Hi there! I’m Ailsa Prideaux-Mooney. I’ve lived in many places, and travelled to many more. I had a lot of fun getting there and being there, wherever there happened to be at the time. I climbed a castle wall in Czesky Krumlov, abseiled down cliffs to go caving in the west of Ireland, slept on the beach in Paros, got chased by a swarm of bees in Vourvourou (ok that wasn’t fun, but it was exciting), learned flower arranging in Tokyo, found myself in the middle of a riot in Seoul, learned to snowboard in Salzburg, got lost in a labyrinth in Budapest and had my ice cream stolen by a gull in Cornwall.
And I’m just getting started.
If you’ve enjoyed what you’ve read so far, I’d love you to follow my travelogue. Remember, anyone who tries to tell you it’s a small world hasn’t tried to see it all.
Where's my backpack? 
Hi you prolly get a lot of this but I’m still nominating you for the sunshine award
it’s ok whether you choose to participate or not. I’d still love your blog anyway ^^ cheers!
Yaay, thanks so much, kz, I really appreciate that you took the time to nominate me and to let me know. Congrats on your award too! xoxo Ailsa
you deserve it. your photos are beautiful & your challenges are way cool! keep bloggin’ ❤
🙂
This is for all the hard work you do: http://laavventura.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/the-reality-and-100-affidabile-reliable-blog-awards/#more-5677
Woohoo, thanks so much Jennifer, I’ve got a big grin on my face right now. Congrats on your awards too! xoxo Ailsa
Hi Ailsa, congratulations!
I have nominated your blog for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award.
The rules of that award are at
Enjoy!
Hurrah, thank you so much, petrel41, and congrats on your award too! xxx Ailsa
Thanks for your kind words! All the best for you and your blog 🙂
Hi Ailsa,
We have nominated you for the Inspiring Blogger Award. Keep up the good work!
Aaron & Jo
Yaay, thanks you guys! xoxo Ailsa
You’re welcome – it’s well deserved xx
I love yr photos. im trying to like or follow but I.dont see where I can
Hi beuniqvbh56, so glad you like my travelogue, you can follow via WordPress reader by hitting the ‘follow’ button on the top of the page, but you can also follow by RSS or email on the top right hand side. xxx Ailsa
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Dearest Ailsa, Good morning! Today I was happily surprised to find out that I was nominated by a fellow blogger for the “Very Inspiring Blogger” Award. This involves some kind of participation (as you probably already know)! One of the things I had to do was to propose 15 bloggers for the same award. Truth is, that you have a very inspiring blog and I ‘m always looking forward to your challenges! So, there you go my friend! Participate! http://goomfh.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/728/ This is a link to my page, where you will find the instructions! Thank you for being such an inspiration to me! 🙂
Hurrah, thanks so much for the shout out, masadiso79, I am just getting caught up on comments now, it’s been pretty busy here! Congrats on your award too, my friend, and Happy New Year! xxx Ailsa
I have nominated you for the Liebster Blog Award. You have been such an inspiration to me and I enjoy your weekly challenges. Please accept it and see the rules at http://miljoanne.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/liebster-blog-award/ … Thank you!
I love your blog and the photos from your adventures! I’ll look forward to keeping up with your journeys from mine.
I nominated you for the Blog of the Year award. You can see it at http://ahecticlife.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/blog-of-the-year-award/
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I love your blog! Certainly not jealous about that US road trip….
I’ll be around in the future 😉
Yaay, looking forward to seeing you around, apron6. Just getting caught up on comments, been travelling! 🙂
Hope you had a good time traveling around 😉
Enjoyed your writing.
Thanks smbrannan, I’m glad you enjoyed your visit over here with me and my backpack!
I keep seeing your blog popping up in other people’s posts re:travel themes… Figured it was high time I paid a visit 🙂
Those Cornish gulls are the worst, by the way!
