We had booked in to a quiet hostel at Scarborough Beach which is called the Western Beach Lodge and it is fantastic. Small, super friendly and with lots of long term visitors it's more like a shared house than a hostel. We spent the first couple of days in and around Perth, visiting the city and spending time in beautiful Kings Park. We also had a trip to Fremantle. The weather was pretty changeable as it's just in to Spring so we had 4 seasons in one day pretty ...

The 4 days we had at home flew by in a blur of washing, unpacking, re-packing, visiting friends and Max's family and shopping. By Monday, we were exhausted and ready to get off for part 2 of our trip. The flight from Amsterdam to London was fine and we killed time at Heathrow airport walking around the shops, eating, making phone calls and boarded the plane on time. Our seats were ok and BA was a good airline with lots of good movie choices (for me) and food (for...

Max was a trooper and drove for 12 hours to get us to a service station just North of Madrid for our sleep in a car park before heading North of Barcelona to a place called Calella de Palafrugall where we had a little break for 3 days, a lovely chic resort, full of nice shops and well dressed people. After our 'break' we went North to visit some of the Pyrenees again, east side this time and found some little gems and beautiful drives through the mountains - Eus...

Portugal on the whole is a lovely country. We last left you in Guarda, in the Serra da Estrela national park, which was beautiful. Great scenery and staggering cliff climbs in the van and steep drops on the passenger side (Max could tell from the mini screams from me as we wound our way to the highest peak in Portugal - 1993m). You can see from the pictures just how lovely it was. After the heat of inland Portugal we headed further west to Coimbra, the birth and...

Wat een fantastisch gevoel om na 1.5 jaar noeste arbeid weer terug te kunnen keren in dat oude ritmeJ. Nu na 3 weken heb ik de zin gevonden om een stukje te schrijven en met jullie wat van onze belevenissen en indrukken te delen. Ja, deze keer is het idd "onze", geweldig om zo'n lange trip met je vriendinnetje te kunnen beleven en indrukken te kunnen delen. We are still on speaking terms ( tot nu toe J ), echt super! De eerste 7 weken van onze 10 maands...