Tips & Inspiration

The World’s Best Road Trips: 17 Ultimate Road Trips for 2017!

by David Murray | Jan 12, 2017

As road trip addicts we've been fortunate enough to have embarked on some of the world's most beautiful journeys. From stunning coastlines to barren deserts, from historical to modern, across countries and continents we're sharing our 17 favourite road trips that...

Our top 25 2016 travel moments! Ready, set … go!

by Elaine McArdle | Jan 9, 2017

As 2017 kicks off Dave and I are in full swing planning new adventures and seeking travel inspiration for the year ahead. Looking back on our 2016 exploits (3 months on the road exploring 24 countries) we had so many incredible moments that we wanted to share some of...

Our travels in UNESCO World Heritage Sites: UNESCO Sites 51 to 100!

by Elaine McArdle | Aug 1, 2016

We made it to our first 50 UNESCO World Heritage Sites (check out our progress with sites 1 to 50 here!) but we're not finished yet! There are over 1,000 UNESCO World Heritage Sites dotted across the world and it's our mission to visit as many as possible! We were...

Our travels in UNESCO World Heritage Sites: UNESCO Sites 1 to 50!

by Elaine McArdle | Jul 19, 2016

There are 1052 UNESCO World Heritage Sites dotted across the world and it's our mission to visit as many as possible! We've been lucky enough to come across a few of the designated UNESCO sites on our previous travels but the list maker in us wants to tick off a lot...

10 reasons NOT to quit your job for travel: why we won’t travel full time!

by Elaine McArdle | Jan 29, 2016

With our crazy travel schedule, a travel website that pulls in almost 100,000 visitors a month and the internet awash with tales of full-time travel it's a question we get asked almost daily: when are you going to quit your jobs and travel full-time? Well guess what?...

10 tips: how to get over the travel blues after an amazing trip!

by Elaine McArdle | Jan 11, 2016

It's something we spend a considerable amount of time pondering over in between our travels: what's the best way to deal with the travel blues after an amazing trip? Our Travel Blues We'd been looking forward to our Myanmar trip forever. The country had been at the...

Our Top 15 Instagram Photos of 2015: the most popular pics from our travels!

by David Murray | Dec 26, 2015

We're Instagram obsessed in The Whole World is a Playground House! Sharing pics of our adventures is one of our favourite travel pastimes and we love wanderlusting over other incredible travel accounts. So in celebration of an awesome year of trave\\\\\l, as a toast...

Our 10 Ultimate Luxury Travel Experiences!

by Elaine McArdle | Dec 23, 2015

From fabulous hotels to business class flights we are big fans of luxury travel in The Whole World is a Playground house! We've been so fortunate to squeeze in some amazing luxury travel fun throughout our adventures and we wanted to share our favourites. So for all...

25 Ultimate Travel Experiences You Must Try Once In Your Lifetime!

by Elaine McArdle | Dec 2, 2015

Travel opens up a world full to the brim of incredible experiences and we've had many, many amazing moments on our world trips. For all you travel junkies out there: we wanted to share with you our 25 ultimate travel experiences which we think deserve a spot on...

8 Realities of Life as a Travel Blogger!

by Elaine McArdle | Sep 1, 2015

The life of a travel blogger is a super glamorous existence filled to the brim with endless sunny days, gorgeous hotels and idyllic destinations. Right? That's not exactly the whole story! Travel blogging is an all consuming love affair which requires unlimited...