Deadly (…& Cuddly) Oz Australia’s reputation is that ‘danger is everywhere’, and in truth I expected to see something deadly every single day …and if it wasn’t terrifying, then we’d be going ‘awww it’s so cute’. I came to Oz with a bingo card full of animals I wanted to see – kangaroos, koalas, duck […]
The House Sit We arrived back at my sister’s house after our week away in the Blue Mountains, tired, but happy… two delighted dogs greeted us at the door, and after we unpacked, we headed out for our regular walk around the park, in a place that now felt like home. When we got back
Our Yellow Brick Road – Part Four Day 11 ‘Anyone up for walking to the port?!’ No one was up for walking to the port but we all did it anyway. The port was on the way to the Resistance Museum where we hoped to learn more of the detail of what had happened during
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Kelimutu One glance at mine and Rosa’s backs and it was obvious that it didn’t make any sense to go on a 10 hour bus journey the next day. I shuddered when I thought about what hoiking our rucksacks onto our backs would be like… Time to change the plan. We talked to Pepeng and
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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‘There be Dragons!’ We walked off the boat into the twilight, unexpectedly early. The feeling of walking on solid ground reassuring, if a little weird at first, as we made our way to our guest house. Labuan Bajo felt like an easy place to be. The main street was wide and the whole place had
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Green Desserts – Theo’s Blog One of the really interesting things about travelling through the world at ground level is seeing the land and the people change through gradual over-lapping distinctions. When you cross a man-made border there’s still elements of the previous place and people in the new place and people, and by the
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‘Everything happens for a reason…’ As we got closer to Thailand my text conversations with my cousins got more excitable and a lot funnier. We ended up with a group chat entitled OCTWWC, and I will literally give a foot massage a day to anyone who guesses what that stands for (…not you Natascha and
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Bombs and Buddhas – Theo’s blog I was 11 when I first became aware of the Vietnam war in 1968/69. News from that terrible conflict, and the anti-war movement in the States, was one of the things that radicalised me early into a teen boy wearing a Mao badge to school and studying the map
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While friends lay sleeping in the west – Theo’s blog The other night, I was standing on the hotel roof gazing at the moon over Guilin. I thought back in my mind across the land we’d travelled over, visualising what my friends at work in England were doing at that moment. That’s when I realised that, although
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