Travel blog & tips on a budget from a 30 year old blogger

New Year’s Eve by the Beach

Australia Perth
Posted: December 31, 2011

This New Year’s Eve day and night we spent at Cottesloe Beach which was a very different to last year which was in the cold winter in England. My sister and her fiance were on patrol for the Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club (CSLSC) from 8am until 1pm.  It was their first patrol since they…

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Australia Perth

Christmas Down Under – Perth

Posted: December 25, 2011

My parents and I  went to Perth to visit my sister and her fiance for Christmas 2011. It was a beautiful sunny day – 31 degrees. We stayed at the Silver Street Studio in Fremantle.  My parents had stayed in the Coral Street Cottage two years ago and as it was being rented out this…

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Africa South Africa

The Klein Karoo and Oudtshoorn

Posted: December 23, 2011

My friend and I drove to Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo or “Klein Karoo” (in Afrikaans) during my stay in South Africa.  My friend is from Oudtshoorn and his parents have an ostrich farm out there.  The town has the world’s largest ostrich population and there are lots of specialised breeding farms like the Safari…

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