Backpacking Europe is pretty much a rite of passage for young Aussies. Straight after finishing high school or university, you take a “gap year” – delay so-called “real life” and head off on an overseas adventure. The saga usually begins with a couple of months hard labour, working every shift offered to you in hospitality […]
Snow Queen
For the best part of a week I have been freezing my backside off somewhere in the Siberian countryside. Okay, let’s be more accurate; freezing my butt off in a small ski-resort town of northern Japan. Every year, every winter, there is a select portion of the community that thinks it would be fab to […]
Return to Oz
The damp air greeted the husband and I when we returned once again to the island somewhere around 11pm last Sunday night. We always take the same flight to and from the island. Although the plane itself is cramped with a distinct absence of seat pocket to store your book or magazine (despite it technically […]
A Tale of Two Road Trips (Part 2)
If Road Trip 1 was about the need to drive, then Road Trip 2 was most definitely about beautiful views. Rather than being the goal, driving was instead the tool necessary for us to inhale the views I had been sighing over in photographs for the last few months. After an extended flight via Philadelphia, […]
A Tale of Two Road Trips (Part 1)
Some three (ish) years ago (March 2013) the husband and I were organizing our wedding, and therefore also organizing the all-important honeymoon. For about a year leading up to that time I had been filled with a somewhat-irrational desire to drive. Just drive, without predetermined destination or finish. This desire included romantic thoughts of driving for months without […]
Travelling, travelling
The greatest benefit provided by this place is, for the husband and I, the opportunity to travel. So far, I am finding it impossible to quench the desire to see beautiful places. The need is absolutely insatiable. Our latest adventure took us back to South America, this time to Peru – a place I had […]