Meelup Hill – Meelup Regional Park, WA

Yesterday with a few things on my mind, we decided to venture out to one of our special local places. Like everyone else, it is easy to get caught up in the demands of life and forget about getting out to appreciate the natural beauty around us. But it is a great way to clear […]

Seoul summary and travel tips – South Korea

After a week in the big city of Seoul, I have summarised all you need to know when visiting. In conclusion, we found Seoul a great place to visit. It is clean, friendly, super high tech and a great mix of old and new. Hope you find this helpful, especially my kiwi friend, who is […]

Gwanghwamun and Jongno-gu – Seoul, South Korea

Today was a grey, snowy day and so was the mood. Although I could pretend we have no issues with the children travelling, that would be a lie. At some point, there is always a struggle day, where fatigue and irritability set in….. today was it. After our huge day yesterday, it isn’t a surprise. […]

The border – DMZ – South Korea

Wow, what an eye opener. Much to the teen Bee’s disgust, it was a 7:30am pick up for our long debated DMZ tour. Master 17 had maintained for months, he didn’t want to go. As a 6 foot 4 blonde fellow, he felt he would be a clear target…….. for what, I’m not sure because […]

Namsan and surrounds – Seoul South Korea

For our first day in Seoul, we struck a bluebird day, bright sunshine but absolutely freezing (-5). This meant our day was interspersed with several trips to heated and welcoming coffee shops. Fortunately, the Koreans like their coffee and cafes are found on every second corner. As tour guide, I decided we should start our […]

Club Med Sahoro-Hokkaido 2024 (part 2)

You’ll never guess…….. Day 6……… yes I skied! When I drew the curtains to find a huge fresh dump of snow (something like 18cm) and our last day was to be powder, powder and more powder, what could I do? I had to try it. The snowshoe idea went out the window and I was […]

Club Med Sahoro-Hokkaido 2024

Something very strange has happened to me…….I think I actually like skiing! At the beginning of the week I told the family I would hire skis for two days and then snowshoe. Today is day five, I still have the skis and I’ve been skiing all day, everyday! It seems the key has been to […]

Sahoro-Hokkaido bloopers

As you can imagine, I am not short on material for a bloopers blog. Skiing, especially when I am involved, can be rather entertaining. The first two bloopers however are more related to the extreme exhaustion that travel and skiing lead to. 1. I’m at a different train station Bless her little heart, when we […]

Tokyo bloopers

As we travel to our next destination and following on from my Sydney bloopers blog, I will share with you some of our funnier moments in Tokyo. As you can imagine, there is much we didn’t understand having zero concept of the language. The most we knew; Konnichiwa (Hello) and Arigatou (Thank you). As far […]

Tokyo by Taka

For our first full day in Tokyo I decided to employee the services of a private tour guide through Get your guide. I had been researching for weeks and just couldn’t get my head around the city. It has many many layers; ground level, subway level, road tunnels, train tunnels, rivers and waterways, not to […]