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‘Get Your Guide’ tour company: our terrible experience!

Well let me start off by warning you that this is not going to be a nice post. It will be sadly a very negative post about our very unfortunate experience with the organisation ‘Get Your Guide’. So if this is not for you, no worries, but I have to share with someone what happened …

A few days roaming around Rome…

Ahhhh Rome, the historical, beautiful, rustic city in Italy. I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of days there recently and well of course I got up to quite a number of things. I was in Rome to visit my aunt, she was in Europe for a month travelling and attending a conference. I …

A ‘whoa is me story’ about the Dutch Public Transport System….

Well let me just start by saying, this story is a woah is me story. I am writing for sympathy, even if its just a little bit. You see sometimes we need to just talk about all that went wrong in a day, to make ourselves feel a little better for unloading it all, and …

Learning a new language in Amsterdam!

So for those of you who don’t already know, I have recently begun taking Dutch language lessons in Amsterdam. Overall I am enrolled in 3 courses, each going for 2 weeks and they are INTENSE as F!!! But they are also extremely interesting. Honestly, I have learnt more about English than I think I ever …

To take Ski lessons or to not is the question?!

Have you ever skied? What did you think? Were you slightly sh**ing yourself beforehand? Well I hope that gives you an overview of my thoughts before attempting to ski for the first time… But lets begin at the beginning of my ski journey…. Alex and I were invited on a ski holiday by his family, …

After a week in Holland lets go Skiing!

So... after moving ourselves to the other side of the world finally and excitedly, spending a week enjoying the wonderful February weather, we set off on another holiday. Yep that’s right, after 8/9ish months of travelling around Australia, then moving to The Netherlands, we decided we needed another holiday. And that holiday was with Alex’s …

Our small stopover in Malaysia

So our 8-month trip driving around Australia is complete, and in this blogs case, my writing about our trip is complete. A sad thing to eventually happen but one we would never change and one we have enjoyed almost twice just by writing these blogs. Now we move onto what happened next and continue the story …

The best beach in Australia can be found in Esperance and it was the best place to end our journey around the country!

Esperance! A location in Australia that’s a long distance from everything and everywhere (not difficult in Aus), but a place you should take time out to travel to! Seriously, without a doubt it is one of our favourite places in Australia and in the world, after all the South West is just a hidden heaven, …

How and why we drove the Nullarbor Plain in just over 1 day!

Now this story is a little on the quitter side in regards to what we got up to whilst driving across the Nullarbor Plain, but here it is. Our drive began in Adelaide. We woke early, it was stinking hot there so getting out of the city quickly was high on our agenda. First destination …