Here is where you will find all my musings, rantings, ravings and other blog posts sharing random thoughts. Mostly these are all travel related, but once in a while I will feel strongly about something and want to share it.
You will also find some of my earliest blog posts if you dig deeply enough. You can sneakily take a look back at how truely awful some of them were. Sadly (or not!) I deleted the worst ones a couple of years ago, so even these are not as bad as it got!
I have debated long and hard as to whether I was going to share the lemon that life has recently thrown at me. This is a travel blog, it’s all about far flung locations and wild adventures. But my life for the next few months (with one short exception) is probably going to be as … Read more
You know that travel quote “I haven’t been everywhere – but it’s on my list” from Susan Sontag? Well, it might be cliched, but that really is what it’s like for me. I just love to travel, to explore, to find new places and see new things. I’m also a bit of a list-checker! I … Read more
I’ve been meaning to write this post for months now. I think when we got home from our trip in May 2018 there were just so many other things I wanted to do and say on my blog it just kind got pushed to the side. In retrospect, that was probably a good thing as … Read more
As a travel blogger I am often asked lots of questions when people are planning their travels. Some are easy to answer, but there are a whole pile that are really difficult. Here I have put together a few of those common travel questions. I explain why it is hard for me to answer them, … Read more
We all have reasons we travel. Bookcrossing allows me to go somewhere new, meet up with friends and do something fun.
You’re sitting at home dealing with the same dreary old things day in and day out, but all you really want to do is get on a plane. That travel bug is truely under your skin and you are just itching to travel. You want to explore somewhere new, try strange foods and see amazing … Read more
Are you still working on your 2019 travel wishlist? Maybe you are a last minute kind of person, so won’t actually decide until weeks before your trip. Or maybe you are more like me, already working on plans for 2020! While my 2019 plans are not yet totally set in stone, here are the places … Read more
We all know things go wrong when we travel. We travelled for over a year through forty countries and were lucky we didn’t have anything really disastrous occur, but there were definitely some things we did wrong and other things that went wrong that were out of our control. Here are the ten worst things … Read more
Today marks six months since I have left the comfort of the house I have lived in for 20+ years in Adelaide, Australia. We are just short of the half way mark of our trip and I thought it might be fun to share with you all some statistics and some of the things I … Read more
I went to Paris (three times!) – and didn’t go inside the Louvre. There you have it, my shameful secret. I’m fairly sure everyone who visits Paris for the first time goes to see Mona Lisa. I really have no excuse. I was even in Paris on the first Sunday of the month when entry … Read more