Category Archive: travel

Something You Said’s guide to Budapest

There is a saying that is pretty much banned at Somethingyousaid.com It’s used by people with the imagination of a puddle when they see a building that is somewhat grungy and adorned with graffiti. They… Read More

Win Free Tickets To SPIN London!

If you consider there to be few things hotter than a well-dressed lady/fellow riding a nice bicycle, then you should probably get yourself along to the world’s first urban-focused bicycle consumer show &… Read More

A Place Where No Cars Go

Somethingyousaid.com’s Tenley Nordstrom learns the value of a machete: When I close my eyes and think of my happy place, I think of Bastimentos, Panama. I think of the sun dancing off of the… Read More

24 Hours in Ho Chi Minh City

Somethingyousaid.com headed to Ho Chi Minh City, just about managed to avoid being involved in numerous traffic accidents and achieved bugger-all sleep: I asked a friend who used to live in Vietnam “What’s Ho… Read More

Landscape/Displacement, by Isidore Tillers

Classical musician and writer, Isidore Tillers, makes her somethingyousaid.com debut by telling us how it feels to be an Australian shivering amid subzero temperatures in Germany: As I sit here and write, tiny… Read More

Massive European Festival Update!

It’s that mega-exciting time of year where Europe starts gearing itself up for festival season and we start booking our summer excursions so that we can catch our favourite musicians in the sun-shiiiiiiine. So we… Read More

Getting Awkwardly Naked in Morocco

Jess O’Callaghan gets nekkid: I barely know how to handle myself in the changing room of a swimming pool in Australia, where women huddle against the wall and slip their underwear back on… Read More

Polpo is humble and delicious

Polpo is a bacaro, which is a Venetian word used to describe a humble restaurant serving simple food alongside good, young local wines. I had chanced upon a favourable review about Polpo some… Read More

In a Pickle: Street Food in Istanbul

Today, Farz Edraki makes her SYS debut by getting all in a pickle on the streets of Turkey: Fishermen on the pier unhook their daily catch from fishing lines; a family prepare to walk the… Read More