April 1, 2025 | uganda

Braving the roads to shop in Kampala

We're stuck. We've seen busy traffic before, of course. I mean, I've been to India, Julie's been to Vietnam. We know what busy roads look like...

April 4, 2025 | sri-lanka

Back to Kandy for more tea experiences

We didn't spend nearly long enough in Kandy - just one night. I'm a keen tea drinker, so on the way we stopped at Geragama Estate Tea Factory to...

April 4, 2025 | vietnam

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...

April 4, 2025 | uganda

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...

April 6, 2025 | australia

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...

April 5, 2025 | sri-lanka

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...

April 5, 2025 | vietnam

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...

April 5, 2025 | australia

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...

April 6, 2025 | sri-lanka

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...

February 6, 2025 | vietnam

Vung Tau – a city of layers

I'm sitting on a beach gazing out over a small island. A light drizzle is falling around me, but I'm not sure whether it's the rain, or sea spray...