Home - mobile – MILD ROVER: Go your own way

OK gourmet Mildrovers, take it as read this has our highest recommendation because the original Luxury Escapes Signature tour to Vietnam with these two...

Hungry hikers: Eating our way across southern France

Tours Jimmy Thomson - March 20, 2024

Last northern spring my Bafta winning writer friend and former TV presenter Kieran Prendiville and I took on a perilous hike through northern Provence. It...

Tour Indochina with Angkor Wat, Ha Long Bay Cruise

Tours Michael G Browne - February 15, 2024

One of the many pluses of living in Australia is pretty much all of Asia is on our doorstep. You know, the it's-only-an-eight-hour-flight doorstep...

India and Sri Lanka best exotic small group tour

Tours Michael G Browne - January 24, 2024

Our last Indian suggestion was a decadent small group rail tour and this gem lets you stray off the tracks and really get up...

CRUISE

Cruise

Voyage to remote Solomons and Papua New Guinea

Michael G Browne - April 17, 20240

if you like to rove mildly off the beaten track without the accompanying mishaps and lack of comfort, then Cruise Traveller has a very...

Cruise

Get in quick for a late run at Antarctic adventure

Jimmy Thomson - April 11, 20240

High summer is usually the most popular time to visit Antarctica on an expedition ship but Australian small ship cruise specialist, Cruise Traveller, is...

Cruise

Cruise Perth to Sydney over the Top End 2025

Michael G Browne - April 3, 20240

For us Mildrovers who for all their travel adventures think there's no place like home, here's a cruise that keeps you Australia adjacent for...

REVIEWS

Arrivals

Blood Moon and the best (budget) hotel in Saigon

Jimmy Thomson - April 11, 20240

I’m just back from Saigon, where I was finishing my next James Dunbar novel, with a lot of stories to tell. And in case...

Places

Romantic adults-only resorts keep love afloat

Sue Williams - February 21, 20240

The sun had just slipped down over the sea and a blaze of magenta was slowly lighting up the sky. A soft breeze ruffled...

Places

Laid-back luxury islands so near, yet far enough away

Sue Williams - February 15, 20240

A small charter boat streaks across the turquoise waters, leaving a trail of white surf that laps at the beach. Workers on a construction...

AMAZING PLACES

Vietnam

The night they raided Soul Alley, Saigon

Jimmy Thomson - December 11, 20230

Exactly 53 years ago this month a combined force of American and Vietnamese MPs and civilian police raided the "no-whites-allowed" area of Soul Alley...

Arrivals

Ride, hike and snorkel in Ecuador and the Galapagos islands

Jimmy Thomson - January 13, 20230

If the last years’ travel restrictions have left you with a pent-up sense of adventure, our friends at KimKim travel have curated a...

Places

Hear, hear, the pipes are calling

Jimmy Thomson - November 30, 20220

Scotland’s Tourism spruikers are ramping up their efforts to get more people over there in 2023 – and you have to admit there’s a...

Places

Soak in the sights of onsen central, Kinosaki

Jimmy Thomson - November 19, 20220

The Japanese town of Kinosaki, 160km north of Osaka, is renowned for having numerous unique and charming onsens (hot baths). But there's a lot more...

Places

Fantasy becomes reality in NZ’s Hobbiton

Sue Williams - November 13, 20220

It’s so lush and lovely, for a moment my fellow tourists are stunned into silence. But then Middle Earth Madness descends once again and...

Reviews

Featured

Departure Lounge

Arrivals