As of this week I am a veteran of a two thousand kilometer road trip with three kids under seven (and one is a baby). Writing this I am trying to wipe a cheesy, huge grin off my face because I am quite proud of myself. We took a punt you see, using ten days…
So we took the kids to the Sydney Fish Market the other day. A fabulously interesting place to visit and worthy of a post in itself. It is however not a glamorous place due to the unavoidable smell of fresh fish, wet floors and number of staff members wandering around in waders and galoshes.…
Forget the tropics, so far January in Melbourne has been stinking hot. While the Melbourne beaches are pretty as a picture I’m not one for sitting/frying on a beach when it is 40 degrees Celsius. In a heat wave air-conditioning and air-conditioning only is what I am after. There is a tried and tested Melbourne…
I have never thought of Melbourne as a beach town. Melbourne, my beautiful cultural and geographic melting pot of a home town spreads itself wide and tall. We live on the cusp of the Yarra Valley in the city’s north east green-belt. Ten minutes drive from home are vineyards, eucalyptus, the Yarra River and…
The topic for today has me toying with the idea of a new blog category. Unfortunately the category won’t fit in my header so if anyone can suggest how I can shorten the category “Sweet! I wish this was around when I was a kid” don’t be shy. A New Zealand franchise import, Inflatable…
This post is sponsored by Bobux Xplorer It is the time of year when bloggers write posts about the year about to close, and travel bloggers write about all the exciting places they visited. To understand exactly how far I have travelled in 2014 you need look no further than to one of my…
I love Christmas – the decorations, the food, the summer Australian Christmas vibe. I have a so-so relationship with presents however. Not real comfortable with the accumulation of stuff that the holiday season brings folks. If Santa were going to bring me my perfect present it would be an opportunity to travel, and explore…
In my previous post “Behind the Scenes on a Moderately Successful Travel Blog” I described how I had never taken photos before I started blogging two years ago. One of the treasures of my travel blogging journey has been that it acts as an impetus for me to visually capture the places we live and visit.…
I came to travel blogging via an unusual path. I had written a collection of travel health pieces for families with young kids that I thought may be book worthy so I approached publishers. None were interested with the most common reply being that though they liked the material, I wasn’t famous so there wouldn’t…
Truth be told I am a little overwhelmed by all the fabulous goings on this Christmas season in Melbourne. There seems to be so much activity, so many gorgeous decorations, so much celebration occurring. Knowing how quickly our December calendar fills up we are leading the pack and have made a point experiencing some of…