Wanderlust: explore some the great journeys of exploration including Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, and the Orient Express.

If you're stuck with workmates from hell, or housemates from hell, don't think you'll find any respite by going on the holiday... presenting the travel companions from hell: On the tour bus, murder is on the cards. As sticky minutes creep by, the ways and means are becoming increasingly bloody - and satisfying. But there is a problem. Al, a member of our tour group and our intended victim, ... Read full entry

"Thank god we died together eating a burrito on the bus to Baghdad" is an exhibition opening at the TCB Gallery in Melbourne, on 16 July, and has to have the most eye catching exhibition title I've seen this year. Not surprisingly the theme of exhibition is travel, with 14 artists creating "postcards" using sound, painting, installation, video, photography and illustration, to depict some of their travel experiences. Travel is often ... Read full entry

Sydney digital creative Nic Hodges reposts a blog he, and friend Tim, wrote during their travels to Mexico and Cuba in early 2006. Havana. "You wanna buy cigar? Cohiba? I give good price!!" What a crazy place. It's hard to reconcile the obvious poverty and shortages of basic necessities (like toilet seats, bottled water, some foodstuffs) with the sometimes ostentatious wealth (the dudes driving audis). The city is ... Read full entry

The journey is truly half the fun as this awesome collection of travel tickets shows. Via The Design Files

A collection of photos of the in-flight meals served on supersonic aircraft Concorde. With the cost of tickets ranging in price from £3000 for an economy flight, to £8000 for first class seats, you'd hope the food would have been well above par. And it seems it was, if this review of one Concorde meal, was anything to go by. The smoked salmon was absolutely wonderful, just melting in my ... Read full entry

There and Back Again British web designer Andy Budd writes about his recent visit to New Zealand and Australia, where he spoke at Webstock and Web Directions events. I love this paragraph about Hong Kong, "a city where east and west collide", though: The trip started with a two day lay-over in Hong Kong to break the journey. I've been to this amazingly vibrant city before and it's one of ... Read full entry

Lonely Planet rocked by author fraud Possibly this explains why some of the guide books I referred to (they weren't Lonely Planet books BTW), while backpacking around Europe some years ago, were at times a tad off the mark with some of their advice... Thomas Kohnstamm, who worked on more than a dozen guide books for the publisher, has even admitted that he didn't visit one of the countries he wrote ... Read full entry

The hypersonic plane designed to reach Australia in under five hours Flying between Australia and North Europe could virtually become a day trip, if plans to build a craft, dubbed the A2, that could complete the journey in four hours and 40 minutes, come to fruition. The artist's impression looks like something out of a science fiction film. But a hypersonic passenger plane that could fly to Australia from northern Europe ... Read full entry

Lazy option is best when waiting for the bus. Buses travel in packs. It's a universal constant. So if you've just missed a pack of buses that were meant to be travelling 20 minutes apart, what should you do? Wait for another bus-pack, or walk to your destination? Scott Kominers, a mathematician at Harvard University, and his colleagues derived a formula for the optimal time that you should wait for a ... Read full entry