Hurray, thanks for the visit, Lu, yes, those Cornish gulls are total gangsters! Happy New Year to you! xxx Ailsa
Great blog! I just participated in the Weekly Travel Theme for the first time 🙂
Ailsa,it’s time to acknowledge the enormous role your Travel Theme challenges play in my blogging life – please accept a star for your Blog of the Year – 2012
No pressure – this is just my way of thanking you for the stimulation and exposure participation in your weekly challenges gives me. 🙂
Ailsa,it’s time to acknowledge the inspiring role your Travel Theme challenges play in my blogging life – please accept another star for your Blog of the Year – 2012
No pressure – this is just my way of thanking you for the stimulation and exposure participation in your weekly challenges gives me.
Another award! http://the-travelbunny.com/awards-2/
I hope that you will accept this Very Inspiring Blogger Award – I truly enjoy visiting your blogsite for it’s inspiring images and stories. Please refer to: http://motionphotographyonline.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/very-inspiring-blogger-award/
Hello. I nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. Please stop by and check it out here: http://debdundas.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/very-inspiring-blogger-nomination/
Josh here from the BlinkPack blog. We have decided to award you our very first BlinkPack Travel Blog Award. We just love the blog and want to recognize your fantastic storytelling ability by featuring you on our blog. We expect nothing in return.
You can view our post about your blog here:
I hope it brings you even more success, and we wish you all the best with your travels and blogging. Cheers!
Yaay, thank you so much! I’m playing catch up on all my comments, it’s been quite busy on my travelogue recently. Just popped over to say thank you on your post. Love it! Happy New Year to you! xxx Ailsa
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Thank you for being such an inspiration to me…I have nominated you for the Blog of the Year 2012 award. You can check out your link here http://viewsofmyworld.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/blog-of-the-year-awards/ and I would be honored if you would accept the award 🙂
~Lyann
Wow talk about adventure! 🙂
You’ve probably got about 6 of these lurking about, but I thought I should add another!
Just to start the New Year off right, there is an Award waiting for you at http://acrossthebored.com/2012/12/30/awards-christmas-comes-twice-this-year/
Whether you choose to participate or not, please know that Across the Bored finds inspiration, entertainment, enlightenment and good company in your blog. Thanks for being a presence in our virtual reality!
Hi, i love traveling but i wish i can travel easily like you….coming from third world country, we have limitation in terms of flexibility in traveling such as visa and work holidays…its a hindrance really for a travel addict like myself as i cant work and travel at the same time abroad….but at least im inspired reading your blog…..
“Remember, anyone who tries to tell you it’s a small world hasn’t tried to see it all.”
–I love this. 🙂 I’d love to see more of your travels! More power! 🙂
Happy New Year to you, msjfreckles! 🙂
And to you as well, Ailsa! 🙂
Hi Ailsa,
Enjoy your travels and come to Singapore some time 🙂
Happy New Year, radhika25, I definitely plan on visiting Singapore sometime, just not sure when. So many places out there! 🙂
Hi Alisa,
I’m not sure how I will catch up on all your posts about previous travels, but I’ll look forward to the challenge! Sheesh … and I thought my solo motorcycle rides were exciting!!
Hey Bucky, solo motorcycle rides are super exciting, yaay, just followed you so I can read about your travels too.So glad you found my site so I could finds yours too 🙂
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Ailsa, how do you make your header change with each post? I totally love it, and you always choose amazing attention-getting photos that seem to fit the horizontal format perfectly! Is it that your theme includes this feature?
Hey Trish, it’s a feature on some WordPress themes – 2010 and 2011 have it for sure – when you go to your ‘upload media’ section there’s a button called ‘featured’ image which you can select and then choose the image you want to be in your header. I love being able to customize the header. 🙂
Hi Ailsa…you sure do have a lovely blog here with great photographs…. really lovely,,…
Thanks Jeny, glad you enjoyed your visit! xxx Ailsa
Ah, sorry about the ice cream in Cornwall! Root cause is all the tourists that insist on feeding them which make them predatory. You learn to either not eat outside or to adopt a strange hunched position:)
Haha, hindsight is 20/20 vision – next time I go, I’ll be sure to be prepared! 🙂
You have a very nice travel blog. Great pictures!
