We love to check out the street art when we travel, but right here in the streets of my home suburb of Mount Hawthorn are some amazing artworks. After a coronavirus inspired stimulus to get fitter and hit the local streets, I have discovered even more hidden pieces and was inspired to document them. I …
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Top 10 Australian Big Things
Our Top-10 Australian Big Things [ more Top-10 Lists ] Australia is well known for its big things scattered across the country. We often go out of our way to find them when we are out on the road. Here are our top-10 favourite “big things” that we have come across in our travels around Australia. There are …
Time to Travel Locally
We are off on another adventure!! And as some of you may know this is not an unusual thing for us to be doing. This trip will see us stay local, taking a half-lap around Australia’s amazing outback. We love travelling and we have been documenting our adventures online for a long time. If you haven’t been staying …
Heading Out Back – Western Loop 2020
Instead of another flying overseas holiday, we have bought ourselves a Jayco Hawk wind-up van and are heading off into our own backyard, taking the kids exploring the outback of Australia for a couple of months. our test run, camping at Chuditch campground in Dwellingup With the spreading coronavirus in the news, now is probably …
A Beer in Every Country I Visit
Hopping Around the World Is it too much to ask for a beer in every country I visit? It is not that I drink a lot of beer, but when I am travelling it is one thing that I always make an effort to do, partly to sample something unique about the country I am …
2019 Travel Blogging Year in Review
After reading other travel blogs doing the same thing, I have decided to write up a review of the website for the last year. It may be something that is useful to other bloggers to compare how they are going and to give ideas of what they can and maybe shouldn’t do. It is also …
2019 Annual Letter: Highs and a Low
Here is the highly anticipated annual letter form the Woods of Perth. It has been a year of mostly highs, but a death in the family was a significant low for us this year and made us reflect on the importance of family and life balance. With the children rapidly growing up and the occasional aches and pains …
New Art in Old Town Phuket
When we booked to stay in the Old Town area of Phuket in Thailand, we were expecting to be able to experience some of the traditional culture of Thailand, not to see amazing artwork on the walls of this old town area.
An Adventurous Day at District 21 [an excellent kids day out]
On our way back to Australia from Thailand we had a day to spare in Kuala Lumpur. We have been here a few times before, often as a stopover on the way to elsewhere in Asia. Last time we had a day to spare in KL we had a fantastic time at Kidzania. This time …
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Good Times in Phuket Old Town
Before booking this holiday, we thought of Phuket as full of touristy beach resorts, which is not really our kind of holiday. So we were excited to discover there is much more to Phuket than just the beaches. After a few days in Kata Beach, it was time for us to experience some of that culture and …