The Craziest Town on the Planet?
Arriving in Coober Pedy, in the South Australian outback, is like landing on another planet. Not just because the place has stood in for Mars...
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Our World School: An End of Year Report
For anyone planning longterm travel with kids, anyone who would like to travel and is delaying having kids to do so, or any parents who...
My Love-Hate Relationship with Australia
THINGS I LOVE ABOUT AUSTRALIA 1: The Landscapes After Namibia and Mongolia, Australia is the third least densely populated country in the world. And given...
Solo in Sydney* or: Getting My Groove Back
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a pulse will not be in want of attention in a cocktail...
Seeing Stars in the Outback
Weather doesn’t get more biblical than droughts, floods and plagues of locusts. And that precise trifecta has hit the South Australian outback this summer. The...
Oof! We’re in Australia…
Like a lot of Londoners, I’ve always taken a sort of lugubrious, self-hating pride in coming from one of the world’s most expensive cities (third...