Jake and I rented a car in Cairns and spent 3 days exploring the Daintree rainforest and the Atherton tablelands. Across the three days we visited many sites including Granite Gorge, Babinda Boulders, the Waterfall Circuit and the Crater Lakes National Park. All of these sites were awesome but my favourite was the Crater Lakes […]
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While staying in Cairns we hired a car for 3 days to explore far North Queensland. We couldn’t believe how much there was to see so close to Cairns! One of our favourite spots was Granite Gorge in the Atherton Tablelands. Here you can interact with and feed wild Mareeba Rock Wallabies that are endemic to […]
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The Great Barrier Reef was at the top of our list of things to do in Australia. We’ve been slowly working our way up the East coast from Melbourne and having finally arrived in Cairns we got straight onto researching the best way to visit the Reef. Choosing a Great Barrier Reef Tour There are […]
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We’d heard some good things about Newcastle during our time in Australia and we were lucky enough to get a HelpX placement there whilst making our way up the East Coast of NSW. Having arranged everything with our lovely host Heather we caught the train from Sydney (where we’d been enjoying a week relaxing in Manly) […]
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If you’ve been following the blog you’ll know already that we love a free attraction so let’s cut to the chase; here are our favourite free things to do in Brisbane! Spend the day at Queensland Museum We spent our first day in Brisbane at the Queensland Museum and we loved it. The museum is […]
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We started our trail in Thailand and have since met many travellers who have done the same. In this post we review each of the places we stayed. We are budget travellers but we try to get the best we can for our money, we haven’t yet shared a dorm since they don’t offer good value […]
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We stayed in Manly, NSW for one week in February 2015. It was one of our favourite places in Australia so far. I thought I’d write a little bit about why we enjoyed our stay here so much, what you can do if you’re here and why it’s a great base to explore Sydney and […]
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I remember researching the Gold Coast before Jake and I left the UK. At the time I was overwhelmed by the size of Australia and the number different places we wanted to see. Straight away the Gold Coast stood out as a must visit because of its theme parks and water parks. With Movie World, […]
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Jake got me the most awesome birthday present last year – a trip to Pulau Selingan aka Turtle Island. I had researched the trip but had decided it was too expensive so I was over the moon when he treated us both. He’s such a good egg (sometimes!) This post will cover how we booked […]
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By chance we found ourselves less than two hours from Phillip Island and its world renowned penguins! I love penguins so it was a no brainer that we would visit Phillip Island. We researched how to get there, booked an Airbnb and wrote a rough itinerary of things to do. The post will offer advice […]
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