Swan Valley – Perth WA

It’s been a while since I wrote, but unfortunately sometimes you just gotta work and The Travel Bees are working hard saving for the next big trip. Luckily every September, we get a small interlude in the humdrum for football country week. Always a roller coaster of emotion, this week has been no different. There […]

Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk – Sydney NSW

I don’t want to finish writing about Sydney’s pools. It was such a fun weekend and I loved sharing it with you all. Fortunately, I have more material because not only did we swim…… we walked, the best way to fully appreciate this spectacular coast line. The Bondi to Coogee walk is a 6km trail […]

The Ocean Pools of Sydney – Part 3: Malabar to Mahon

I left you all in suspense… what did we decide? Bondi beach swim or pools?…. The Ocean Pools of Sydney – Part 2: Icebergs, Bondi Well, after considering two facts: 1. sharks eat turtles 2. no ocean pools in WA, we unanimously decided to stick to plan A for our final swimming day. It wasn’t […]

The Ocean Pools of Sydney – Part 2: Icebergs, Bondi

Day 2 was never going to match day 1 in terms of swimming conditions. When we woke, it was raining and the wind was howling, but we were determined……. we had to have at least one swim. So down the hill we walked, from Tamarama to the iconic Icebergs pool at Bondi. 7. Icebergs For […]

The Ocean Pools of Sydney – Part 1: Tamarama to Coogee

The Travel Bees are currently on a short break that has been long in the making. My Yallingup lagoon swimming buddy and I decided some time ago, a trip to Sydney to swim in the ocean pools would be an epic way to cement our swimming camaraderie. When Jetstar announced flights from Busselton to Sydney […]

Magic Perth – Western Australia

There’s nothing like having visiting family to get you out and about, enjoying where you live. The last two weeks we have been fortunate enough to host our niece and her three children from the UK, and boy did WA put on a show. The weather has been outstanding….. like a second summer. We’ve had […]

You know you’ve been in the ‘country’ when……. (Boyup Brook WA)

Your white shoes are now brown and you find a whole fly up your nose! That’s right, that is what I discovered as we were packing up to head home….. sorry for the gory details. Day 2 of the Boyup Brook Country Music Festival starts with the ‘Bush Poets Breakfast’. I wasn’t sure what to […]

Brandy Polenta and the Rice Pudding Sisters – Boyup Brook Country Music Festival WA

Yes, the title is an inside joke, but a memorable part of the weekend. One of those moments when no one can stop laughing. Laughing to the point you are crying………..I’ll set the scene. Here we are at the Boyup Brook Country Music Festival. Not something we have ever done before, but something we are […]

Kyoto by Tomo

Following on from our success with a private guide in Tokyo, we did the same for our very short amount of time in Kyoto. We are staying in Osaka so could only fit in one day or as it happens part there of. We caught a train and Tomo met us at the station. My […]

Osaka: the food capital of Japan

From the get go Osaka felt different to Tokyo. It might just be the places we visited, but Tokyo seemed more orderly. For example; check out this photo of commuters lining up to get on the subway. I’ve never seen anything like it! They take polite to the extreme. Osaka seemed more relaxed in terms […]