The café strip along Beaufort Street in Mount Lawley, a five-minute bus ride out of Perth centre, is popular with both locals and tourists – there are dozens of places to recommend but somewhere that’s a little bit different is Leaf Tea Merchants on Walcott Street, just one set of shops back from the busy Beaufort Street intersection.

When I found the Hostel Pegasus on hostelz.com last summer, it seemed like the perfect choice. Affordable dorm room beds in a relatively convenient location of Berlin, effectively ending what had been an otherwise torturous search to find available beds that would not break the bank.

Amsterdam is a city that embraces change. In recent years, the city itself has been the object undergoing the most change. A city-wide metro project has left the city's main arteries under construction for years longer than projected, and of course the project has cost much more than was originally budgeted for it; however, the city now has a super-efficient and lightning-quick underground mode of transportation.

A beautiful spring weekend. An open schedule. Is there anything better than going for a drive and discovering new places? If you’re in Australia, then going for a drive is practically a national pastime and you shouldn’t miss out on all the wonderful things Melbourne has to offer outside its immediate suburbs.

A friend who lives in the Hills region of Perth – the eastern part of the city – recently gave me a great tip for an evening wildlife adventure when she told me about the Karakamia Sanctuary in Chidlow, about a 45-minute drive from the city centre. It’s a 680-acre block of land that was bought by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, cleared of non-native pests like foxes and wild cats, and has now become home to growing numbers of endangered mammal species like numbats, wallabies and woylies.