Month: April 2015

Travel Quote… Switching Off

Travel Quote… Switching Off

My job can be all consuming, a lot of my free time is also spent thinking about work and doing things for work. To get a complete physical and mental break I have to travel! I can’t do anything about work whilst exploring some foreign 

Travel Essentials… Beauty Products on the Plane

Travel Essentials… Beauty Products on the Plane

These are my absolute necessary beauty items and toiletries for a long haul flight. Sydney to Los Angeles can be 14 hours, even longer to Dallas and heading to Europe is usually TWO long haul flights. Urgh. Now some people want to pack most of 

Temple of Heaven, Beijing

Temple of Heaven, Beijing

  After two days of smog, fog and rain in Beijing we were pleasantly surprised to wake up on our third and final day to sunshine and (gasp!) blue skies. We spent the morning at the Temple of Heaven, a park and temple complex used 

Photo Of The Week… Sunset

Photo Of The Week… Sunset

I am such a sucker for a good sunset (who isn’t?). Especially one over the ocean. Especially one with interesting cloud patterns and multiple colours. Ahhhhh. But this one was a bit different; sure the clouds and colours were there, looming over the silhouettes of 

Travel Essentials … Sweat Pants

Travel Essentials … Sweat Pants

Sweatpants, sweats, tracksuit pants, yoga pants, trackies, no matter what you call them they can be a very handy item to pack for travel. Never been a big fan of the tracksuit / workout look myself, until I bought the H&M blue  pair featured above. So 

Travel Quote of the Day… Patience

Travel Quote of the Day… Patience

Tomorrow I am off again to the USA. A 90 minute flight followed by a 90 minute stop over and then a 14 hour flight. Throw in checking in time, waiting at gates, immigration and collecting baggage means about a 24 hour ‘transiting’ period. I