As a couple, we were very lucky to tick off pretty much everything on our “bucket list” together and for the few that we missed, I’m still planning to do them. It won’t be the same of course, can never, ever be the same, but I can still see the sheer joy on Martin’s face […]
Last year I celebrated my 40th birthday and I wanted to mark the occasion but wasn’t really sure how to do it. I knew I wanted to go to Italy and I thought perhaps a boutique hotel in Rome, but I’d spent my birthday there a few years before, so had to throw the net […]
When it comes to travelling, we tend to choose accommodation that is economical, be it an Airbnb apartment or a great hotel deal we’ve seen online. This isn’t because we’re penny pinchers, but simply due to the fact that we want to stay in places longer, and if you’re accommodation isn’t draining your bank account, […]
I am not a morning person, I will be the first to admit this, so when Martin advises me that we’d need to be up and out for 5am to go and watch the sunrise, I immediately tried to figure out how many hours of z’s I was actually going to get that night, I […]
Just a short flight from Sydney and you can find yourself walking on the white sand beaches of the Gold Coast. It’s only an hour and a half away, so very easy to get to if you want to explore further than Sydney. The morning flight we were on was packed with people heading north […]
Going to Australia had been on my bucket list for a long, long time after spending over a decade listening to Martin and his old uni friends talk about their gap year in this magical place called “Manly” and it seemed important to me to experience this place first hand so I could see what […]