We only stayed a few days in Swaziland as we were travelling around South Africa, but it was enough time to impress us with some unique experiences. Here are some of the photo highlights. Buy our Swaziland designs on Red Bubble
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A Short Cut Through Swaziland
While we were on a four-week holiday in South Africa, we had the opportunity to visit another country, the landlocked country of Swaziland. Departing from the amazing Kruger National Park, the shortest route driving to our next destination St Lucia on the coast fortunately passed right through Swaziland. Not only was it an opportunity to …
Hippo Hooray for St Lucia
After our detour through Swaziland, we continued our trip around South Africa, heading to the coastal town of St Lucia, known mainly for the local hippo population. We had heard stories of hippopotami wandering the streets of St Lucia, a herd that the locals call ‘townies’. Apparently, if you drive around at night you will …
Graskop: It’s All About Cliffs
We continue our 4-week trip around South Africa, and have been flat out since we arrived, with two days at Sun City, now a long drive to Graskop. We didn’t expect the drive to be so interesting and eventful, so far South Africa has been awesome. We needed a few places to rest and give …
A Taste of Mexico
In 2005, as we travelled through Central America, the flavours and culinary diversity of Mexican food was a joyous relief from the blander cuisines of the countries we had passed through further south. Here are our notes on some of the dishes we were fortunate to sample during four weeks of travelling around the country. …
The Old and the New of Kyoto
After a few days in each of Takayama and Hiroshima, we are at the final destination of our two weeks in Japan. Another fast train got us to the old Japanese capital of Kyoto in an hour from Himeji. We had chosen a hotel near the station for convenience, only a three-minute walk they said, …
Hiroshima in Peace
Here is the diary of our few days staying in Hiroshima, Japan. We travelled here from Takayama, and will be heading to Kyoto next. Today was mostly a travel day. The train journey was easy and efficient as usual. We left Takayama at 9.45 and arrived in Hiroshima at three in the afternoon. We had a very short stop …
Take me to Takayama
Here is the diary of our flights to Japan and the first few days in Takayama. After this, we continued on to Hiroshima then Kyoto, spending two weeks in Japan. Leaving Perth We left Perth at 4 pm, a much more pleasant departure time than for our previous overseas trips, however it meant we had to travel through …
2010 Wood Family Summit
With our family spread all around Australia plus a few in the USA, it is rare for all of us to get together. Since the kids have grown and spread their wings, the brood is getting bigger, so we make the most of any chance we get to spend time together. In 2010 we travelled …
Our ‘Round Australia trip: 2008-09
Between May 2008 and April 2009, Clare, Rob and Olive travelled around Australia in a VW Transporter Camper Van (a follow up to our around the world trip in 2005). This time there was three of us, as our family has now expanded with our bundle of joy, Olive. You can see our complete journey on this map. You …