Believing is seeing
It doesn’t matter how many times you walk a particular street in Melbourne, you will always discover something new, whether it’s a little lane way coming off it you missed before, or a store with a hidden entrance; there is something waiting behind every corner
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Whoa where did July go?! We’ve been in Melbourne a full month now, and yes, we’ve been absent from here for the entire time. Sorry. So much has happened, I’m unsure where to begin! Melbourne is an absolutely fantastic city, if there were more like
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Everyone knows when you travel through the time zones you’re at risk of getting jet lag, in fact it’s highly likely. There’s tons of information on how to prevent it; but nobody ever talks about what jet lag is, or how it can affect your first
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Choosing who we’d fly with from the UK to Australia wasn’t a decision we took lightly; We wanted comfort within our budget and a nice long layover. We wanted to know that our luggage (if we chose to check any) was going to be safe but also
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When choosing our flights we knew we wanted to make the most of the opportunity to see a slice of another country. That meant looking for a layover that allowed enough time for us to leave the airport, in a country that didn’t have a
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Tomorrow we head to London where we’ll await our 18 hour one way flight to Australia. We still haven’t packed our backpacks. We have 36ltr bags a 5kg limit and no checked luggage…. Luckily enough, I created a loose packing guide weeks (honestly; months) ago to give us
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Ethical Travel is a hot topic at the moment. Mainly due to a rise in animals being used to draw in the unwitting travellers; From the Whale Sharks of Donsol; to the endless list of Elephant ‘sanctuaries’ across South East Asia. It’s hard to know
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When we decided we wanted to trade in our urban life for a backpacking adventure we ultimately chose to give up everything. Handing our notice in on March 1st gave us just four weeks to get the house emptied. Here’s a few tip on how to
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