When you grow up knowing something intimately - like the Australian bush - it's easy to forget that people in other parts of the world won't know what you're talking about. That's exactly what happens to me time and time again when I talk to non-Australians about "the bush". Australia is, after all, …
Australia
5 experiences I had in Perth to realise my home town has grown up
I have a recent epiphany to share: Perth, Western Australia, is now a really cool city. I was born in Perth (in the 1970s; population then around 800,000 - now over 2 million), the capital city of Western Australia, and arguably the only real city - nearly 80% of West Aussies live here and the …
5 ways Australia’s Coral Coast stretched my comfort zone (in a good way)
Last week I got a very last-minute call-up to join a group of UK bloggers exploring my beautiful home state of Western Australia. It was a hectic 24 hours of figuring out who would take care of my son and when, what I should pack and where on earth I was actually going, and I won't say it wasn't a …