Now that we’ve safely returned to good ol’ Blighty (quite a culture shock already), we thought we’d share some of the stranger things we managed to snap on our way around South America, Australia and South East Asia. Look closely…
One aspect of long-term travelling that we perhaps hadn’t anticipated, but which makes total sense when you consider it, is the fact that when you get to a place of comfort, you feel a magnetic pull just to stay there and nest up, and moving on becomes an even bigger chore than usual. Add to this the feeling that over […]
Australians get annoyed when us wimpy Northern Hemisphere types obsess about their dangerous wildlife. Yes, there are killer spiders, crocs and sharks, but Aussies like to play down the danger of their great outdoors and find the idea of a kangaroo sighting being a novelty wryly amusing. For us however, whilst we were happy to avoid an encounter with a […]
So it’s time to hit the road. Our van is green, our loins are girded and we’re off in a four day roadtrip to Melbourne in a green Jucy Vans campa. If only we knew where to stay for the first night…
We’ve had plenty of fun with modes of transport recently. In Buenos Aires on Wednesday for example, our last South American taxi ride was characteristically terrifying, including as it did an 80mph race down the hard shoulder to avoid a jam, ridiculous overtaking in the airport car park and a moment where we casually ran over someone’s foot. Next, out […]
