Wanting to find the best small 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 […]
Romania Itinerary
Why go to Romania? Unless you’re really into Dracula, Vlad the Impaler or Count Duckula, it’s probably fair to say Romania isn’t top of the travel list for most people (excluding of course those weird millennials who buy the “scratch maps” so they can tick off every country in the world – and yes, apparently […]
Best American Road Trip (Seattle-Yellowstone)
The American Road Trip. 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. […]
Two Weeks in Peru
For many, Peru is THE South American experience and the best parts are easily done in two weeks. 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 […]
Hiking Kilimanjaro
Want to try hiking Kilimanjaro? 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 […]
Best of Eastern Europe
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 […]
Two Weeks in 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 […]
Hiking in 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 – […]