So what have I been doing on Kangaroo Island, just off Adelaide via Cape Jervis? Staying with an old friend/employer from my 23 year spent in Adelaide, Paul and his partner Charmaine, at a beautiful setting Molly's Run up near Smith Bay on the north coast. About half hour out of Kingscote, a small seaside …
Category: Travel Blog 2015-16
Journal entries from my year out solo backpacking round the world August 2015-June 2016
The Tour Down Under
I have never seen or even really wanted to see the Tour de France, even when it came to the UK in 2014. But here, so close, Sue and I went into the city to see it and I loved it! I made her walk around, different views from a corner, a square and the …
Fleurieu Peninsula with the boys!
Riding toward and through Yankallilla, a small country township with a few shops and houses, not much beyond the main road through, we stopped at the bakery where I had an Aussie special, the pepper steak pie!! Quite hit and spicy, newly made each batch, there are lots of pie types available - the Aussie …
Adelaide family reunion
I couldn’t come to Australia without seeing my family, who have been here for 27 and 46 years respectively! We see each other every few years but not often for as long as the five weeks I spent there with them. Staying with my youngest sister (I'm the 'baby'…) mainly, it was luxury to have …
Unique Fraser Island – an island like no other
Cody trees and also where the idea of army camouflage was created to blend with the tree colourings - cool! This is a unique place in the world! I feel privileged to visit, and became interested on my travels when I met three guys who lived there and hadn’t heard of it, then various references …
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The Sunshine Coast
Such stunning scenery, beaches, sea (sea you cant swim in) and weird culture - close down by 8pm and nowhere to eat in Noosa, lovely river life on boats and my first experience of the updated McDonalds automatic booking and 'loaded fries'! Having met Bex in Don Det and then Siem Reap, she invited me …
Northern Queensland
Well, arrived from Cairns to Darwin 28 Nov -2 Dec (weird with hot December, Christmas shopping in shorts and putting up decorations in a vest top!!) and its so humid in Darwin, one day I felt unable to breathe easily for a minute as I Stepped out the door! Darwin is different, a town still …
TEFL for travel
Teaching English as a Foreign Language was a short course I took in Manchester prior to leaving for my own year long travel trip around the world, in case I could use it or needed to earn money - even in case I didn't want to come back at the end of the year! I …
Missing exploration
Many people have had their travel plans 'scuppered' with the pandemic and lockdowns. Maybe you. Me included. I missed the planned holiday in Palma, Spain at the end of March as lockdown started, still awaiting refund of my deposit from Ryanair, or potential future holiday when it re settles to the 'new normal'. I did, …
My Maniti Expedition Tour
Whilst in Iquitos, as I said, I stayed in two places - one basic hostel that coincidentally was actually next door to Maniti Expedition offices I realised when I was called to the desk for a visitor! In Iquitos, the middle of nowhere - who could it be? It was the young man from there …
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