Mona Vale & The Blue Mountains

Mona Vale... The next stop on our beach ‘hitlist’ of Sydney was Mona Vale, roughly a 40-minute bus ride from where we were staying, in Gordon. We weren’t too sure exactly what to expect of Mona Vale but I had in mind at least that it would be quite a large town, terminating literally onto a beachfront. Instead, the bus dropped us off just by a shopping centre and the walk, past an industrial estate and up past some houses, was surprisingly... Read More

Sightseeing Sydney…

The Cliffs of Watsons Bay... For our next few days, having seen most of what the city centre itself had to offer us quite quickly, we decided it was high time to hit the many beaches and coastal walks that Sydney has to offer. There really is very few cities in the world I’ve been to where literally a 15-minute drive from the city centre can take you to some of the most spectacular beaches you’ve ever seen so we definitely needed to make... Read More

To Penang, With Love…

The Super VIP journey takes to the road... Last weekend, what with it being another round of Malaysian celebrations (and accompanying public holiday), we decided to make good our escape from Kuala Lumpur and abandon Tune by heading up North to Penang for a couple of days. Incidentally, it turns out nearly every Malaysian had the same idea – buses were nearly all sold out, difficult to find, flights were selling at ridiculous prices and to top it... Read More

Taking a Trip to Europe, 1970, in Goa…

A fiver to the first person to spot a hippy... Nobody, no website, guidebook or colleague had told me the important bit of information about Goa – that it is in fact a well-known establishment, albeit in India, for European hippy’s from a few decades earlier but who still haven’t grown out of it, to go and hang out and make love, not war. This of course came as a complete and unexpected surprise to me when we arrived. But first, the... Read More