Lara DunstonI’ve been musing about airports and thinking about my experiences at Melbourne and Perth airports last week and what made them so bad, and reflecting upon what makes an airport cool, what kind of things would actually make the experience so much more fun! The factors that make Melbourne so unpleasant are the lack of … Read more about What makes an airport cool?
What are the developed world’s worst city airports? And what makes an airport bad for you? I’m convinced Melbourne and Perth’s airports must be somewhere on a worst airport list. Due to bad plane and bus connections, I spent a fair bit of time at both of these Australian airports this past week, and it … Read more about The developed world’s worst city airports?
I’ve just returned to our temporary home and office (my uncle and aunt’s house at Bendigo, north of Melbourne) after almost a week visiting family in Perth, Western Australia, the country’s most isolated capital. And as much as I love it here, returning has been a shock to the system. While we had clear blue … Read more about The appeal of Perth: endless sunshine, blue skies and a bearable “lightness of being”
Do you ever get the sense that you haven’t been anywhere after you’ve travelled somewhere? And yet when you return you feel as if you have been ‘away’? I did a whirlwind trip to Perth this week to spend time with my Mum for mother’s day (last Sunday in Australia) and her birthday (the day … Read more about From here to there and back again
Check out our latest piece on Australia’s Top End on Viator, which is running a series of posts by Terence and I on destinations we’ve covered and things we’ve loved during our road trip Down Under. Here’s a bit of a taster, but read the full blog over at Viator, where you can also book … Read more about Australia’s Top End: part 1