I’m coming home… Truth be told, I didn’t really want to come on this trip. Nine months away from home and everything I know, was a terrifying and not particularly attractive idea for me. I like seeing new places, sure, but I’m definitely not a natural-born traveller, I like my home comforts too much. But, […]
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‘Extra, Extra!’ Plenty of crazy and unexpected things have happened on this trip so far, but I’m pretty sure this takes the cake. It was a day like any other in Guilin – I was having my ten minute break in the middle of my first Chinese lesson of the day, when I was approached
Love the Jungle, hate the Leeches Turns out I really hate leeches. I managed to avoid them in Australia, but that clearly wasn’t going to be possible when trekking through Sumatran rainforest. It’s not like the leeches in the jungle were big or even dangerous, but GOD they’re so disgusting. I first got one when
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Home I didn’t expect Australia to feel so much like home. The landscape and the wildlife was so different from anything I had seen, completely uniquely its own. It was relentlessly hot, and ridiculously large, and sparsely populated. And yet, the people were surprisingly friendly, and the atmosphere was laid back and easy to exist
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The most wonderful time of year! From a temple in Thailand (in October!) to, unbelievably, a beach in Oz on Christmas Day… We wanted to say THANK YOU to everyone who has encouraged and supported us along the way. You have warmed us up when we resembled drowned rats – and cooled us down when
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The Timor Sea – Rosa’s blog I’ve never flown on a plane before. And I don’t plan to again. But I’ve done it now. After all our efforts, travelling for months without leaving the ground, all the way from England to East Timor, we’ve had to fly over that last little stretch of ocean to
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The Island of Komodo We woke up painfully early that morning, we had to be on the boat by 6am – the boat that was going to take us on a tour of Komodo and some of the sights on the surrounding islands. It was a small but sturdy thing, comfortably fitting us and the
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The Great Big Southeast Asia Blog – by Rosa Laos was … tropical. I mean, I didn’t know what I expected, but honestly even from a tropical place, I wasn’t expecting it to be quite so stereotypically tropical. The earth was red, and there was an overwhelming abundance of green wherever you looked. Strange and
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The great blog of China – Rosa’s blog Since finally arriving in China, I can tell you, it is everything I had dreamed it would be. From seeing pictures and hearing stories about this country since I was young, China is just like I had hoped, but also (like most places we’ve been) it’s something
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Five Cats Hotel (a tail from Kazakhstan) – Rosa’s blog Our first impressions of Almaty were definitely positive, but our good mood was very quickly dampened when we got to our hostel. It was not only cheap and uncomfortable looking, but unfriendly, and the man at the desk was asking us to pay triple what