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Standing across from Albany City and the King George Sound is an area called Frenchman’s bay. It is here that today’s adventure would take place. We drove down the peninsula all the way to a place called Whale World. As we got to the car park Karen noticed the fuel gauge on empty. Making an […]

It was time for John to step up and do some serious driving. Denmark to Albany was his mission! Albany would be a challenge, as according to the Denmark Visitor Centre lady Albany is a city so you need to pay more attention guys..as it has roundabouts! So there you have it. City status in […]

We are going to Denmark, we are going to Denmark!! I have never been to Scandinavia before. This is still true, as the Denmark in question is the name of a small town in Western Australia that is situated near the city of Albany on the south coast. We got parking in the ‘centre’ of […]

After the Treetop Walk our next stop was to William Bay National Park. This is home to both the Greens Pool and the Elephant Rocks. The Greens Pool is a secluded beach protected from the Southern Ocean’s swell by rocks giving the impression of blue lagoon while the Elephant Rocks are a collection of huge […]

It was quite a journey to Denmark (Western Australia), so we decided to stop in a little place called Walpole for the night. Driving through the south-west forests was special. Both sides of the road teeming with giant karri and tingle trees, whose branches create a canopy above the road. It’s no wonder why the […]

It is not every day you climb the tallest lighthouse on mainland Australia and observe breathtaking views of where the Southern and Indian Ocean’s meet. Well it is if you work there, but we don’t 🙂 The lighthouse in question was in Cape Leeuwin – named after the first known ship to visit the area, […]

After 7 months in Asia we had missed cheese, chocolate and wine. Thankfully we were in the best region of Western Australia to get our fix- Margaret River. There are 150 cellar doors – wineries in a 100km area. Enough to keep Gerry Finn merry! The region accounts 20% of Australia’s premium wine export. Not […]

With our Wine Tour booked for tomorrow we headed into Margaret River Town to check out what else was on offer. Originally set up in 1839, the town expanded rapidly as part of a resettlement scheme at the end of World War 1. Margaret River is now the centre of one of the best wine […]

Margaret River is all about the two Ws – Wine and Waves. We will talk about Wine in a later post.The second W, waves, are in abundance on the coastline between Gnarabup and Surfer’s point at Prevelly Beach. We stayed here in a beach hostel. The room was nice and the shared kitchen and dining […]

Western Australia is massive. To explore it properly we would have to get some wheels. After over 8 months of not driving it was time to get behind the wheel again. We selected Margaret River and the Southwest region of Australia for a road trip. A quick trip to JB Hifi was needed to get […]

It was such a sunny day we decided to head to the park for a picnic, and relive our Greenwich Summers. There is only one park worth spending the day in, in Perth…. King’s Park. We got off the bus a bit earlier than intended. A chance to walk up Fraser Avenue and take in […]

Out of water, I am nothing Duke Kahanamoku

Karen’s pal Lindsay Cantle has been travelling the world at the same time as us. Part of her blogging efforts is to highlight various Street Art around the globe. She struggled to find some in Eastern Australia. After hearing this John took the camera out and about around Perth and managed to capture some for […]

Our first train since China, but it was a short journey to nearby Fremantle (Freo). We would be meeting Eilidh at 11am. Arriving in Freo we felt like we had been transported back to Greenwich, coffee shops and brunch places full of hipsters. A huge market groaning with good food and handmade delights, and most […]