Thanks Mike 🙂
We’ve nominated your blog for an award (or two, or three…), if you accept them. If not, just consider it a token of our esteem! 🙂 See our post at http://windagainstcurrent.com/2013/01/13/award-appreciation-we-thank-our-readers-for/
(Sorry about this form letter, Ailsa. Too many blogs to visit, too little time, as I am sure you know 😉 )
Oh I know what you mean, Vlad, I’m failing miserably at keeping up 🙂 Thanks for the shout out, gosh you’ve got a whole wardrobe of awards there! xxx
I have nominated you for the Reality Blog Award. Your blog has been an inspiration to me to stretch myself and communicate with the world at large. We see glimpses of ourselves in others and it has been my pleasure to follow your blog and gain insight into your world and mine.
If you choose to accept you are asked to answer 5 questions and nominate no more than 20 fellow bloggers (the total number of nominations is up to you). I realize the time commitment associated with this award and understand if it is something that you do not wish to do.
Here are the questions:
1) If you could change one thing, what would you change?
2) If you could repeat an age, what age would it be?
3) What one thing really scares you?
4) What is one dream you have not completed, and do you think you’ll be able to complete it?
5) If you could be someone else for one day, who would it be?
Thanks for taking time to like my post in the midst of all your adventures!
Thanks for the like on my blog Alisa. Travelling places opens the mind. Stepping outside your comfort zone is not always a bad thing. It’s also led me to publishing my first book out very soon. Keep up the good work.
Congrats on the new book, Danthonia, and thanks for the visit. Happy travels! xxx
Your blog is making me want to pack my bags and get out there! The next best thing to actually doing that is your blog! Thanks!
Thanks Trey – I hope you do decide to pack your bags and get out there (even just for a weekend!) 🙂
Aisla: I have enjoyed many of your posts and pictures – what fun. Glad to meet another who has been to Czesky Krumlov!
I’m sure I will enjoy your travels…I too love to travel but can’t say I’ve had your amazing experiences!
Ailsa – your blog is just stunning! It’s something I aspire for my blog to eventually become. Love love love it all xx
Ailsa – your blog is just stunning! It’s something I aspire for my blog to eventually become. Love love love it all xxx
Thank you so much, Ally, I’m so happy you’re along for the adventure! I see you have two blogs going, that’s going to keep you busy. Food and travel make the perfect combination, that Austrian Raspberry Shortbread looks crazy good! I’m hungry now. 🙂
Congratulations! I love your blog and have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award.
However, there are rules and I won’t be offended if you don’t want to follow them. I just wanted to share your blog with others.
Ana (http://jubileejourney.wordpress.com)
I love your caption under the blog name
Ah yes, my romancing the planet tagline – I’m quite fond of that, it’s how I travel 🙂
So glad I stumbled upon your blog through the challenges you post. I, too, love traveling, although I haven’t had the wide variety of experiences you’ve had. And since I’m older, I’m trying to enjoy/appreciate the world around me, too! Will enjoy following your blog! http://ohtheplaceswesee.com
Hi Rusha, so glad you found my site, and I’m happy to hear you’re enjoying following my adventures. xxx Ailsa
Your well traveled blog is an inspiration… I just found your Best Road Trip Songs post and that took about an hour to fully appreciate and digest! (including all the great comments and additional suggestions). I am itching to head out on the highway for our next road trip but summer still seems pretty far away.
Hi Pamela, your comment just made me revisit that post and now I’m humming Route 66 and itching to get back on the road myself. 🙂
Hi Alisha. I love reading and viewing other people’s travel photos. Yours is very nice. I will be leaving to Southeast Asia in a couple of days for about a month. Hopefully, I can participate in your weekly themes when I get back.
Hi there, theprosaictraveller, I hope you have fun in Southeast Asia, what a great part of the world to be travelling to, I haven’t made it there yet. Looking forward to hearing about it when you get back!
It’s a huge, expansive world and we are mere peons. Travel is so great for putting things in perspective!
I agree wholeheartedly, belladonic haze. xxx Ailsa