The past few months have been extraordinary – getting to know my home city of Perth all over again and basking in the things I love about it. Carmen and I always harangue anyone we meet on our travels that they have to go to Perth, that in Australia “the west is the best”, and […]
Whenever we write about Australia, this picture inevitably makes an appearance: That’s the path to the perfect beach near Carmen’s parents home in Perth. If we ever got homesick on our 18-month odyssey, we looked at that snap and imagined being there. This morning that fantasy became hot-footed reality. We went to the beach with […]
It’s hard to believe that a year ago we were back home in Western Australia sweating in forty degree heat as we counted down the days till our wedding. Our friends and family had flown in to Perth from all points of the compass and the excitement was building to a fever pitch. To relieve […]
Before going back to Australia to get married, we pondered where to go for our honeymoon. Asia? It was nearby and on the route back to London. Eastern Australia? The cocktail bars in Melbourne and Sydney beckoned. Eventually we decided on Margaret River in our home state of Western Australia. Although we’d been there countless […]
