a travel & expat blog
Don't get excited family members reading this. This isn't a question for me. I'm not coming home......... just yet. I've spent a long time living in the UK with little to no face to face contact with others from down under. Well very little in the flesh, I've obviously spent a lot of time face…
Today is ANZAC Day. For those of you not aware what this is it a significant national occasion in both Australia and New Zealand and is always on the 25th April. ANZAC stands for Australian New Zealand Army Corps and during the war soldiers from Australia and New Zealand were always referred to as the…
My sister has lived in lots of places both in Australia and overseas over her lifetime. She lived in our rural country town, experienced the bright lights of Sydney, spent a semester in Sweden, lived in the midlands of the UK and she even lived in the Italian Alps for a year when she didn't…
There isn't many bad things about long haul travel but one of the worst is Jet lag. I've been flying backward and forwards from the UK to Australia every year for the past 10 years and every single time the lag has got me. You'd think I'd be a pro at dealing with it. I'm…
One of the best things of being away is doing things that you don’t normally do. On our recent trip back to Australia my partner and I got up at 5am each morning and went for a walk along the golden Gold Coast beaches. At home we would always enjoy a lie in but the…
Today is Australia Day (although technically due to time zones I'm a little late) anyhoo in the UK it's still Australia Day. I've had as an Australian Day as possible considering I'm on the other side of the world when the temperature only just slipped over 5 degrees. I've eaten timtams, twisties and rum balls,…
As my current adventure draws to a close I'm getting a little sad at the thought of reality drawing in and the routine of normal life. Over the last three weeks my partner and I have been celebrating Christmas with family on the Gold Coast, been surprised by best friends, gallavanted around the north island…
5am has never looked so good 😍
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If there's any Aussies out there who have had to renew your passport abroad you are going to understand this all to well. Firstly when I moved here 9.5 years ago I wasn't expecting that I would have to renew my passport here so low and behold when it came up for renewale this year…