Whilst sitting on Coogee Beach in Sydney one day with some friends, two of them mentioned that their favourite place in the entire world was The Cook Islands. A few weeks later when flights to The Cook Islands went on sale, it seemed like fate to book a trip. The Cook Islands are in the middle […]
After our week in a camper van around Perth (see my previous post), Steph and I caught a flight up to Exmouth. We’d thought about driving all the way up but it would have been a lot of driving and the one-way van rental fees were extortionate. It turned out that this was a blessing […]
When I left my job last November, I thought I would end up doing quite a bit of travelling by myself. It turns out, so far, I have done most of my trips with friends and family. I was expecting to go to Western Australia alone. But just as I was about to book the […]
If you love waking up at 4am and hiking for hours in 38°C heat, then Uluru is the perfect destination for you. Joking aside, Uluru is a pretty special place. I’d loved the idea of the Australian outback since moving to Sydney, but it’s not exactly a typical holiday destination. Fortunately, I have an adventurous […]
After visiting the Abel Tasman National Park, which I talked about in my previous New Zealand blog post, we headed down to Fiordland via Christchurch and Queenstown. Now, I wouldn’t usually write about an airport, but this is a special case. Anyone who knows me well, or even at all, knows that I love ice […]
We visited New Zealand to celebrate my Dad’s 60th birthday. We had been once before as a family, just over ten years ago, and it is my Dad’s favourite place in the entire world (bar Cornwall where we are from). The trip we did back then was totally amazing, but in retrospect we perhaps tried […]
Whilst browsing an Australian Instagram account one day, a photo of endless untouched sand dunes caught my eye. I quickly did some research and discovered that they were Stockton Sand Dunes, just outside of Sydney in a place called Port Stephens. How did I not know that there was a whole Sahara Desert equivalent practically […]
Does it feel like everyone you know right now is going to Iceland? Well, there’s good reason for it. Iceland is amazing. There is no other country that I have been to (yet!) that I would compare to Iceland. I went with my Mum in January just before moving to Australia. It was cold, but […]
After visiting Australia’s Whitehaven Beach in Queensland, I thought I’d never see a beach with such white sand again. I was wrong (it does happen occassionally). When we arrived at Jervis Bay, we stopped in our tracks. We went there thinking it would be a quiet little bay with a few small beaches, and did […]
You know you’ve had a good week when your daily exercise consists of walking the whole 10 metres from the pool to the beach and you have breakfast every morning practically sitting on the sand. That was pretty much our week at Shanti Maurice in Mauritius. I stayed at Shanti Maurice with my family last […]