We definitely saved the best city til last. Melbourne incapsulated all the bits we loved in the other cities we visited. Arriving at the Adina Apartments on Queen Street in the middle of the CBD during lunch hour, our first impression was that it felt like New York. They even have yellow cabs and horse […]
Did you know that Tasmanian Devils are endangered? Did you know they have a fatal facial cancer (DFTD)? Did you know that Looney Tunes/Warner Brothers had trademarked the name Tasmanian Devil – so the locals refer to them as Tassie Devil or just Devils? I had absolutely no idea. We had come to Tasmania (or […]
It was a funny coincidence that we arrived in Adelaide as the city was preparing for their equivalent of the Tour de France – Santos Big Down Under tour. However, we had 3 nights in the city before we met our bikes and Cycling Tour’s host, Jack and headed out to the Adelaide Hills and […]
We met a guy in a pub in Bondi who casually announced “you will be so disappointed with the Blue Mountains – they are not mountains and they are not blue”. With his words in my head and monsoon rain beating down on our 2 hour transfer the outlook for our 3 day hike was […]
The view from our 14th floor room at the Harbour View hotel in North Sydney was amazing. It was just a pity about the apartment block in the distance that totally hid the Opera House. It was also amusing that the train tracks, after crossing the Harbour Bridge, ran right under the hotel and below […]
We arrived in Manly in the pouring rain, 4 sleeps before Christmas. It chucked it down all the next day too and confirmed my theory that everywhere looks horrible in the rain. Incredibly, despite the weather there were still lots of surfers bobbing around in the ocean. Thankfully we didn’t have to wait long to […]
Okay, so we loved Perth but we love Fremantle more. What a fun, cool and architecturally beautiful town. Although really a suburb of Perth it’s got all the good bits we loved about Northbridge but less edgy and more upmarket. Here, every building is historic, one or two storey, lovingly restored and painted in pastel […]
After a long 4 hour drive from Denmark, through Karri forests and long, long stretches of straight roads we were excited and relieved when we got to Margaret River. We parked in town and went for a walk. Once again we discovered another one street town that took us a whole 10 minutes to walk […]
This week my eyes have scanned a million twigs. Twigs either lying on the path or poking out from the bush. Far too many of them stopped me in my tracks as they looked like snakes. Thankfully none of them were but they were the best motivation to hike fast and not take too many […]
My encounters with creatures has gone up dramatically in the last few days. We have seen a tiger shark, large sea turtles, sea snake, flying fish and a few rays – including an Eagle ray which moved so fast all you could see was an enormous black zooming shadow and it was easy to see […]
We love Perth. We decided we loved it after just a few hours walking around on our first afternoon. However, we loved it even more after doing a walking tour that I had found on TripAdvisor. Adie, a 24 year old Perth local, set up her walking tour (Oh Hey WA) a year ago as […]
The view from the plane, as we flew across the middle of Australia, was breathtaking. There was not a cloud in the sky and the lack of civilisation meant there was no pollution so we could see the curve of the earth on the horizon. I tried my best to photograph the changing landscape as […]
Today I cuddled a Koala called Bertram. Well, I got to hold him for a glorious couple of minutes, with David beside me while we had our photo taken. It was well worth the Aus $18/£9. Luckily we got there early so there was no queue which meant we got to chat to the keeper, […]
The main street in Noosa, Hastings Street, leaves you totally confused the first time you walk up and down it. Every shop, restaurant and bar is brand new. It’s like being in a purpose build outside shopping mall. The feel is very contemporary with lots of bi-folding doors that give super trendy restaurants and bars […]
Our flight from Cairns was only an hour long and it was just a small prop plane so we had some amazing views flying over the coastline and the Great Barrier Reef. In the arrival area at Hamilton Island airport the One & Only Resort, where we were staying, had a welcome desk and an […]
Day 1 Wow what a really cute place this is. It’s a one street (Macrossan Street) tourist town but very upmarket with lots of cool looking restaurants, ice cream parlours, art galleries, jewellery shops and resort wear boutiques. Our apart hotel – Coconut Grove – is incredible, so much cooler, modern and luxurious than we […]
We are now on a Live-a-board run by a company called Pro-Dive and we will spend the next 3 days and 2 nights on the Great Barrier Reef. David will do 11 dives in total, two of them night dives and I’m snorkelling and will do 9 snorkels. We have been so lucky with the […]
My first impression of Cairns is that it isn’t a city but rather a small town that could easily be somewhere on the west coast of the US. The buildings are all low rise, the streets are laid out in a grid system, everyone drives and it only took us 10 minutes to get to […]
After a 3 hour Billecart Salmon champagne Sunday lunch in the beautiful Bar and Billiard Room we said goodbye to Raffles Hotel – which I’m pleased to say is still one of my favourite hotels in the world and headed to the airport for our flight to Sydney. Entering Australia was easier than getting back […]
3 months in Australia - 1 November 2015 to 1 February 2016
