Returning to your home town with a baby is a process of re-discovery. Suddenly you start going remembering your earliest childhood experiences in detail. With a toddler in tow, you also suddenly gain a whole new appreciation for fences, and coffee shops that have widely spaced tables that your stroller can fit through. Ottawa is […]

Coming to Bali and not visiting the cultural heart of the island would be a shame, so after our beach days in Sanur, we hired a driver to take the three of us to a little ‘resort’ just outside of Ubud. Sayan Terrace couldn’t have been more picturesque – nestled on the Sayan ridge overlooking […]

Oh, the weeks spent agonising over where to stay in Bali with our baby. Planning a vacation with baby in tow is so completely different from how we used to travel. With neither of us having been to Bali, it was especially hard to know where to base ourselves. Pre-child, we would have worried less, […]

I’ve never been good at long haul plane travel. Almost as bad as a child (maybe worse), I wriggle, I get up every twenty minutes, I wedge my feet into the cracks between seats, I hoist them into the magazine pouch in front of me, or rest my legs over my husbands knees if I’m […]

Las Vegas has a tendency to divide people. If I were to ask my Australian friends about the city, they would describe it as a dream trip, a city that can offer anything the imagination can conceive of, or they would enviously admit that it was at the top of their bucket list. On the […]