After eighteen months and eight days, it was time to come home. It’s the part most people dread – how will they fall back into a routine after such a sporadic adventure? How will anyone understand what they’ve been through, and how they’ve changed as a person? Can you really settle into a “real” job …
One of my absolute favourite things about Australia is the wildlife. So much of it is unique to Australia, which makes it infinitely more fascinating than… say, the squirrels and rabbits back home. So when I found out that the Mackay region has a beach where you can hang out with kangaroos, I instantly added …
We left Cairns fairly quickly – in total, we spent less than three days in the town before continuing our journey north to Port Douglas and the Daintree national park, eventually planning to hit Cape Tribulation. The drive was a stunning coastal road most of the way up (no pictures unfortunately), and we had time for a… Continue reading Surrounding Cairns: Beaches, Rainforests & Waterfalls
So I just slipped off the radar for a few weeks there – the reason? I actually got a last minute job working in a country pub in the middle of the, well, country. This meant no internet apart from a little bit of data, and made it nigh on impossible to do any updates …
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 …
After months of travelling around hostels and changing beds every few days, we were looking forward to settling down in Brisbane and getting our own apartment. We spent five weeks (four weeks too many) living in a central hostel with a party atmosphere before moving to a laid-back “sharehouse”-type hostel closer to my work. Cut …
It had been on the cards for months, but it was only days before Christmas that we decided we’d definitely be going to Sydney for New Years. It was all dependent on two friends and their car, and after the stress of Christmas, we still had no idea if it would go ahead – and …
In my final instalment of travel budget posts (for now!) I’m covering lots of tried and tested ways in which you can save WHILE you travel. From food to accommodation to flights, here are 12 ways you can save on the road! 1. Eat street food Some people shy away from street stalls and I …
Australia is notoriously expensive for travelling; another reason amongst many to work and travel in this vast country. We therefore arrived bracing ourselves for the costs, particularly after our cheap as chips travel in Asia. In fact, the first thing I did was go to buy a bottle of water at the airport – a …
Everyone’s heard of Australia Zoo – founded by Steve Irwin’s parents, it became as legendary as he did; it’s one of the biggest tourist attractions in the country, and it’s near the top of my to-do list in the land down under. There are several other wildlife parks and sanctuaries here that have crept up …
