HELLO VIETNAM, land of promised bahn mis, pointy hats and pretty lanterns. We are in Ho Cho Minh city and it is NUTS. The traffic is like...

We arrive in Siem Reap late at night and then have to wait to get through the lined row of stern uniformed stamping officials (no smiling...

DISCLAIMER: I was, to be frank, a pretty hungry, grouchy traveller for the 2 weeks we were in the Philippines, so I’ve tried to keep this...

Another Selamat Pagi to ya'll! (In Malaysia they speak the Malay version of Bahasa, similar to Bahasa Indonesia, so you've heard it once,...

~HELLO! LONG TIME NO WRITEY. Because of an acute perfectionist problemo and the fact that I wrote this weeks (months?) ago but never got...

We have arrived in Bali! In true pathetic fallacy we leave Coolum in the middle of the night in the pouring rain. The flight is longer...

Torn between jubilation at being back on the Sunshine Coast with Lorrae and Phil and crushing humiliation at having underestimated just...

FIRST THINGS FIRST - you may remember Glenn, of the worldy advice, from blog post five. Nat and I were delighted to discover that he MADE...

The first thing you must know is that Byron Bay is a very chilled out town, everyone wears long flowing skirts and crochet crop tops,...

We arrive in Sydney pining for New Zealand ("My new favourite country in the world EVER" - Nat) and head to our Air BnB in Surry Hills....

We catch our first BUS in New Zealand out of Rotorua to Matamata and I'm secretly quite relieved to have a break from roadside...

I finished off the last post with our worst on-record hitch-hiking performance in Kaikoura - one hour thirty minutes of people speeding...

After a night of coercing Nat into watching Bird Box with me (4/10), we hitch out of Queenstown the next morning with Rod (I don't THINK...

We arrive in Queenstown after a three hour flight from Melbourne and have a bit of an incident with our apples. Incredibly strict New...

We started off our week of fun at a great Australia Day party in Lameroo with Nat's uncle Stuie and Stuie's friends. I witnessed rum...

SO, you're here to hear the sorry tale of my Eleven Symptoms (if you haven't already) and our second week in Australia. To continue where...

It is a cold, dark evening on Saturday 13th January. Armed with too many toiletries, not enough underwear, 200 plasters (never...