trang, Vietnam

Highlights of 100 blog posts

15 November 2012 Simon Petersen 6

Your favourite travel blog is celebrating its 100th article. Take a ride down memory lane and relive some its best – and worst – blog posts…

The signpost at Cape Reinga in Northland, New Zealand

Cape Reinga: the top of the bottom of the world

6 November 2012 Simon Petersen 13

Cape Reinga at the tip of New Zealand’s North Island is a beautiful, isolated little spot that is said to be the place where the spirits of the dead enter the underworld.

A Kangaroo warning sign in Australia

It’s time to take a road trip through Australia

15 October 2012 Simon Petersen 3

It’s time to put on your traveling shoes and take a road trip through Australia. Make this trip count and expand your horizons along the great horizons of the land of Oz…

The crushingly beautiful island of Nang Yuan

The many trials of an aspiring travel blogger

11 October 2012 Simon Petersen 39

How do I blog? How can I get more hits? How can I increase my page rank? I am an aspiring travel blogger and these are the questions that keep me up at night…

The view of Auckland's Hauraki Gulf from my apartment

Moving to Auckland and the future of Man vs World

27 September 2012 Simon Petersen 22

Sirens, horns and the sound of a million cars rises 14 floors to where I’m sitting now, admiring the view of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. […]

Twitter bird

The 30 nicest travellers to follow on Twitter

18 September 2012 Simon Petersen 82

It seems like every travel blogger and his dog has a list of the so-called “best travellers to follow on Twitter”, cataloguing the most popular, […]

A meal of Turkish kebabs

The Istanbul Pact: a delicious travel tip for couples

6 September 2012 Simon Petersen 14

It started with a meal; not just any meal, mind, but a really really terrible one. My fiancé and I were in Istanbul, it was […]

Another beautiful beach in New Zealand

Confessions of a New Zealand beach snob

21 August 2012 Simon Petersen 32

Brighton, Cannes, Biarritz and Marbella: they’ve got nothing on Raglan, Piha, Matai Bay or Punakaiki. Once I took the beaches of New Zealand for granted; […]

A beautifful sunset in Koh Tao, Thailand

Why I backpack (and you should too)

8 May 2012 Simon Petersen 18

It’s raining so I’m sitting in my room, where it’s dark because the light doesn’t work. The bed is as hard as concrete and I […]

At the bach with the family.

Going home after four years on the road

15 March 2012 Simon Petersen 5

After four years living in London it was time to go back home to New Zealand – at least for a visit. I was missing […]

Brisbane's city beach, the Streets Beach, Southbank

Australia’s safest beach

3 February 2012 Simon Petersen 9

When I think of Australia what immediately comes to mind is shrimps on barbecues, thongs as footwear, the accent, all manner of dangerous and deadly […]

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