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Projects
Who’d live on an island like this?
Adventures, Projects, TribewantedBack in Fiji. Back on Vorovoro. Back to a routine I know so well. But who makes up this little island community these days and what have they been up to whilst the rest of the world has been watching football, tennis & oil spills?
July 10, 2010
Win an internship and 7-nights in South Africa
ProjectsOur first annual travel writing competition The Backdoor – Write Your Way In – is open for entries. There are some great prizes available to be won for the top three articles that we receive.
June 13, 2010
Racing Green Endurance hits the road to Paris
Environment, ProjectsThe Racing Green Endurance team comprises 11 students and staff from the Energy Futures Lab, Mechanical Engineering and Electronic Engineering departments of Imperial College London.
June 12, 2010
Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge – an adventure of a stay
Places, ProjectsStrawberry Fields Eco Lodge is one of those places that make you feel morally good at the end of your stay. You know, the type that of vacation where you’re giving back to a destination.
June 9, 2010
Why have we added accommodation to the site?
Projects, WHL ConsultingIf you subscribe to our RSS Feed, emails or follow us on Facebook you may have noticed a recent flurry of accommodations being listed on the site…
June 2, 2010
Onefinestay and the unhotel
ProjectsFollowing on from Stephen’s great post about travellers trading hotels for quirky holiday homes (see Are holiday homes replacing hotels?), one innovative new website www.onefinestay.com is taking this a step further with the introduction of the ‘unhotel’.
May 23, 2010
Are holiday homes replacing hotels?
ProjectsWhether it’s a house, an apartment, a villa, a tent; the appeal of a self catering residential home from home over a hotel seems to be growing massively at the moment.
May 18, 2010
What is Andavadoaka about?
Adventures, Blue Ventures, Projects, VolunteeringAs I sit on the porch writing this, the almost full moon casts it light on the waves crashing gently on the shore in front of the hut. In the background I can hear the vibrant Gasy music playing at the epibar
May 16, 2010
From Vorovoro to John Obey. How did that happen?
Adventures, Personal, Places, Projects, Tribewanted“So where next?” It was September 1st 2006. We’d just welcomed the ‘first footers’ onto Vorovoro’s golden sands and Tui Mali had accepted our offer of the tabua (whales tooth) as our social contract with his community. We had begun.
May 12, 2010
The Project: Building a new kind of community in Sierra Leone
Adventures, Places, Projects, TribewantedIn October 2010, a new group of visitors will arrive on Sierra Leone’s John Obey Beach, 20 miles south of the capital, Freetown, and begin to build a new life alongside the local fishing community.
May 11, 2010
