A Farewell To Sleeves

by Alex in Gear, Epigrams and Interludes

I first laid eyes on you in Melbourne. Tash and I had just moved interstate. We were young, broke, adrift in a world that was bigger than anything we had encountered up until that point, but we were independent.

We were free. 

And although we didn't have much money to spare, we decided to celebrate our newfound freedom by treating ourselves. We knew that a factory outlet was all we could afford, so we headed out.

And there you were.

Retake the City: Dublin

by Alex in Retake the City, Ireland

If you decide to travel to Ireland (and you should - seriously, this country is gorgeous), you're almost certainly going to pass through Dublin. While you may be tempted to skip through the capital city in a rush to get to the picturesque rolling hills and ruined castles, I'd urge you to reconsider.  

Dublin is a great city, and well worth taking a few days to explore - no other major city in Ireland is so accommodating to travellers, with great historical sites and a plethora of shops and bars and restaurants.

And as ever, I will be your sensible, responsible, mature tour guide!

New Year Resolutions - What They Really Are and How to Keep Them

by Tasha in Red Tape, Budgeting, Language

With the coming of the New Year, in amongst the fireworks, alcohol and (if you are anything like me) massive sugar highs, there comes a sweet euphoric moment where everything feels shiny and new. Mountains can be scaled, rivers forded, and all our daily problems suddenly seem amazingly achievable.

It's like, I'm told, the feeling of jumping off a bridge. Around half way down all the life consuming problems that brought you to the edge of the bridge in the first place, all now seem insignificant and completely fixable....bar the fact that you had just jumped off a bridge.

The intense high of a year renewed, a fresh start, feels like it will last forever. But like all things, there are swings and roundabouts and before too long all those resolutions you promised yourself on January 1st, start to look more and more like mountains again.

Dammit Mountains!  photo by: blmiers2

2014 - A Year in Photos

by Tasha in Photos, Ireland, Denmark, United Kingdom

2014 was a great year for us in terms of travel and working overseas. We left Denmark and spent six weeks in the United Kingdom before leaving to work in Ireland for the last ten months. Here is a compilation of some of our favourite photos from the last year, a nice little cross-section of everywhere we've been.

As always feel free to link to your own favourites in the comments and/or over on Facebook. I hope you enjoy viewing these photos as much as I enjoyed taking them!

Happy 2015 Everybody!