There is no greater freedom than having your own home on wheels. Being able to move freely as the wind and waves direct you and having no real plans is the ultimate escapism. Satisfying the wanderlusting itch in bounds and yet fuelling it even more at the same time. In the summer of 2018, the…
Ever been on a surf trip with no surf? In 2000, I packed my boards and jetted off on a Delta 747 from Heathrow to LAX, via Detroit. I’d been to California for the World Surfing Games in 1996, and was sort of expecting to recreate the experience with my best buddy Tall Paul and…
Every day is a Saturday when we are travelling. We’re always excited for a Saturday, just like we’re always excited for a trip. Every day away is a new story, a new adventure and brings something different. I am now (almost) eleven years old and I have been travelling since I was just a baby…
Walking the streets of Georgetown, Penang makes you feel like you have landed inside the pages of an Asian comic book. The fusion of cultures, vivid colours, diverse architecture, and large dash of colonial history, bursting proudly out of the winding maze of streets, creates a zany vibe that all feels a bit unreal. Georgetown’s…
It has been almost two months since I started writing this blog, and documenting our travel tales. I feel like I have found a vessel for my creativity that had been lying dormant within me for years. Like I’d always had this itch, and didn’t quite know how to scratch it. Like something was trying…
I think the single most valuable thing I learnt in school was how to speak a foreign language, or in fact, two. I mean, I learnt lots of valuable things and many of those weren’t academic in any way, but in terms of knowledge, the biggest gift I took from my education was the magic…
“Kuala Lumpur is the poor man’s Singapore.” Several people told us this after we planned a trip to visit in 2018. And to be honest, most people struggled to sincerely assure us we’d have a great time. We therefore had no expectations, other than exploring the vast array of world renowned Malaysian cuisine. Kuala Lumpur…
“Girls, if you could go anywhere in the world right now, where would it be?” “Dubai!” “Singapore! No wait, Amsterdam…Oh I can’t choose!” All the world’s a playground to a child’s eye and a city is a mega adventure park, where eyes are open wide and minds are on overdrive as little ones try to…
I will never forget the colour palette of Western Australia. The rich iron redness of the earth in stark contrast with the soothing turquoise ocean hues as you fly South from Asia into the Southern Land. For hours gazing out of the window of the 737, all I could see were the wild waves of…
Way back before Family Rhino, I’d been travelling for surf adventures since the 80’s. Surf trips with friends, sponsored photoshoots, surfing with the Welsh and British teams, I suppose I’d grown up travelling the world for surf, and didn’t think too much about it. This was just the norm for us at the time. We…