I lived and travelled in Australia for just over a year in 2015/2016! We started and ended in Brisbane, which became my home for six months. We also visited Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and road tripped pretty much the entire east coast for a month. There is SO much more of Australia that I want to see, and I’m sure we will be back, if just to road trip the hell out of the country.
View all my posts on Australia here!
My top 5:
⭐ 50 Signs You’ve Been A Backpacker In Australia
⭐ Three Days In Melbourne
⭐ Driving On Beaches And Swimming In Lakes On Fraser Island
⭐ Spotting Wildlife In Mackay: Platypuses & Kangaroos At Sunrise
⭐ My Ultimate Budgeting Guide For Your Backpacking Trip To Australia
Read the rest below! ↓
I’ve had a week of throwbacks to Australia this week, which was started by a friend on Twitter asking people to post their favourite beach photos. I thought of Thailand, I thought of Portugal – I even thought of Scotland. But the one I couldn’t get my mind away from was Australia, and therein lay …
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 …
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 …
There are some posts for this blog that have been sitting in my drafts folder for over a year. It’s not just because I’ve lacked the inspiration for writing them; it’s because, for posts like this, I feel like an idiot traveller. An idiot abroad, if you will, which is actually what this blog was …
Last week marked a year since we left Australia. *splutters tea everywhere* Sorry, WHAT?! Considering it feels like last week that we arrived in Australia, to think it’s been a year since we left the country 14 months later… my brain is struggling to comprehend whether it’s actually working. Needless to say, there’s a lot that …
After more than a year in the land down under, I’ve had a few stories to tell and plenty of memories to share. I have a few things I still want to write about Australia (and lots of things I still want to do), but I thought I’d start with a summary that I’ve been …
You hear it all the time. Everything in Australia wants to kill you. I’m not gonna lie, guys: I’ve wanted to visit Australia for as long as I can remember, but I’ve always been terrified of the idea of spiders the size of dinner plates and crocodiles biting your arm off and snakes hiding in …
Well, 2016. I believe you’ve been quite the shitter for a rather large proportion of people on the planet. Between political disasters and some seriously shocking celebrity deaths (think Alan Rickman was the worst one for me, although he’s probably sitting on a beach somewhere earning his 20%), it’s not been one of the best …
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 …
One of the most popular means of temporarily living abroad is doing a working holiday in Australia. You can see why it’s popular – the visa is easy for many nationalities to get, it’s a trip into sunshine while earning money, it’s a very easy country to travel, it’s aimed at young people (the age …
