I was really excited to go to Magnetic Island as I’d heard all about the chilled atmosphere, the Barbie cars and the range of animals. The island was also supposed to be amazing for koala spotting but I didn’t get round to doing this & didn’t actually (unfortunately) see any wild ones. There are only two […]
Stockholm in Photos | Travel Diary
I’ve just got back from a four day trip away to Stockholm. I’ve never been to Sweden before so I was very excited to go and I absolutely loved it! Here are a few photos from our time there: More posts to come soon on my short trip away. Hope you enjoyed the photos lovelies […]
The Greyhound Hop-on Hop-off Pass | Australia’s East Coast
A lot of people have asked me how I got around in Australia and this post is dedicated to telling you 🙂 What did we get? Alice and I both opted for the Greyhound Sydney-Cairns Hop-on Hop-off pass which (I think?) was priced at $425 AUD at the time but I know we paid £213. […]
Sailing the Whitsundays with New Horizon
Today I’ll be taking you back to my time in Australia over Dec-Feb… After our Fraser Island Tour and homeless night in Hervey Bay, Alice and I had the Whitsundays next up on our backpacker itinerary. We had gone almost seven weeks without using any travel agency or company to help book our activities (there are pros […]
YOUTUBE LAUNCH!
So you guessed… I made a YouTube Channel. I’ll be posting lots more on the blog about my Gap Year adventures but I also want to show you all of the footage I took whilst away! Check out my channel trailer below (I hope you guys like it!): Like, comment, subscribe (you know, the typical […]
Gap Year Reflections
Some of you may have seen my instagram post on Tuesday evening: After 7 months, 4 countries, 3 continents, 23 cities, 6 islands, 11 flights, 4 SIM cards, 1 homeless night, 2 Chinese visas, 1 unexpected trip to Edinburgh, 154 hours of Mandarin lessons, over 100kg of rice eaten, 3 home-stay families, 700+ Chinese students, […]
When Bad Luck becomes your Best Friend
We’ve all had those days where we’ve been riddled with Bad Luck. Sometimes those days can be weeks, or even months. But what to do when Bad Luck, quite literally, becomes your best friend? For the past two weeks, I can absolutely, definitely tell you guys that Bad Luck creeped its way into my life and […]
The Volunteer Series: My Experience
Deciding to volunteer in China as part of my gap year was relatively simple: I knew I wanted to come back to China for a length of time (since I’m originally from China) and I wanted to volunteer as a teacher for the experience. Not only is teaching a potential career for me in the […]
The Volunteer Series: TEFL in Photos | Chengdu
For the past two months I’ve been volunteering as an English teacher in Chengdu, China. I taught sixteen classes a week: 10 junior (year 8) and 6 senior (year 11). As part of my volunteer series, I’ve put together a post of my past two months in photos. Included are: some bits of my two-day […]
Being homeless. Literally. | Hervey Bay
After being dropped off at our hostel in Hervey Bay (Flashpackers) by the Cool Dingo Tours bus, Alice and I headed out to find something to eat. Quickly realising that there were no small cafés or restaurants nearby, we continued heading in one direction in the hope that we would stumble across something. We were starving […]