Caz and Craig have been traveling and living around the world since 1997.
The fire crackles and pops beside me. Soon we will be cooking our evening meal over it and warming ourselves on an Autumn evening under the stars. The afternoon air is warm and invites me to sit under the canopy of a red gum. The breeze, although refreshing, is not enough to shoo the flies away. Their pestering is not enough to have me wishing I was anywhere else but
The Hunter Valley is one of Australia’s most famous and popular wine growing regions. It is only a two hour drive north of Sydney, which makes it a very attractive destination for any traveller. There’s beauty in the valley and surrounding Broke Mountains, there’s fine dining, world class wines, gourmet chocolate, adventures like hot air ballooning, and relaxing spa treatments and massages. Believe it or not, there is also something
I’m sure everyone can rattle off their favourite Italian dish: lasagne, pasta, gelato, and coffee to write home about. If you have ever had the opportunity to visit Italy, I am sure you can recall the time you first bit into that “authentic” Italian dish, and your mouth melted. Mine was in Bari, on the East coast of Italy. We were staying there only because it was the place where
Darlinghurst, Sydney never used to be the trendy and expensive area that it is now. It used to be full of illegal shenanigans: bootlegging, laneway gambling, buzzing brothels, drugs, and bloody razor gang fights. Two notorious razor gang leaders from back in the twenties were Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh. Not your typical ruthless leaders, but they fit the role beautifully, frequently instructing their members to slash those who got
It was hard to believe that we were paddling on one of the world’s busiest harbours. All that could be heard was the gentle splashing of the water as the oars sliced through it from one side of the kayak to the other. Megan and I, friends only since yesterday, already had fallen into a silent rhythm softly interrupting the stillness of the air around us. “The water is like
It was only during my recent stay in Sydney with fellow travel bloggers, Abigail, Megan, and Gary that I realized a rather unsettling fact. Tourists to Sydney don’t know or understand the dangers that come with this stunning harbour of ours. I realized it was my responsibility to WARN those wanting to travel to Australia. Sydney Harbour is full of sharks. YES. And bull sharks at that. One of the
It all started with a passion. That’s all. A passion shared with friends and by friends. And now it’s a famous gallery with a thriving online business and a cool social media success story behind it. Eugene Tan was just a guy who loved surfing and taking photos of Bondi Beach. And why wouldn’t you? Undoubtedly, Australia’s most iconic beach. The place that draws tourists from around the world and
I don’t think you could get any more Australian then learning to surf at Bondi, Sydney’s iconic beach. This wasn’t my first attempt at surfing, but this time I was at that famous beach. The fact that I had just signed a waiver to say I was okay with the possibility that I could be bitten by a shark, didn’t bother me. I wasn’t even on the lookout for them.
It’s hard to believe that this is the first year of the Australian Open of Surfing. Held at Manly Beach, the place where that is widely known to be the birthplace of Australian Surfing with the first World Surfing Championship held in 1964. The event is an extension of the annual US Open of Surf held at Huntington Beach and is the country’s biggest-ever surf, skate and music event. The
Chinatown in Sydney is a place we venture to quite often. We love Asian food. We love authentic Asian food. And we love value for money. You get all that in Chinatown Sydney. It’s no secret Sydney can be an expensive place to visit, and dining out is no exception. So more often than not, whether it be lunch or dinner, when we take our regular day trips into Sydney
