What a crazy year this has been, for everyone I am sure! We have had some significant challenges this year, but we’re trying to take the positive out of it, and the only way is up from here. Firstly Clare lost her job at the WACA, then our big planned half loop of Australia in […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Lazy Days at Kata Beach, Phuket
We had not been back to Thailand since we first visited Bangkok and the north of the country as a couple in 2006. Visiting the more touristy southern beaches was never a priority even then. However, when we came across cheap flights to Thailand during the school holidays, we could not resist going back to […]
NZ South Island: Scenery, Wildlife and Adventure
We are into the second week of our tour of New Zealand, which is not nearly enough time to see it all. We have split our time between the north and south islands, trying to get a good snapshot of the whole country. During our time spent in the south, we made our way from […]
A Week of New Zealand’s North Island: Culture & Nature
New Zealand had been on our travel wishlist for a long time, and after constant prompting from our oldest son, we finally took the plunge and crossed the ditch. There are direct flights to get us there from Perth, but as usual, we went with the cheapest flights (how do you think we can afford […]
2018 Annual Letter
Another wonderful year has passed, 2018 for us has been very exciting and has seen us grow and learn some more … As always our year has been full of travel. Our trips this year have included a two-week adventure to Sri Lanka in April, with an action-packed stopover in Kuala Lumpur! We have not […]
All Sweet in Kandy, Sri Lanka
It was sad to leave the chilled out town of Ella, as we had enjoyed it so much. It was such a peaceful town and the host at our homestay had been so kind, and we knew things will be a bit more hectic away from there. Sri Lanka’s second-largest city, Kandy, does not hold […]
Ella: Hills and Chills in Sri Lanka
After a few days lazing at the beach in Mirissa, it is time to head inland and continue our journey around Sri Lanka. Our next destination is a four-hour drive away, along windy roads from the beach town of Mirissa to Ella in the hills. We had booked in advance a large and comfortable taxi […]
Mirissa by the Sea
After a great introduction to Sri Lanka staying in the heritage-listed fort area of Galle, our next destination was a short distance along the coast to the beachside town of Mirissa. As is always the way with travel, the journey there can be just as good as the destination. Mirissa is only one hour from […]
