Good morning members and Welcome to The PASSPORT CONNECTIONS Weekly Travel Post Series called “Brilliant Journeys”. Over the next 12 months I will be posting my personal travel experiences in different areas of the world for you. Each week I will focus on experiences and journeys in different international locations incorporating, links, images, reels and video clips. To begin our 12-month series of posts, this week I’ll be focusing on the Indian Beach location of Palolem Beach in South Goa on the West coast of India. Click the link HERE for the story, supporting images and media.

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Nat has been travelling the world for 10 years, living and working in a variety of countries. Join Andrew and Nat for a chat about her adventures.

Andy and Mark travelling from Cape Reinga, the spiritual home of the Māori and the meeting of the oceans at the tip of the north island to Milford Sound below Queenstown in the south Island. The name Aotearoa is used alongside New Zealand today and is a key part of the country's indigenous heritage. Delivering a campervan for IMoves from Auckland to Queenstown we negotiated extra time on the road to deliver and opted to pay for the ferry from Wellington to Picton as a part of the deal. In 12 days we covered 3900 klm predominantly staying in TOP 10 van parks and a variety of free camping sites on beaches in both islands. What a spectacular, green and clean country New Zealand is. No better destination for a road trip, offering adventure activities alongside cultural and natural attractions. The North Island is the spiritual and historical home of Māori heritage offering a diverse range of experiences, from volcanic geothermal areas like Rotorua with its geysers and bubbling mud pools to beautiful beaches, rolling green hills and extensive coastline. And then there's Matamata, where you can almost literally live within J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic brought to life by director Peter Jackson. This is Hobbiton, the sprawling film set used for the filming of the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit trilogies. The central North Island is dominated by the Volcanic Plateau, the island sits on the boundary of tectonic plates, which is the cause of its significant geothermal and volcanic activity. The North Island contains New Zealand's two largest cities: Auckland, the country's most populous city, and Wellington, the capital. The South Island of New Zealand, is larger and more mountainous than the North Island, with a dramatic landscape dominated by the Southern Alps. Key features include snow-capped peaks, fjords and glaciers. The scenic 4 hour drive from Christchurch to Greymouth on the west coast is spectacular and should not be missed. The west coast is known for its ruggedness, fiords like Milford Sound, lush rainforests, and the fiords of Fiordland National Park is a must-do. The island has an oceanic climate with no active volcanoes, but it does have many hot pools, Hanmer Springs being one. The island is home to wine regions, particularly in the Marlborough and Central Otago areas and lush pastures full of beef, lamb and deer.

From the southern beaches of Goa and Varkala, to the far off beaches of the Adaman Islands, to the backwaters of Kerala, the palaces and forts of Mysore and Jaiselmere, the deserts of Rajastan, the temples of Hampi Hardiwar Kushinagar and BodhGaya, the hill stations of Shimla, Mandi and McLoed Ganj, the caves of Ellora and Ajanta, to the hustle and mayhem of Delhi, Agra and Amritsar, to laid back Udiapur on the lake and the pink and blue cities of Jaipur and Jodhpur and finally from the marketplaces of the cities and towns across this diverse and colourful nation. No wonder I keep going back. Click Heres why.