During our time in Cairns we rented a car to explore and get the most out of our time there. We’ve already talked about the Rock Wallabies of Granite Gorge, Babinda Boulders and the Lake Circuit in previous posts. This is our last post in this series about the Atherton Tablelands Waterfall Circuit. We’d decided we wanted to see the […]
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Before leaving the UK to start our adventure I knew I needed to lose weight. I was around the 11st mark and I feel much more comfortable around 10st. Don’t get me wrong I’d “tried” to lose weight but I wasn’t successful. I’m one of these people who starts a diet and instantly starts craving […]
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Since arriving in Australia we’ve toyed with the idea of renting a car. In every location we talked about it but never took the plunge. The cost and risk associated with renting a car put me off – that was until we arrived in Cairns. While researching Cairns we discovered there was a lot to […]
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This post is a bit more personal than previous posts as I’m going to share my experience of traveling with IBS and some tips for how I manage my symptoms while traveling. For someone with IBS traveling long term can be daunting. Hopefully sufferers can relate to this blog and buddies of sufferers can learn […]
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This post follows on from a previous post about Helpx and how it’s already saved us over $5,250 during our time in Australia. Since writing that post we have done 29 more days of Helpx bringing the total amount saved to $6,700. We don’t have that amount of money in our travel budget at the […]
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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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This post is the third instalment in a series of posts about scams we encountered in Asia. We came across the cancelled bus scam in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. We suspect this scam is found across Asia so hopefully by reading this post you can avoid being scammed. The cancelled bus scam We are budget travellers so we […]
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We (embarrassingly) got caught out by the Bangkok tuk tuk scam twice when we first arrived in Bangkok. It seems that almost all first time travellers get caught out on this one though so perhaps we shouldn’t feel too bad.
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Our 4 nights in Bangkok were the very beginning of our travels. We’d roughly planned our way through Thailand and the obvious place to start was in the capital, I’m not sure we were quite prepared for the culture shock of Bangkok though! Accommodation There is a huge range of accommodation available in Bangkok, ranging […]
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During our time in Asia we came across various scams, some we fell for and some we didn’t. We didn’t get caught out by this scam but we easily could have. This is the first post of a short series of posts on scams you might encounter while travelling in Asia. We hope reading about our […]
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