The magic of Kings Canyon
I'm sitting outside our van looking over the ensuite toilet block and the canyon range that makes up Kings Canyon in Watarrka national Park. It's almost peaceful...
Hoi An- lanterns and squid
Ok, so if I'm honest Hoi An was the highlight of Vietnam for me (the disclaimer here being that my trip to Sapa was completely rained out, so I...
Markets and museums in Colombo
I'm not sure what I expected to find in Sri Lanka's capital city, Colombo, but the reality certainly didn't match it. While we had flown into Colombo two weeks...
Finding outback gems and opals in Coober Pedy
Our adventure in Coober Pedy starts early. Somewhere between the massive, almost dry salt lakes, the brush and the red dust along the Stuart Highway we hear a conversation...
Searching for wildlife in the rivers of Borneo
We’re busy watching three different species of birds in a tree, they flit from branch to branch, fluff their feathers and twist their heads. We can just make out...
Taking in the beauty of Uluru
It's an image we have seen countless times - the iconic image of the rock rising up out of the flat barren landscape. And yet in reality Uluru is...
Living like a local in Ho Chi Minh
I've had a real lesson in trust this week and was forced to let go of my 'control freak' tendencies. Since being in Vietnam on the great life swap...
Meeting the elephants at Pinnawala
Ade has had an inexplicable love of wildlife ever since he was a kid - it kind of explains our time spent in Africa chasing the Big 5. As...
A magical adventure through Uganda
The flight from Kenya to Uganda is short, so short we've barely had time to enjoy the snacks provided and return our trays to the upright position before we're...
The great life swap experiment
I'm often guilty of only ever writing about the positives of travel, of painting our trips as a kind of utopia in which nothing ever goes wrong. I do...