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By my last count, we’ve flown with over 36 different airlines on 100-plus flights over the years. As I write this, I’m sitting aboard a Xiamen Air 787 Dreamliner somewhere between Melbourne and Xiamen, China. Travelling by aeroplane still amazes me. The idea that you can board a plane on one side of the world … Read more
We recently flew from Australia to China and returned with two different airlines — Xiamen Airlines one way and Air China the other. Xiamen Airlines tickets are typically cheaper than Air China by up to 30%, so the question was whether Air China’s service was worth the extra cost. Here’s what we found. Xiamen Airlines … Read more
Beijing is a city of 25 million people. A population that size comes with traffic and lots of it. If you’ve ever been stuck in Bali traffic, it has a similar feel to it. Getting around Beijing as a tourist is genuinely one of the harder parts of visiting — and when Bec and I … Read more
If you’re heading to China you need to sort out a VPN before you leave home. Not when you get there. Before you leave. Because once you land, the Great Firewall of China blocks pretty much everything you rely on — Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp. All of it. Gone. We’d been to China before … Read more
For as long as i can remember, travel has made me nervous and excited in equal amounts. There is something to be said about the comfort of familiarity — knowing your surroundings, knowing what to expect from your day, knowing where everything is. Travel takes all of that away and replaces it with the unknown. … Read more
For as long as i can remember, travel has made me nervous and excited in equal amounts. There is something to be said about the comfort of familiarity knowing your surroundings, knowing what to expect from your day, knowing where everything is. Travel takes all of that away and replaces it with the unknown. And … Read more
After riding our own scooter for a few months on our learner’s permit we had one last training session with Doug and then booked in for our licence test. To get our licences we had to do the full motorbike test — not just scooters, actual motorbikes — even though we’ll only ever ride scooters … Read more
Home for Bec and I is Maffra, a small town in regional Victoria. I was born here and have lived here for 51 years. Bec was born in Melbourne, spent some time in Western Australia, and ended up in the small towns around Maffra as a kid. We’ve been here ever since. The population sits … Read more
The key to hitting the road and living our best lives as digital nomads is making enough income online to sustain ourselves. We earn all our income online through our websites, wyldfamilytravel.com, explorevictoriaasutralia.com, polandtravelexpert.com, and thingstodoinsanur.com. There are several different ways we make money from our websites. Some make more money than others, but all … Read more
For me (Mark), my whole life, I have been interested in faraway places, other lands, and history. In Primary school, whenever we had to do a project, I always chose to do mine on a country. My earliest memory is doing a project on Russia in grade two and presenting it on an A3 piece … Read more