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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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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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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Looking for things to do in Kuala Lumpur? Here’s our list of the top 5 things to do while you’re there. 1. Visit the Petronas Twin Towers Bet you didn’t see that coming! Seriously though the towers are pretty amazing, especially at night when they’re lit up. There’s no need to pay to go up […]
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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 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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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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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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