Road-tripping USA. Just how easy is it. If you actually need an answer to that question, let me tell you: it’s ridiculously easy. So easy in fact, that we’ve driven around more of the place than we have our home country, and we’ve actually just booked another trip there for this coming November. Frankly, there […]
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Chapter 6 – Peru
For many, Peru is THE South American experience. Culture, scenery, history, friendly people – it’s got pretty much everything. Well, everything perhaps except food-tour worthy food, although for the adventurous there’s always the guinea-pig on a stick option. Otherwise, they always do a pretty good pollo a la plancha. For most, the journey to Peru […]
Chapter 5 – Tanzania
Before living in EG, I never had any particular desire to visit Africa, not even to satisfy the popular bucket list item of going on Safari. It was a place in the world that never had any real appeal for me. Coupled with the assumption that Africa was difficult for solo/unguided travel; attracting intrepid, hardcore […]
Chapter 4 – Best Christmas Markets in Europe
Celebrating Christmas in Australia can be tricky to navigate when you’re from a European family. For me, for instance, the lead up to Christmas would traditionally include baking cookies in a wood-fired stove, in 40 degree heat in a house with no air-conditioning, while Bing Crosby dreamed of how fantastic a white Christmas would be. […]
Chapter 3 – The Baltics
Australia is a country of immigrants. It’s therefore not uncommon for Australians to describe themselves as “part-Italian” or “part-Malaysian” or “part-Croatian.” Me, I’m “part-Lithuanian.” Only a very little part mind you – my grandfather was half-Lithuanian, half-Polish (and perhaps even a little Russian). My grandmother was German. In truth, my blood has been so watered […]
Chapter 2 – Mexico
When I was a child, I remember gazing up at a huge map of the world displayed on the wall in my parents’ study, and being drawn to Mexico. I didn’t really know anything about it. I think it was probably the name that attracted me initially – a 3 syllable country with an X […]
Chapter 1 – Chile
Chile was the first trip we took after taking up residence in EG some 4.5 years ago. It seemed to come out of left field when the husband first suggested it. I mean, I did want to go South America, but I had thought we would perhaps start our travels with a closer jaunt – […]
Shall We Travel the World?
Over the past 4 years, I have lost count of the number of countries the husband and I have been privileged to visit. What started out as a temporary assignment (1 year, maybe 2) has morphed into something almost semi-permanent. This – working 10 weeks, travelling for 3, community living on a gated compound, no […]