Not in Kansas Anymore

Yes you can go to Carrie's house and sip cosmopolitans in Steve's bar! If you love 'S*x and the City', join me in fabulous New York City via the blog http://bit.ly/1GxYxWj

Top 10 sites from a Manolo-less walk in Carrie's shoes (New York, United States of America) By Hannah Silverman In the pilot episode of S*x and the City, Carrie immediately dispels the myth that New Yorkers don't have breakfast at Tiffany's and instead of affairs to remember, they have af...

Tegan Forder chose Vietnam as the destination to celebrate her 30th birthday. Here's how she did it, and how you can too http://bit.ly/1CagOsl

Suddenly 30 - why you should celebrate your birthday in Vietnam By Tegan Forder My 30th was fast-approaching but I didn’t want a big bash. With my friends scattered across Australia it was all too hard and anyway I wanted to use it as an excuse to go on holiday...

Richard III doesn't look like this anymore... bit.ly/1EW0ZGa

Home office has been asked to pardon Anne Boleyn after almost 500 years. Can you believe it? Is it too late to play the "reasonable doubt" card? We've got a reluctant confession extracted out of torture and hundreds of years of propaganda, both to mitigate and exaggerate her alleged guilt. Over to you guys... http://bit.ly/1CZ3oku

Home Office is asked to pardon Anne Boleyn The Home Secretary is being urged to pardon Anne Boleyn, almost 500 years after she lost her head.

Everybody knows Anne Boleyn, but why isn’t similar attention given to the other five wives whose stories are equally as compelling? Here are my thoughts, I'd love to hear yours, too. http://bit.ly/1DYMz6S

Crowning glory: A Tudor popularity contest By Hannah Silverman In a popularity contest for Henry's favourite wife, it's a pretty clear win for Jane Seymore. Despite being his half-way bride, Jane produced a male heir and now lies next to He...

Without a doubt, Pompeii and Herculaneum are the two most fascinating destinations of all my travel adventures. Here's what happened when I visted the lost city, which surprisingly didn't feel all that unfamiliar. http://bit.ly/1E25KNU

Pompeii and ceremony - the talking walls of Ancient Rome (Pompeii, Italy) By Hannah Silverman In my neighbourhood the streets are lined with houses, churches and parklands. Pretty unremarkable, I suppose. By day the high streets compete for commercial attention in fashio...

Pop on over to the blog, we're talking about secret finds in London, discovering your zen in Bali and the Richard III effect in Leicester. http://bit.ly/1EEwPoR

London secret finds: a police station, a clock and a road that got it 'wrong' By Hannah Silverman It's funny how we can walk the same routes regularly and yet miss so much. Especially in a city like London. Are we just busy and distracted, ignorant and unresearched or simply...

Are you a 'Bogans, Beaches and Beer' traveller or the 'Eat, Pray, Love' kind? Lauren Novak decided on the latter for her latest trip to Bali. Come with us and find your zen: http://bit.ly/1AKPlyj

Your zen is in this jungle (Bali, Indonesia) By Lauren Novak There are stereotypically two kinds of Bali holidays: a) Bogans, Beaches and Beer or b) the Eat, Pray, Love type. For my third visit to the 'Island of Paradise' I decided to tick so...

There's almost a sense Richard III is still reigning in Leicester. Here's what happened when I visited England's city of the moment. http://bit.ly/1JlhFLQ

The Roar of the Roses - what Richard III is doing for tourism By Hannah Silverman There's an excited energy in the city of Leicester, the kind of buzz you experience when you know something big is about to happen. Real big. Like a new city hosting the Olympic...

This weekend I'm off to Leicester, you know, the location where they found Richard III's bones in a car park? But why all the drama? I'll tell you if you pop over to the blog http://bit.ly/1CYoopn

Who was this Richard III character anyway, and why is everybody going to Leicester? By Hannah Silverman Ever since archaeologists dug up his bones in the unglamorous depth of a Leicester car park, Richard III reasserted his right to the crown of controversy. Richard III's death ba...

Imagine if I was only on a two-year VISA... I did, and it would mean being booted out of London this week. Yikes! http://bit.ly/1wfLXCZ

I could have been deported in a few weeks By Hannah Silverman As I began moving into London life at the beginning of 2013 it wasn't long before my fellow Aussie Londoners began moving out. Well, that says a lot about our friendship, doesn'...

Come and take a walk with me through a winter wonderland with an Ode to Central Park in the snow. Parklands don't get much prettier than this cosmopolitan utopia. See for yourself... http://bit.ly/1FGWXUT

An ode to Central Park in the snow (United States of America) By Hannah Silverman Quite unremarkably at first the rain began to fall, varnishing the Fifth Avenue sidewalk and saturating the many American flags that flapped against the luxury flagships it's fa...

