When I'm travelling and people hear I'm from Australia, it's surprisingly often that they ask me about New Zealand. Fair enough, I suppose, since we are near neighbours, but coming from Perth on the far west coast of Australia, it's well over 5,000 kilometres to New Zealand - imagine how many …
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Around Australia in a van: First stop, Kalgoorlie
In the spirit of sentimentality and the great feedback I got on my 25 years ago in Europe series, I've dug out our old family photos from another big motorhome trip we did: this time around (kind of) Australia. Many Aussies wait until they've retired to hitch up the caravan and travel around this …
On sending teenagers around the world
Back when I went to university - although it's not all that long ago - taking a year off to travel before you studied was virtually unheard of and decidedly unpopular. What brief discussion there was usually ended with a harsh warning that if you lost the momentum of study then you'd never go …