Treks and the City - Charlotte Ward

Treks and the City

Writer Charlotte Ward charts her travels and reveals all about the highs and lows of her new life Down Under. As well as her regular blog on iVillage.co.uk, you can follow Charlotte on Twitter and also catch her at www.charlotteward.net

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Breathtaking beaches and dolphin days

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Mar 19

Ballooning in Bangaloo

Seeing my best mate Clare walk through the arrivals at Sydney airport I immediately pounced on her and dissolved into tears. Bless her, despite never having been a big fan of all that touchy feely stuff, she hugged me back warmly. With just two weeks to cram in as much as we could, our Australia...

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Feb 20

4x4 frolics on Fraser Island

Finding myself at a loose end I decided to go on a last-minute trip to Fraser Island in Queensland, a place everyone seems to rave about. Driving for two hours from Bundaberg I arrived in Rainbow Beach and met up with the Sunrover tour, a three day 4x4 experience taking holiday-makers on a whistle-...

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Jan 17

On the road and a surprise wedding

After a month blighted by homesickness it was with some relief that the melancholy began to lift and I was able to get back to feeling happy again. A week before Christmas I jumped on a plane to Brisbane and headed up the East coast to visit family in Noosa and Bundaberg. Back in the UK, taking...

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Dec 19

Homesick

When I booked my ticket to Australia back in June I didn’t envisage regretting it for one moment. Bypassing the English winter was a no-brainer and to be honest I was desperate to exorcise the procrastination I felt was engulfing me in London. Sitting on the plane with a whole new world ahead...

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Dec 14

Brisbane routes and Brisbane roots

With more than a month having passed since I arrived in Sydney it was high time I headed up the coast to Brisbane – a city I have visited many times in the past. My Australian father was one of 12 children, meaning that I have a ridiculous amount of family in Queensland. Trying to remember...

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Nov 04

A close encounter of the creepy crawly kind

For as long as I can remember I’ve had a bit of a phobia of spiders. Although I don’t mind them generally, it’s the thought of one scuttling around my bedroom while I’m asleep that makes my skin crawl. For years I even suffered recurring nightmares where I’d wake with...

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Oct 31

The Curious Incident Of The Friendly Sydneysider…

I’ve always considered myself to be a friendly person but there is something about London that can make you a little cold. I’m not saying that my beloved Londinium is a horrible place, far from it. I lived in the big smoke for seven joyous years BUT the fact is London can be a place...

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Oct 28

I’m leaving on a jet plane

In the last couple of years there have been some big changes in my life. In my early adulthood I just assumed that 30 was this magic number where I’d be a ‘proper grown up’ with boxes for mortgages, marriage and babies rapidly being ticked. Well I bought my own flat (go me!) but...

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