The Worst Travel Blogger of All Time – A summary of our adventures so far…

So I didn’t keep up with my travel blog very well while we were actually travelling…mostly because there were way too many great things to do and pulling out my computer just didn’t feel right! We’ve been back in Aus for 9 months now and have settled into our new life in Western Australia.

To keep things short, here’s a summary of what we got up to, where we traveled and a snippet of the highlights during our year long adventure!

1. We both quit out engineering jobs at the end of March 2018. Sold pretty much everything we owned. Packed the car with our camping gear, got the dogs comfy on the back seat – and took off!
2. Australia – (3 months) we figured we should explore some of our own backyard before heading abroad. Plus we got to do this with our dogs. We explored a lot of the East Coast, took the boat over to Tasmania and spent a month driving and camping around there, before making the trip back up to North QLD.
3. Bali (Jane 1 month). Highlight: getting my yoga teacher qualification (finally!) – Cambodia & Vietnam (Dan 2 weeks in each)
4. Sri Lanka (1 month). Highlight: Cooking classes and ancient cities that felt like we just walked into the forgotten world of Narnia.
5. France (2 months with a 10 day trip to Italy while we were living in France). Highlight: Living in the French countryside surrounded by vineyards with the most amazing family!
6. Scotland (1.5 months). Hired a car and drove around most of the country only booking accommodation 1 day in advance. Highlight: driving through the Isle of Skye and being the only car on the road! And of course the Whisky Trail. Edinburgh has my heart. Amazing.
7. England (1 month).  Hired a car and drove around a good chunk of the country. Highlight: Christmas in London. New Years Eve at River Cottage (my lifelong obsession). An epic night at the Cavern Club with The Beatles tribute band! Drove into Wales for like 3 hours….doesn’t really count.
8. Spain. (2 weeks) Highlight: Seville Alcazar. The tapas. The wine.
9. Amsterdam (3 day layover). Highlight: I proposed to Dan….he said yes.
10. India (16 days). Highlight: The whole country was an absolute eye opener on so many levels. Cooking classes. 8 hour delay in an airport and watching a small scale riot unfold right before our eyes!
11. Hong Kong (1 week). Luckily just missed the protests in HK. Highlight: The breakfast place around the corner…ate there every day. This was a chill out time after the hectic-ness of India.
12. Japan (1 month). Rented an apartment in Hakuba and went snowboarding almost everyday for a month! Highlight: Spending my 30th birthday snowboarding!
13. Back to Aus almost a year to the day that we quit our jobs! Re-united with our fur babies!
14. and moved to Perth!