Guess what, everybody - WE FINALLY MADE IT TO JAPAN!!! Four years after we were originally due to fly out, we finally landed in the one bucket-list destination that kept trying to get away from us! It goes without saying that Japan lived up to every hype. It's incredible in so many different ways to… Continue reading My Top 10 Highlights Of Our Trip To Japan
Category: asia
My Top 10 Favourite Cities
As an island girl who was raised on a farm and rarely visited anywhere larger than Aberdeen as a child, I'm not much of a city person. Things have clearly changed, given that I've lived in two cities in the past year, but still - give me a mountain or island any day, or even… Continue reading My Top 10 Favourite Cities
10 Countries I Want To Go Back To
I've been reminiscing a lot recently. I've also been looking forward to the next few months, and the realisation that I'll be 30 at the beginning of next year made me think of my gradually-forgotten goal of visiting 30 countries, which I assumed would be long reached by now. The truth is, I stopped country-counting… Continue reading 10 Countries I Want To Go Back To
My Top 5 Places In Thailand (And 5 Places For Next Time)
It's been a while since I wrote about Thailand, but it's one of the countries from our travels I'm always thinking about and wistfully yearning to return to. I realised recently that although I wrote a highlights post for South East Asia in general, I never wrote one specifically for Thailand, despite it being one… Continue reading My Top 5 Places In Thailand (And 5 Places For Next Time)
Photo Friday: My 50 Favourite Photos From 18 Months Of Travel
Happy Friday, and a very merry Christmas Eve eve! Before we delve into my best of 2016 post, I've been meaning to do this one for a while - a huge photo essay of our 18 month trip around the world! Throughout 2015 and 2016, we spent three months exploring South East Asia followed by… Continue reading Photo Friday: My 50 Favourite Photos From 18 Months Of Travel
A Year Of Travel: My Highlights
It feels strange to say that we've been travelling for a year. Because, I suppose, we haven't. It's a year since we left the UK, sure, but we've made a little home for ourselves in the sub-tropical city of Brisbane, and while we've been making various trips around Australia, it's not been the full-on travel… Continue reading A Year Of Travel: My Highlights
Budgeting For Your Southeast Asia Trip
In this post, I'm going to outline exactly how much this part of the trip cost us, and hopefully it will help some of you to budget what you need. I've been working on this for a while and meant to post it along with my other budgeting guides but didn't think it was ready.… Continue reading Budgeting For Your Southeast Asia Trip
Photo Friday: Sunsets In Asia & Australia
While we were in Asia, we saw our fair share of incredible sunsets. But then we came to Australia and every sunset blew Asia out of the water. These are taken from the 3 nights of our drive from Sydney to Mildura. And the rest are all around Mildura and Wentworth. I can't wait to… Continue reading Photo Friday: Sunsets In Asia & Australia
My Biggest Regrets In Asia
I posted recently about my favourite experiences in Asia, but I thought I'd post some of my regrets, too! Thankfully I have no major regrets, but there are a few things I wish I'd done differently. 1. Not getting pictures with many of the people I met All throughout our travels, we met incredible people… Continue reading My Biggest Regrets In Asia
My Top 5 Places From Our South East Asia Trip
Our three months backpacking around Asia were a whirlwind of crazy experiences, fantastic food, mesmerising views, mindblowing sunsets, magnificent temples, beautiful beaches and chaotic cities. It's hard to narrow it down to five highlights, because there was hardly anywhere that I didn't love; much less disliked. But there were certain highlights, so here are a… Continue reading My Top 5 Places From Our South East Asia Trip
An Orcadian Abroad 