Arriving in Helsinki and drinking refreshing tap water instead of paying €3 for bottled water in Santorini feels like a Quiet Luxury moment.…
Keep ReadingI might have jinxed it when I wrote about the most peaceful sleep I had in months on my first night here — because neither of us got much sleep yesterday, no thanks to the severe wind storm. It had started yesterday afternoon, but by midnight it was a full-blown storm. The whole house…
Keep ReadingAfter a 3-hour drive from Melbourne, going around almost four empty towns that reminded me of Timaru in New Zealand, we reached Echuca.…
Keep ReadingWe reached home a few hours ago after spending the weekend at the Captain’s Retreat, an Airbnb cottage in Mornington Peninsula.…
Keep ReadingGood morning from the Captain's Retreat - our Mornington Peninsula Airbnb for the weekend. I write while being enveloped in complete silence.…
Keep ReadingI am writing from our a cottage called Captain's Retreat, along the Mornington Peninsula.…
Keep ReadingConfession time: I have committed several travel sins, including not travelling for a long time to needing bathroom amnesties.…
Keep ReadingIt’s time to dip into the travel pool again ━ travelling as self-care, even if it means regional travel—or even day trips.…
Keep ReadingI have a dream to travel to all of Japan’s 47 prefectures by train and experience a bit of culture in each of the prefectures. I have travelled to 17 of the 47 prefectures (crossed on the below list), and a few I wouldn’t mind revisiting. When I got some free time (and am…
Keep ReadingIs there anyone who doesn’t experience travel fails? Of course not. It’s just that most of the time, I intentionally choose to write about the good experiences of my travels instead of the travel fails. Today I am going to share my travel fails here in the hope that maybe you too can relate,…
Keep ReadingI woke up today to a gloomy AF sky, a feverish body and the travel bubble announcement between Singapore and Hong Kong or wherever it's.…
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