Road Trips
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Solo Road Tripping in New Zealand’s South Island
In June 2021, I wrote a blog post about my travel goals. Eighteen months later I finally achieved some of these after booking a spontaneous solo trip back to New Zealand. One of my biggest personal goals has been to travel solo overseas, and I’m thrilled that I have finally achieved this! On this eight…
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From Katherine to Kakadu: Road Tripping in Australia’s Top End
The Northern Territory has been on my bucket list for a while, and I was lucky enough to spend a week road tripping through the Top End with my dad in October! This was a particularly exciting trip because I got to tick off my seventh of the eight states and territories in Australia. Only…
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The Ultimate Coastal South Australia Road Trip Guide
We’ve just returned from two weeks of road tripping around South Australia and it was amazing! SA has some of the best coastlines I’ve seen in Australia with beaches to rival the Whitsundays. If one positive has come out of the pandemic, it’s that Australians are becoming more aware of how incredible our home country…
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Long Weekend Guide to Coffs Harbour, NSW
Coffs is located on the mid-coast of NSW, a 5.5hr drive north of Sydney or 4hrs south of Brisbane. The town also has an airport so you can fly in. Like anywhere outside of a city in Australia, you definitely need a car to get around. We made it a mini road trip and had…
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Best Stops on a Brisbane to Cairns Road Trip
We’d been to Brisbane and Cairns in separate trips but never done the drive, so we were keen to see more of the East Coast. The drive from Brisbane to Cairns is around 20hrs and we split this up over five days, leaving time to explore Cairns at the end. I’ve written a separate post…
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3 best day trips from Cairns, Queensland
Many people visit Cairns as the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. Having already visited the Reef several times, we had three full days to explore Cairns’ surrounding areas on our Queensland road trip. Luckily, Queensland is full of many incredible sites within just a few hours drive.