A family guide to Cairns and The Great Barrier Reef (with kids)

Since 2020, covid has slammed shut international borders and in (already isolated) Australia we’ve become a hermit nation. A forbidden land down under, ‘saved’ by sheer distance from everything else and padded by the safety of the Pacific and Indian oceans to keep covid out. Read More …

The Grampians One Day Adventure Itinerary

Flat plains sprawl far and wide, west of Melbourne. Grassy paddocks and bald hills, peppered with woolly sheep relentlessly stretch to the horizon, sliced perfectly by the divided highway. Just two hours out of Melbourne, the landscape starts to shift as massive wind farms appear Read More …

Travelling after Graduation is Good for your Mental Health and your Pocket

Travel, in general, is good for your mental health, according to Jean Kim, M.D., an expert in cultural psychology –  but it can be good for your pocket too. However, with news reports saying that 30% of Australian undergraduates leave university without any job prospects, the idea of Read More …

Back to the Philippines: Expedition Day 1

After 9 years of regularly travelling the globe on business trips peppered scarcely with holidays limited to my annual leave balance… I’m finally on a flight where my true purpose is to travel, experience and write. For a travel blogger, it’s actually been a while! Read More …

3 Reasons Why Volunteering Abroad is The New Road Less Travelled

Across the world, tourism is on the rise. The ever-increasing spending power and disposable income of populations across the world mean that more people than ever are choosing to explore different parts of the globe. And who can blame them? Travelling is one of the Read More …