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Chiang Mai is a city in mountainous northern Thailand. The old town is home to hundreds of elaborate Buddhist temples – but they are for another day. Today is all about getting used to the heat and having a look around the old town. Chiang Mai was founded in 1296 and was the capital ofContinue reading “Exploring Chiang Mai”

I have taken well over 1000 pictures over the last few weeks. and I reckon I have deleted at least 500 whilst editing. I have added a selection of my favourites to our photo galleries. Come and have a look 😎

To mark our last day in Oz, we decided to do what we like best – good food and wine. Yes, there has been some sightseeing and earlier today we made some interesting purchases (I know, sounds very mysterious) but the focus was clearly on sensory delights. With the Swan Valley wine region being closeContinue reading “Best for last – Pinelli Wine Estate”

After travelling up the Swan river on a leisurely cruise from Fremantle, we spent the day in Perth, capital city of Western Australia, founded in 1829 as administrative centre of the Swan River Colony Having done city walking tours both in Adelaide and Melbourne, we thought we do some thing (spectacularly) different and visit theContinue reading “Watching liquid gold being poured”

When the Cheynes Beach Whaling company closed in 1978, they quite simply put down their tools and walked away. This makes visiting the historic whaling station a very authentic experience as the site is basically the same as when it was fully operational. After Humpback whales were no longer allowed to be hunted, they continuedContinue reading “Visiting historic whaling station leaves some mixed emotions”

Driving through D’Entrecasteaux National Park on the south coast of Western Australia in the rain but got rewarded with lots of kangaroos on the road drinking water from the puddles. Literally at least one around every bend They are actually not too shy and let you get quite close but eventually they hop off AndContinue reading “Even a rainy morning has a silver lining”

Exploring the Southern Forests and Valleys in Western Australia (WA), one can only be humbled by the size and the age of the trees. Warren National park is a Karri forest (type of Eucalyptus tree) with trees more than 400 years old and up to 90m high. Impossible to capture the enormity. The Heartbreak TrailContinue reading “Trees, trees, trees”

Lost count of the number of lighthouses we have seen / visited but all of them have tons of history to share albeit very similar in theme … lives of the light keepers, their family and kids, shipwrecks and heroic rescues. And there are snakes at all of them we have been to 😟 TheContinue reading “Where Southern and Indian Oceans meet”

Hamelin Bay in Margaret River Region is officially my favourite beach in Australia (at least so far). Glittering blue sea, shiny white sand, so smooth that even I don’t moan walking in bare feet. See for yourself … Where is the excitement? Hamelin Bay is home to some of the ‘vacuum cleaners of the oceanContinue reading “Excitement at Hamelin Bay”