Bali, Indonesia is a beautiful and very popular destination for a relaxing tropical getaway. There are countless blogs and websites detailing itineraries and fun things to do. Just make sure you don't miss these eight things. 1.Spend A Day With The Monkeys Probably very overdone in Bali photos... but I wanted that damn monkey on … Continue reading A Bali Escape – What You Can’t Miss
It's been a crazy two months living it up on my own tropical island. So many changes and new faces and a new timetable and climate to get accustomed to that I haven't felt the words to write what I've been up to or what I've been feeling. But as it's the new year, and … Continue reading Living on a Sand Island (and why you should visit)
As most travellers do when researching the best things to do in Vietnam- I had trekking the Sapa rice fields as one of my top anticipated things to experience. Both Halong Bay boat tours and the three day Sapa trekking trips are the most popular tours to be done in the north of Vietnam and … Continue reading Trekking the Sapa Rice Fields
To any of you that have been following my travels over the past few years, you'll know that I've been lucky enough to call London my home for the past two years. I have loved everything about living in this crazy huge city (with the exception of spending the morning in a squished tube with … Continue reading Continuing The Detour – On To The Next Adventure
You can have every little detail of your trip planned. Every hotel, every transfer, every activity and day tour booked, but some days ol’ mother nature decides to come by and ruin your plans. To say the weather I had on my last trip to Galway, Ireland was dreary is a colossal understatement. During the … Continue reading When the Weather Ruins Your Travel Plans
I think I've always had pretty restless feet, it's only in the last few years that I've actually had the courage (or the sense) to actually act on that. You only have to look at my Linked In profile to see that even when I was safely tucked away in my little hamlet of Brisbane, … Continue reading Restless Feet
What a crazy year. This month marks my one-year, my half way, my middle point into my two year visa as an Australian expat in the U.K. This year has been an insane range of emotions from crazy highs and happiness to small bouts of stress and loneliness. My detour so far has been the … Continue reading 1 Year Into The Detour – Reflecting On A Year As An Expat
Sometimes being an expat is just downright suck-y. Most of the time living in another country is all excitement, new friends, new places and busy, crazy weekends exploring; however there are those other times when things are a little less rosy. 1.When Your Friends Back Home Don't Get It London makes you very, very poor, … Continue reading The Worst Thing About Being An Expat
Shout out to my mum for coming with me (or for letting me crash her solo trip) to the highlands of Scotland & the Isle of Skye on my latest trip. My mother is an extraordinarily loving (even if sometimes slightly too formal), hard working, strong, resilient, selfless and adorably cute woman and being away … Continue reading Why You Should Travel With Your Mum
London Summer has been just as I predicted - and as I was told by many disgruntled locals and tourists. 'You'll get about a week of Summer a year, and up to about 25 degrees tops!'. Finally, on a weekend trip to Brighton, Summer came in a big way. I had been planning to make … Continue reading A Weekend In The Sun – Brighton, UK
