The Great Ocean Road
The Great Ocean Road Last Saturday night I went to bed at 4. On Sunday morning, I woke up at 6, and I wasn’t even remotely grumpy. Why? I was about to drive down the Great Ocean Road, a trip along the...
View ArticleThe Great Barrier Reef: The Day I Found Nemo
Great Barrier Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Great Barrier Reef. That’s all I heard before coming to Australia, as well as ‘Poisonous snakes! Poisonous spiders! Poisonous kangaroos!’, ‘Does the toilet water...
View ArticleFraser Island
Travelling is all about decisions, and important ones too. Where to go? If you’ve only got a few days somewhere, you don’t want to waste them all in a crummy town that you once read had a cheap bar but...
View ArticleBlack Water Rafting in Waitomo
How does standing in freezing cold water in the dark, fully dressed (including socks and shoes) sound to you? Pretty awful, I would imagine. Except today I did just that and I promise it was one of the...
View ArticleThe Beautiful Franz Josef Glacier
Every day in New Zealand, whether I’m sitting on the coach staring out of the window at snowy mountains, taking a quick morning walk around a beautiful lake or sitting on a glorious beach, I seem to...
View ArticleNever Hike In A T-Shirt
My backpack, which is now beginning to look rather worse for wear, is stuffed with all sorts of useful things. And when I say useful things, I mean bikinis, neon nail polishes and loads of antibiotics...
View ArticlePhotos From Milford Sound
One of the places I was most looking forward to visiting was New Zealand‘s Milford Sound, on the West Coast of the South Island, a gorgeous fjord that attracts up to a million visitors a year. It took...
View ArticleLake Pukaki Really Is That Colour
After a big night out in Queenstown, with an eight-hour drive to Christchurch stretching ahead of me, I was looking forward to a leisurely sleep on the bus journey. After a few hours of snoozing,...
View ArticleSunset In Koh Tao
Walking along the beach in Koh Tao, an island in Thailand notorious for its cheap scuba diving schools, I unexpectedly came across this magnificent sunset. I could wax lyrical about how the view made...
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