Monthly Archives: July 2013

The end or start of a journey?

Touch down on Australian soil; an indescribable feeling coming over me. In the last 21 weeks I’ve visited 12 countries, seen amazing natural and and made wonders, met beautiful people, made wonderful new friends, ate fantastic food, marvelled at beautiful … Continue reading

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Reunions in London

  London – my last destination before travelling home. It was only going to be a short stay but had been looking forward to it given the planned catchups with the girls from the Patagonia leg of the trip. I’d … Continue reading

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Beer and chocolates in Belgium

I farewelled the Netherlands and boarded my train to Belgium. I managed to sit next to a guy who was also travelling to Ghent after holidays – although he’d been away for four years!  We whiled away the hours talking … Continue reading

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Two wheeled monsters in the Netherlands

Bikes, bikes and bikes – I have never seen so many in one place at the one time without it being a major fundraiser! So, my arrival into Amsterdam was a little hairy. The humungous backpack was an obvious sign … Continue reading

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A journey to Brittany

I’ve long wanted to visit Mont St Michel in the Brittany region of France so had decided to made it my first destination in Europe. It had been a long journey with my lunchtime flight from Buenos Aires arriving into … Continue reading

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Farewelling South America from Buenos Aires

They say Buenos Aires is the Paris of South America – well I guess the people who had just gotten off the Air France flight were going to put that theory to the test! The taxi driver Paddy, my airbnb … Continue reading

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Reconquering Brazil

The landscape was unsurprisingly green, given the amount of rain, as we ventured out of Paraguay towards Foz do Iguaçu. Our border crossing into Brazil occurred in Ciudad del Este, the large duty free city in South America, a city … Continue reading

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