Perth, Western Australia: Freeo
Freemantle is inexplicably known locally as Freeo. Surely it would shorten to Freemo? Anyway, Freemantle is the traditional coastal port to Perth’s inland city. It continues to fulfill this role today as a significant global commercial port reaching out to…
Perth, Western Australia: The Quokkas of Rotto
There’s nothing to see or do in Western Australia! A good friend of ours from Queensland, with a wry smile Loving nothing more than a challenge, we set out on a mission to test this assertion. Perth was anyhow a…
To the Ende of the earth
It is a couple of hours of uphill switchback roads to reach Moni from the nearest airport at Ende. Moni is a village enveloped by forest at the foot of Mt Kelimutu, one of the highest peaks on Flores, Indonesia…
Go for the Komodo Dragons and scuba, but spend more time in Labuan Bajo
The internet is a funny place, full of information on anything you can imagine – how many metres in a fathom, what is the third largest natural harbour in the world, how closely related are red and standard pandas (1.829,…
Bali – Rice Rice, Baby
From Thailand, our next destination was Indonesia, with our main goal to glimpse a sight of the world’s largest reptiles, the prehistoric Komodo Dragons which can only be found in the Komodo National Park (more on this here). As Komodo…
Indonesia boat trip: there be Komodo dragons
The Komodo dragons. The few colonies of these monster monitor lizards are on several of Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda islands, with Komodo Island itself being most well known and home to the largest of them. Incredibly, given how large they are,…
Climbing and more around stunning Ao Nang, Thailand
Ao Nang sits in the south of Thailand, west of Krabi and east of Phuket. How did we end up here? Simply we were looking for some outdoor rock climbing suitable for the kids. Railay, the next bay south from…
Gear update: three months into the round the world trip
Warning: this is a geeky post about what we have with us on the trip, as a follow-up to the original. What is working well and what we have adjusted so far. Even if you scroll right to the bottom,…
Cambodia: what’s what with Angkor Wat?
Q: Which side of the road do they drive on in Cambodia? A: All of them, as the old joke goes. This was certainly true of the taxi driver that took us from the border post to Siam Reap; often…
A change of pace: a week with kids on Koh Chang, Thailand
After a great time visiting friends in Singapore and a packed first two months on the road, we were looking for somewhere to stay a little longer in one place; preferably somewhere that was kind on the budget too. We…
Family Odyssey Rocks
Adventuring Together
