It is a surreal and beautiful experience to meet up with friends from home whilst you’re travelling overseas. We have been lucky enough to share our journeys and experiences with many of our dear Australian friends. We gatecrashed Rohan and Jodie's holiday on the last week of their honeymoon in Phuket. We had a trashy and good ol’ catch up with Libana and Mel in Amsterdam. We travelled for an amazing 3 weeks with Jamie and Richard to Cardiff, London and Barcelona. We shared many London experiences with Aaron’s mum Anne and his nan, and also a b [View Full Entry]

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Southern California, or ‘SoCal’ as the locals like to call it, is the place to be. Oozing with trendiness and confidence; overflowing with bronzed bodies and hyper-real colours. Whilst Santa Monica had a considerably different atmosphere to more laid-back and less image-conscious Long Beach, they both uphold their Southern Californian roots and traditions of promoting excessive sun-basking, refreshingly cool cocktails and über-cool small beachside businesses. Anaheim, being the other SoCal locale that we ventured to, is home to Walt Disney’s Disneyland. The D [View Full Entry]

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It’s a Friday and the sun is shining. We are currently in Long Beach and by all good reasoning I should be joining Jian on the sands, scrambling for the skeletal shade thrown from all these palm trees… But instead I found myself on a train, Blue Line- all the way back to L.A. My solo trip is a personal one, more or less. Not just a day of indulgence, a little deeper this time. An adventure of inspiration, of sourcing a spark, so to speak. This will make sense eventually, I hope. It was a comfortable 86 degrees day, warm [View Full Entry]

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Welcome to Los Angeles; home of the Largo Lullaby and the swan song home of Jackson, Michael- professional moonwalker. They call it ‘Holly-weird’. And they are right. It’s actually incredible how off-kilter this place is. I thought that Berlin had this slight quibbiling nature just below the surface of its shining veneer… Well here in Hollywood (and even more-so Downtown), it’s not seething below the surface. It’s right in your face. To say this place is scary is utterly untrue, but to describe it as unsettling … that may be getting closer. T [View Full Entry]

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“That guy's being awfully forward with that donkey.”- Clerks 2 So, I obviously have nothing better to do with my time, right? I can hear people saying that… casual readers who only put down their travelling guitar to type up their blogs. I can hear them now. ‘This kid, this Aussie- yeah (!), he’s in one of the biggest cities in the world, New York … and what does he do? He buggers off to New Jersey to check out some potty mouthed movie sites?’ Two words, sir. Fuck.yeah. Oh and whilst I’m here, one more. ‘Snoogins.’ [View Full Entry]

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Demonic possession, congress and cardio- a typical day in D.C “Agent Mulder, I'm Dana Scully, I've been assigned to work with you.” (He shakes her hand) ”Oh, isn't it nice to be suddenly so highly regarded? So, who did you tick off to get stuck with this detail, Scully?” ”Actually, I'm looking forward to working with you. I've heard a lot about you.” ”Oh, really? I was under the impression that you were sent to spy on me.” And so began the wonderful, weird, sexy, paranormal, frustrated, exuberant, conspiratorial and beautiful relationsh [View Full Entry]

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Paris left me feeling hollowed out a bit. Like looking at a beautiful apple and biting into it and it’s not bad, per se… it’s just a little floury and every fourth bite has a couple of seeds in it. As some had warned me, gay Paris isn’t the glazed cherry some make it out to be, so I’ll save that kind of savouring for the South. So, a little irritated and a little sad leaving my family for the final time before settling in Vancouver, Jian and I hit Iceland like we were the Titanic, only we never had the [View Full Entry]

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Hold me up. I have just been to the most amazing country on this planet. Well, that I have visited anyway. I have always wanted to travel to Iceland since I was a wee little boy, associating the exotic country with eskimos and polar bears and that crazy singer Björk. Instead, we were greeted with cyan-coloured hotsprings, ginormous geysers, thunderous waterfalls, volcanic craters, breathtaking landscapes, humpback whales and non-stop partying in the 23 hours of daylight. Aaron uncannily has relations who live in Reykjavik, who were kind enough to put us up for the week. Dennis and Eyrun [View Full Entry]

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It is a strange experience going back to a city you once visited years ago. You hold particular expectations and hold onto fond memories and sensations that you cannot quite let go of. It is really disappointing to fall out of love with a city you once fell in love with. I first visited Paris 9 years ago when my father had to attend a conference and decided to bring our family there for 10 days to make a family holiday out of it. One of the last family holidays we had together, I was allowed to plan each day [View Full Entry]

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I have been finding it very difficult to write about our travels in the last few weeks. There is so much I want to write about yet when I start to type I become overwhelmed with everything that we have experienced. It is now officially 3 months since we have left Australia and we have met so many interesting people, experienced so many exotic cultures, heard so many foreign languages…it is hard to express the myriad of emotions and sentiments that we go through on a daily basis. We organised a 2-day trip to Cambridge so that we could visit Litty [View Full Entry]

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