The last leg! In this last stretch of our adventure around half of Australia we loose our tent in a storm (while we’re still in it), head inland to the incredible Flinders Ranges, a snake launches itself at me (!) and we drive the Great...
Sunday Musings: Birthdays Away. Do you like to get away for your birthday or would you rather spend it at home with all your friends and family around? This might sound completely antisocial but I love to escape, I want my birthday to be an...
I’m as passionate about wildlife as I am about travel and cake! On all of our travelling adventures we’ve seen and searched out some incredible wildlife experiences and I thought I’d share five of them here with you today. These wildlife spectacles have made my...
Albany to Ceduna, crossing the Nullarbor This next leg of our half-circumnavigation of Australia took us from Albany in south Western Australia to Ceduna just over the border in South Australia. One thousand and fifteen kilometres in ten days, across the infamous Nullarbor plain, and...
Homes with Wheels: my life in camper vans. It’s been six months now that we have been living in our truck camper. Our adventure in Shetland last month set me thinking about my previous campers: how those different vehicles have shaped my travels and my...
Fremantle to Albany. We had been on the road for almost four weeks on the day we left Fremantle, Perth had seemed so far away when we set off from Broome back then and now continuing the journey to Melbourne seemed unimaginably long: we had...
Kalbarri to Perth It’s not every day that you meet a princess, and a princess called Shirley at that! Princess Shirley stamped our passports into, and out of, the Hutt River Province: a marvellous ‘Kingdom’ in Western Australia – or, to you and me, a...
Shark Bay Stromatolites and Dolphins Bill Bryson’s witty travel jaunt Down Under had filled my head with Australia-infused wanderlust from the moment I read it, and driving up the dusty red road towards the Hamelin Pool Telegraph Station and Campground we were both filled with...
Cape Range National Park The week we spent in the Cape Range National Park is one of the greatest weeks of my life, I’m so happy to share this extraordinary place and our experiences there with you! Continuing on with our Aussie road trip from...
In August 2008 we embarked on an epic road trip from Broome, in Western Australia, to Melbourne. A journey that would take 2 months and over 9000 kilometres, hugging the coastline. Our trusty overland vehicle wasn’t the robust stead we were hoping for, our budget...
I’d like to tell you a little story. It involves two British vagabonds in New Zealand, a tiny camper van and a sparrow called Jack {what else could we possibly call it? although it did turn out to be a girl!}. One of the greatest...
This is my first attempt at iced cookies, I have wanted to try them for a while, there are so many beautiful examples online and in magazines. They have always seemed time-consuming though, so I thought I’d wait for a rainy few days for the...
