18th March – 24th March 2017 When the pilot landed in Yangon airport, he announced the local time was 7:15pm. I looked at my watch. “He’s got that wrong!” I said to Em. “That’s not possible”. Of course the pilot was right. Where did my confusion come from? Myanmar is not 6 hours ahead of … More The Road to Mandalay – Myanmar Part 1
13th – 18th March 2017 We were really looking forward to Singapore. We’ve both been before and really enjoyed our time there, and although we always like to visit new places, the knowledge of what we were going to find when we landed gave us a bit of a breather from having to scour through … More Singapore Slinging
4th – 13th March 2017 I’m going to start this post by writing something which I know will make me sound like a spoilt westerner…. I was dreading South East Asia. There are lots of reasons why we decided to go travelling, but I guess the main ones are because we wanted to see first … More Skyscrapers and street art: Malaysia
22nd February – 3rd March 2017 Before we left the UK, we would have said that New Zealand was one of the countries we were most looking forward to visiting. This was partly because neither of us had ever been before, but also the fact that no-one we had spoken to about NZ had ever … More New Zealand Part 4: Wanaka – Queenstown
15th – 22nd February 2017 On the 15th February we caught a ferry to the South Island of New Zealand. We had planned to spend more time in the South than the North as everyone we had spoken to had said it was better (in the end, we came to the same conclusion). Our first … More New Zealand Part 3: Blenheim – Glaciers
11th -15th February 2017 One of the nice things about travelling is that you get to catch up with people who have made the leap to move from the UK to live abroad. We are very fortunate to have a number of family and friends who live in very exciting parts of the world, and … More New Zealand Part 2: Rotorua – Wellington
5th February – 11th February 2017 Our introduction to New Zealand came through the city of Auckland. It was also our introduction into the world of hostel dorms; something we had avoided so far. It turned out Guns ‘N’ Roses were playing in Auckland the weekend we arrived, and almost all the affordable accommodation was … More New Zealand: Part 1 Auckland – Lake Taupo
27th January 2017 – 4th February 2017 Bula! Bula! Bula! If I had a pound for every time someone said “Bula!” to me (a traditional greeting) whilst I was in Fiji, we would be doing the rest of the trip in 5 star hotels. Fiji was the only destination on our trip we knew we … More “Fiji Time”
We’ve only been on the road a short time, but that’s still been long enough to make a few schoolboy errors, here are a few things we have learnt the hard way which might help others when planning a long trip… 1) Money makes the world go round – we have very quickly found out … More Lessons learnt
21st Jan -27th Jan 2017 We left Sydney at what seemed like the middle of the night to catch the train to Byron Bay – the journey was 15 hours to a little town called Casino and then another hour and 30mins by coach from there to Byron Bay. The journey was pretty tedious, but … More Byron Bay and Brisbane
Emma & Ben... Far From Home 