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”
Perhaps the issue of how weather impacts your travel experience, providing it’s not of disastrous proportions (epic heatwaves and heavy floods aside) is more a question of attitude than planning? (This is a continuation of this post by the way.) We were at a restaurant the other night at Apollo Bay on the southern coast … Read more about The weather, part 2: how much do you let it affect your enjoyment of travel?
Do you check weather reports before you travel? And if you do and it’s turned especially bad before you’re due to travel, do you change your trip plans? I’m talking really nasty weather. Consistently dreadful, such as the snowfalls in the UK, the heaviest in 18 years, which have severely disrupted flights. Or the heatwave south-eastern … Read more about The weather, part 1: how much does it impact your travel plans?
A couple of weeks ago we were holed up writing in an apartment overlooking the sea at Glenelg beach, Adelaide, South Australia. While the days were warm and balmy, topping 30 degrees celcius, a little higher than the typical heavenly summer temperatures they get here, the evenings were deliciously cool. Cool enough to pop on … Read more about South Australia: from heavenly summer days to the living hell of a heatwave
How well do you research the best times of year to travel to places before you buy your tickets? I’m asking because I was astonished to see Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef listed as a place to visit now on a popular travel magazine’s site. This is in fact the worst time of year to visit northern Queensland. … Read more about Best time to visit Australia? It may be summer, but don’t head Down Under