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Top Family Things to Do in Sydney Australia

The modern way of living often leads to stress, distressed feelings, overwork, and sheer lack of time to relax and pamper yourself. The best solution is a vacation. If you look at a luxury travel, Sydney is a good choice. It’s the capital of NSW (New South Wales, Australia). Even though it’s the most crowded […]

Top 10 Family Friendly Luxury Hotels in Sydney

Sydney is a fantastic place for families, with many things to do including zoos,  aquariums, beaches, parks, and plenty of open space for kids to burn off that endless energy.  There are interactive museums, whale watching, an indoor skydiving facility, and an amusement park to name but a few.  Or stroll around The Rocks, or […]

Darling Harbour Sydney For Families

Darling Harbour is a fabulous area that set on the water’s edge of Sydney, Australia. I know it is ‘fabulous’. Why?  Because twelve years ago I lived right here! In fact, Explorason was a bump in my tummy when we left Sydney to move to Adelaide. And we lived in an apartment right behind here I […]

Eyes Peeping Through My Bedroom Window

  I dive under the quilt as I see two dark and beady eyes looking in at me through the bedroom window as I lie in bed.  “Freak me out!” I’m here in the Adelaide Hills, and this BnB is set high on a hillside, and it’s in a quiet and secluded area of the […]

Awesome Adelaide Vacation For Families

Awesome Adelaide Vacation for families is an article you need to read for planning your next time away as a family.  We all need to get away every now and then from the ‘ho-hum’ grind of daily living and have some family fun. Whether it is for just a weekend, a week, or a month; […]

Housesitting For A Healthy Lifestyle

We have been pet and housesitting our way around the world for the past four years. We sold our home and successfully traveled to 65 countries so far, and we are still going!  I guess it isn’t your average life for some, but it is certainly a life we love, and we’d like to tell you […]

A Great Discovery – The Three Gums Bistro

How fabulous is this? I am looking at an art deco wooden bar fridge in superb condition.  It is definitely the central feature here, laden with quality South Australian wines. We had been on an afternoon walk around the Hahndorf Resort grounds where we were staying and wandered into the Three Gums Bistro just before sunset. […]

Hahndorf Resort Where Families Play And Stay

This is Hahndorf Nestled in the foothills of Adelaide, lies a small German Town named Hahndorf.  Few know that the Germans played a huge part in the settlement of South Australia. Being Adelaide born and bred, we both decided to stay in Hahndorf Resort Tourist Park, but what we failed to realize, was that there […]

A Rare Treat – Flying In A Tiger Moth

Being back in Australia means it is giving us an opportunity to explore our own homeland. A rugged and often barren land that I grew up in. With camping trips away nearly every school holidays, travel and exploring were birthed within me, in a way, by my parents. It’s school holiday time, so we’ve just […]

Home Away From Home Bayview Apartments Glenelg

Home Away From Home  with Bayview Apartments Glenelg, South Australia Adelaide is known as ‘The City of Churches’; ‘The City of Festivals’; and ‘The City of Beaches’. The most famous of those beaches being Glenelg, where the original tram line still runs from Adelaide city to the coast. Here the famed old ship “The Buffalo” […]

Relax And Stay On The Fringe Of Adelaide City

Location, location, location. We find the ideal central location where we could walk into the city of Adelaide. Recently I was asked, “Do you only write about high-end and luxury accommodation? Why don’t you include some more affordable places for families to stay in when you are traveling”? So, I listened, and this next Adelaide […]

Best Accommodation in McLaren Vale

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle…. Our sausages are grilling to perfection as we chat and drink with a lovely family from Wales, UK. The kids are playing ‘Hide and Seek’, and couples swim in the slightly heated pool behind us. We are staying at McLaren Vale Motel and Apartments, and it is the perfect place to stay, […]