Where am I going in 2015? A post about the England I need to meet... http://bit.ly/1yrj6ma

My 2015 bucket list for English travel By Hannah Silverman I know, I know, the tone became a little sombre in recent posts with a lot of reflection and reality. Necessary, of course, but I guess you could say it was my equivalent of an ...

Happy New Year travellers! Wishing you an exciting 2015 filled with adventure, health and happiness. Where were you when the clock struck midnight?

Happy New Year! What did travel in 2014 teach you? http://bit.ly/1I0aNNO

5 lessons I learnt about travel in 2014 By Hannah Silverman I'm very lucky to have scratched some pretty cool cities off the scratchy map this year. I've brought you a handful of these adventures already, but after a little mini blogging...

NEW: Why being away from home at Christmas can make you want to hibernate. If you've been there, felt that, join me on the blog today. http://tinyurl.com/jvpddwy

There's no place like home for Christmas By Hannah Silverman Last Christmas department store John Lewis pumped a lot of millions into an advertising narrative called 'The Bear and the Hare'. It was about a hibernating bear who, if it wasn...

Thanks to everyone who voted for my little space on the internet for the UK Blog Awards. I won't be wearing the crown this time, but thanks so much for your support. Who knows where we'll be this time next year! x

NEW! Do you remember when I told you about the 10 things I didn’t know about New York? Well, I've revisited, added some pretty pics and revealed my discoveries in a whole new post. Find out how wrong I was... http://tinyurl.com/mkxhyaw

10 things I now know about New York (United States of America) By Hannah Silverman Do you remember when I told you about the 10 things I didn't know about New York? Basically, I was banging on about how much we think we know about New York City thanks to its p...

Have you read this yet? Curl up with your mulled wine & read about the diversity of Christmas present http://tinyurl.com/ov8dq8o

Christmas around the world (Italy, Australia, France, Canada, England) Guest post, compiled by Hannah Silverman At the risk of getting all Grinch on you and "stealing" Christmas as you know it, I'm about to state the obvious. Christmas is celebrated completely differe...

Ever wondered how to perfect your travel pose? I don't have the answers, but these guys do... http://tinyurl.com/omscwlr

How to look good in photos - Telegraph From the 'chicken arms' to the 'shy girl', we bring you the ultimate tips and tricks on how to strike the most flattering poses for the camera

Only 24 hours to go!! Thanks to everyone who has already voted for Not in Kansas Anymore in the . If you haven't, and you can spare 1.5 minutes of your life, please follow my convenient little prompts here: http://tinyurl.com/mlrl9u4

Vote for Not in Kansas Anymore! By Hannah Silverman This post is so exciting its headline gets an exclamation point. Yes, I can break the style rules to announce Not in Kansas Anymore has been nominated for two categories in the ...

Bit of trivia for you today, which fictional New Yorkers lived in these homes on our screens?

10 points if you can guess where I (still) am...

Are you exploring England next year? We teamed up with VisitEngland to pick our top 5 historic milestones for 2015. http://tinyurl.com/pj5wq7k

2015, the year of the English milestone By Hannah Silverman There's a lot of chatter about bucket lists and early attempts at new year's resolutions, but England is where the cultural party's at. With more anniversaries than you can flic...

Look what I found in Atlantic City! (Jackpot not included).

Somebody pinch me, it's perfect. The winter wonderland that is Central Park.

The city that doesn't sleep. Who else hearts New York?

NEW: I've been fortunate to not have had any major scares while travelling, however, this one time in Cambodia... http://tinyurl.com/m8orpdf

The first time I freaked out travelling (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) By Hannah Silverman The humidity slapped me in the face as soon as I walked out of the airport, but this wasn't my first startling realisation in Cambodia. It was the fact that this was the first t...

NEW: Depleting oxygen, wet clothes and insomnia. You'll love this guest post by Adelaide journalist Selga Berzins who climbed to Base Camp with her fiancé (and is still getting married!) http://tinyurl.com/l3ko4rn

Guest blog: Surviving Base Camp (Mt Everest, Nepal) By Selga Berzins If you were told that your holiday destination required landing in one of the world's most dangerous airports, you'd probably give it a miss or at least reconsider your holiday loc...

Hi travellers, just a super quick update to let you know there's still a bit of time to visit the beautiful 'Blood Swept Lands And Seas of Red' poppy feature at the Tower of London. 'The Wave' and 'Weeping Willow' will remain until the end of the month, while the rest will be taken down as scheduled today.