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
Ever wanted to pack all of your possessions in van (preferably a pretty VW Kombi in a pastel colour) with one of your best friends and road trip to a new country? For a number of years a traveler friend and I have put it on our bucket list that we'll buy a van and … Continue reading Living the Van Life in Wales
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
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
When in Cambridge, live like the students do. My sister and I decided on a whim that we would head to Cambridge and make a proper weekend of it by staying over night. Now, my sister might say that I always leave the accommodation planning to her (occasionally true.. but only because of her ridiculously … Continue reading When In Cambridge, UK
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
Once you've made the long trek boarding flights, boarding connecting flights, landing, waiting for check in luggage, hauling said luggage around, finding airport transfers and you've finally made your way to your hotel/ hostel/ couch/ flat/ park bench (that last one is a joke) and you eventually catch your breath, you'll take a look around … Continue reading So You’re An Expat : How To Set Yourself Up In London
When the sun shines in England, us expats and Londoners are morally obligated to get outside and head to the nearest green space! Primrose Hill has been on my London bucket list for quite some time and today seemed like the perfect lazy, sunny Sunday to make the trek up to North London and gaze … Continue reading Discovering Primrose Hill, London
Bath, UK is an idyllic little town that is beautiful any time of the year. However, it really comes to life in the months prior to Christmas where the streets are filled with Christmas markets, groups of carollers and buskers singing Christmas songs and bright, bright colours everywhere. If you have read many of my … Continue reading An Obnoxious Christmas Child In Bath
