The Food -  a collection of photos taken over two days spent in Genoa, Italy, for the Blog Tour #Q4T 2012. Soon after our arrival in the city we stop for lunch in one of the most authentic and simple restaurants in town: Sa Pesta, the oldest "sciamadda" in Genova, right in the center of the city. The simple dishes of the "cucina genovese", like the farinata, la torta di riso, il polpettone genovese, la tort ...

This is a guest post by Paige Green for all our Aussie readers and for anyone that needs a good excuse to have a long weekend! Labour Day has come and gone and some Australians may be surprised to learn that there are no more public holidays until the holiday season kicks off in December - with the exception of Melbourne Cup Day for those lucky Victorians on 2 November. Meanwhile, many Queenslanders began t ...

Arrived at the huge Barajas airport and some how managed to get lost finding our way to the baggage hall. After locating our loan bags from the caracole, we decided to tackle the metro to get into central Madrid to our Hostel. The metro was quiet and civilised, due to it being a national holiday (9th November) to celebrate Virgen de la Almudena. We didn’t realise how important this celebration was until we ...