We came across this article on Brilliant Trips - an awesome website that has great travel trips.  How cool is this??

The Jumbo Hostel is a Boeing 747 jumbo jet that has been converted into an upmarket hostel located at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, Sweden. Located a short ten minute walk from the check-in counters, the [...]

The Running of the Bulls is a practice that involves running in front of bulls that have been let loose on a course of a sectioned-off subset of a town’s streets. The most famous running of the bulls is that of the nine-day festival of San Fermín in Pamplona, although they are held in towns [...]

Starting out as a festival before the somber mood of Lent, Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is considered one of the greatest shows on Earth. Rio de Janeiro is known as the cultural capital of Brazil and was the administrative capital from 1822 to 1960, when Federal Government moved to the new capital, Brasilia. The [...]

La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain. Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world to fight in a brutal battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are [...]

It is now official! We are going to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa as official ticket holders. This is a big relief, and probably keeps us out of unnecessary trouble or hassle with scalping. We didn’t get tickets for the quarter finals match, but were fortunate to get two games in Port Elizabeth [...]