Our first visit to a plantation was an eye-opening, heart-wrenching experience this week in Charleston, South Carolina – find out why!

After 11 wonderful weeks, we Globetrottergirls are finally moving on from Mexico. On the bus on our way to Belize, we were already reminiscing about our time here, and came up with 33 things we love about Mexico…

We spent one day this week with the elephants at the Elephant Nature Park north of Chiang Mai, an elephant sanctuary which is home to over 30 rescued elephants.

Forget what we expected it to be like – Thailand is what it is! This incredible country, so filled with contrasts, has been a fascinating place to get to know. Find out what a rustic gas station looks like, which social media network Thais are surprisingly active on, and why Thailand is 543 years in the future…

Now that we have booked our flights to travel the one place we have always wanted to go most, I wonder this week if all this housesitting, sun and sand has made us soft. Read on to find out our next travel destination…

Our Hotel Tip of the Week series offers accommodation tips from around the world. All are places where we have stayed in and personally recommend. This week: Casa Roa in Mexico City.

This week I wonder whether this travel addict has lost the buzz of the chase, whether the little differences matter, and where my next Argentine pizza is coming from…

We love housesititng so much, we wrote the book on it! Literally! Break Free: The Ultimate Guide to Housesitting is now available on Amazon. Find out how you can afford to take the trip of a lifetime!

We visited 10 countries this year, and we fell in love with a lot of the places we visited. Which cities made it into our top five favorite destinations of 2012?

This week’s Polaroid features the Cruz del Sur building in Santiago de Chile, an impressive building and optical illusion!