One year ago today…

I was catching up on Facebook first thing this morning and found something lovely! They’d created a special pop up on my news feed showing me what I’d posted one year ago today which was this… Had they always done this? It’s definitely new to me! It brings back all sorts of warm fuzzy memories…

Pretty in Perth

It was a mostly financial reason that led us to visit Perth as our following flight to Bali was much cheaper from here than from Queensland. That and numerous articles telling us Perth was one of the up and coming cities to visit this year. We didn’t mind though- an old family friend offered to…

Our attempt to see the Great Barrier Reef

Seeing the Great Barrier Reef was a big check box for our trip around the world. Who knows if or when the rising sea temperatures will destroy it? So it was pretty high up on our to do list for Australia. We decided to travel up to Cairns and to a boat tour from there….

Brisbane, Fraser Island and the Sunshine Coast

Part 1. Brisbane Living We didn’t spend much time exploring this city, spending just one day wandering through the cultural South Bank area and through the Queen Street shops, instead spending more time visitng family who we don’t see very often! Our cousin did give us a quick car tour though, going through New Farm,…

Sprint through Sydney

We brought the rain with us from Melbourne to Sydney… And we managed to catch a cab from the airport right in the middle of rush hour meaning a very expensive trip into the city. Perhaps not the best start to our sprint through Sydney.  Cat had chosen the hotel and we ended up at…

Moseying Through Melbourne

Melbourne marked the beginning of our Australian leg of the trip. Now we’d met a few Melbournites on our trip so had a big list of things to squeeze into the three day we had there. Of all the things we were told to do, two really stuck with us- to see the Phillip island…

New Zealand, South Island

The South Island! All through the first two months of our travels, everytime we met someone who has visited or lived in New Zealand told us to forget about he North Island because the South was so much better so changed our plans to spend more time there. Unfortunately that just made our expectations super…

New Zealand, North Island

From South America to New Zealand! Travelling from a Salvador, Brazil to Auckland, New Zealand took us three days. For reals. We left at 5am on a Wednesday morning and arrived at 4.30am on a Saturday… Rough, right? But anyway, we had to make the most of the time we had here because our time…