Australia is a huge country, with a very, very long coastline (nearly 36,000km in fact - and a third of that is just my home state, Western Australia!). It's also pretty beautiful, and varied - as you'd expect across that distance - and it just seems to be sitting there on a map, asking you to drive …
Australia
Exploring Western Australia – Episode 67 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
My home state of Western Australia is one of those places that is extra special because it's really far from everywhere. While I (fairly often) complain about it being a long distance to get to "the rest of the world" from WA, I realise that this is probably one of the main reasons it's so …
5 reasons I keep returning to Melbourne
Next month I'm heading back to Melbourne for a quick trip. Little-known fact: when I moved back to Australia from Germany, I seriously considered making Melbourne my hometown instead of returning to Perth. At the time, Perth was still a bit of a boring city, to be honest (it is massively better …