http://travels.yyquest.net The Road Less Travelled Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:45:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While I am not really a beach kind of person, I am sure many others are. Well, here are some ideas of good and affordable beach resorts for consideration. As usual the information is accurate of November 2008 and the currency quoted is Australian dollars. World's top affordable beach resorts http://travels.yyquest.net/2008/11/18/beach-resorts/ Continuing the theme of holiday-planning, here are apparently some of Asia's top new destinations! http://travels.yyquest.net/2008/11/11/asias-top-new-destinations/ At the best of times, when I travel I need to watch that I don't spend unnecessarily - after all, my name does not have a Hilton or Gates in it... :-) Given the current financial turmoil, thuis is especially true, so here is some timely and practical advice that ... http://travels.yyquest.net/2008/11/05/top-10-tips-for-cutting-your-travel-costs/ As we near the end of 2008, are you already planning your next vacation in 2009? :-) Well, here are some suggestions extracted from Lonely Planet's "Best In Travel 2009": 2009's hottest travel destinations. http://travels.yyquest.net/2008/11/03/some-travel-hot-spots-for-2009/ Are you into hiking, away from city lights? Here are some great choices across the 5 continents: The greatest walks on earth. http://travels.yyquest.net/2008/11/01/great-walks-on-earth/ To kick off the new change, here is an interesting article for people planning to travel to/in Australia, where 20 famous Australians share their favourite national parks around the country.. 20 great spots by 20 great Aussies I am ashamed to say that pit of the list I have only been to ... http://travels.yyquest.net/2008/10/30/53/ This has been a long time coming, but I have finally decided to change a little the flavour of this site. Instead of simply documenting my own travels, from now on I will also include snippets of travel-related information so that I will be able to find the same information ... http://travels.yyquest.net/2008/10/30/revamp/ Had a chance to attend a 2-week long Machine Learning Summer School held at The Australian National University (or ANU) in Canberra, 6 - 17 February. It was both somewhat strange and exciting to be back on the grounds where I spent three and half years of my life as ... http://travels.yyquest.net/2006/02/20/retracing-steps/ I have to be honest and say that I really had never heard of this place before I planned for this trip. In fact, had my friend Lorenzo (from Rome) not suggested Tours, I would have missed out on something really wonderful! In fact, I had initially wanted to spend ... http://travels.yyquest.net/2005/07/03/tours/ Thursday 12 May The final day in Munich was actually quite sunny and warm. Spent the morning at the Olympic Stadium, which was as usual very easily reachable by the efficient subway system. Sadly, however, this stadium (and the Games) will always be associated with the terrorist massacre which led to the ... http://travels.yyquest.net/2005/05/19/final-lingerings/