Trip Journal

I got so carried away with my tales of glory yesterday while reminiscing about the EPIC time we had in Portugal back in October 2018 that I only told you all about the first half of the day! A Portuguese

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After three weeks of home isolation I’m already starting to get cabin fever and there’s no end in sight. Whilst this is definitely a first world problem to be grounded at a relative’s house with all the creature comforts, I

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May 23, 2019

Back on the road

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It’s amazing how time passes when you’re either busy or having fun. We’ve just wrapped up our second six month stint working and living in the south-west corner of Western Australia. The past couple of weeks have been noticeably cooler

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Simultaneously oppressive, terrifying, beautiful and spectacular.   Aside from the lush, rugged regions to the south of Santiago, Chile is generally a harsh, barren country. We knew this before we arrived. Karl had spent unknown hours scoring virtual maps marking out

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It was late afternoon at the beach just metres from our campsite. We had been trying, unsuccessfully, to catch a fish for dinner for the past couple of hours as the surf was flat and the late-autumn weather was far

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November 2, 2015

NO THROUGH ROAD

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The Great Ocean Road was the first ‘tourist trap’ that we’d encountered since spending the Easter break in Esperance region of Western Australia some five weeks earlier. Between locations was some 3000km of travel, mostly featuring barren, windswept desert and

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