These are a few things that we would do differently next time or wished we had known beforehand: Take less clothes: It’s always the same you take too much stuff  (or at least I do). But as we traveled from cold Sydney to warm Alice Springs to hot and humid Darwin/ Cairns we needed everything from…

The word “Koala” means ‘no water’. The name for the animal was given by the original owners of the Australian continent because they had observed that Koalas do not drink water. Also you will not find Koalas in wet areas like swamps. You can’t eat the flesh of young coconuts. But their water is really…

With the kids being old enough now to really benefit from travel and not old enough yet to do so on their own and with friends we decided to take the opportunity this summer to head for “down under”. We will be flying to Sydney and from there travel on to Ayers Rock, Darwin, Cairns…