Before I turned 30, I made a list of the things I’d like to do and achieve before hitting the big 3-0. One of those was to travel on a luxury sleeper train. It just looks so romantic and glamorous and I already love travelling by train, so it seems like the perfect trip! I…
Aged 15, I travelled to Australia for the first time, visiting our family just north of Perth. They took us on an amazing road trip, all the way from Perth to Coral Bay on the Ningaloo Reef and back again. I remember the snorkelling being incredible and have great memories of the trip, and…
Australia is an absolutely enormous country, deceivingly so when you look at most maps. It is, in fact, the sixth-largest country in the world (after Russia, Canada, China, the USA, and Brazil) and is the world’s largest island. So there’s a lot to see. I made a list of the regions I wanted to…
During my two and a half years of living in Sydney, I’ve eaten a lot of avocado. It is a staple of the Australian diet, and ‘smashed avo on toast’ could lay claim to the national dish. You’ll find it on almost every Australian cafe menu, with an imaginative assortment of accompaniments and variations. So…
A Lovely Planet’s guide to Margaret River, Australia. Margaret River, Australia was my grandma’s favourite place. She used to visit Perth every year as my uncle, aunt and cousins live there and she would often make the trip south to Margaret River. I visited once when I was 15 and though we didn’t…
I first visited the Whitsundays in 2008, while travelling the east coast of Australia with my sister. A boozy night in Airlie Beach followed by some rough weather conditions meant that I spent my first day in the Whitsunday Islands being sick over the side of our boat. Far from ideal. However, I do remember…