Drifted Pangea

14/06/2020

The world was a simpler place when this photo was taken (roughly 365 days ago). Looking out into the sunrise, waiting for a boat to take you to the Greek Islands. Imagine getting on one of these bad boys right about now 🏖

09/06/2020

What a gorgeous little place we stumbled upon purely through the avoidance of expensive accomodation in the Cinque Terre region. You can read all about it in the blog I’ve just linked in our bio. Not to be confused with Genovia, the fictional European land of which Anne Hathaway is the princess 👸🏼

18/05/2020

Took me 10 months to get Blake to do a piggy back shot and I think it really paid off 🐖

17/05/2020

This is Blake. He’s more of a behind the scenes kinda guy. Takes amazing photos and brings them to life in post. Occasionally though, he does lend some blue steel to a photograph of mine 📸

13/05/2020

How’s the serenity? 🌱🌞🌈

10/05/2020

If you caught our last post, this was the “real lake” I was referring to. Cooped up in iso, I often thought about this day. How it was just the right amount of difficulty. Leisurely mainly, but with the occasional test. How there was so many beautiful things to see along the way. All the watering holes, mountain sides, and the hundreds of free-roaming cows. How I’d never blame Blake for dragging me on an adventure through the wilderness again when it got too hard. How I was always happy I did it in the end. I really do hope that once the rona is on her way, we all take this life for everything it’s worth ✨

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07/05/2020

When this is just the pit stop to the real lake, you know you’re in for a treat. The lakes of Perú are really somethin else 🦋

04/05/2020

Never again will we take for granted hiking all day amidst beautiful scenes like this one here. Excited to get back out into nature. Even the thought of going to the shops gets me aroused. 4 days left out of 54 in strict quarantine 🌿

30/04/2020

This gorgeous hillside hostería was the least you could ever spend on a secluded, quaint, romantic getaway. We felt like the only two people on Earth. And that could largely be due to the fact that we were the only two people staying there. I can’t answer why this place isn’t completely booked out all the time. You get to pat the resident llama and lamb, access to a huge whirlpool bath, and a farm style breakfast cooked for you every morning. The family that run it spoiled us with warm and welcoming service. So, what I can answer is whether you should go - and I couldn’t recommend it more ✨

30/04/2020

Travel gives us this incredible opportunity to disconnect from our smartphones - but those smartphones sure do make travel easier. Here are our top picks for the best travel applications!

While travel does give us this great opportunity to disconnect from our smartphones, those smartphones can help us with everything from accommodation and rideshare to languages and food delivery apps. Here are our top picks for the best backpacker travel applications.

27/04/2020

Legend has it that if this neo-Gothic basilica (the largest in the Americas) is ever officially completed, the world will come to an end 🌎

23/04/2020

Another swinging shot because we love swinging (no pun intended)

22/04/2020

London is more than its grey skies and its… Well, grey buildings, grey pavements, grey river. If you dig a little deeper, you can see all the colour London has to offer.

Everyone can go to Buckingham Palace and the Tower Bridge and say they've been to London, but to say you've really experienced The UK's capital, you have to live London like a local. Discover all the colour that this seemingly grey city has to offer in the form of beautiful food, underground nightli

21/04/2020

Swinging out of our mandatory hotel quarantine like 🙋🏼‍♀️ 3 more days and it’s cya later! This view was overlooking the gorgeous, never-ending capital of Ecuador. Quito was somewhere we didn’t expect to love nearly as much as we did! 🌄

19/04/2020

18/04/2020

A translation for Laguna Cuicocha would be Guinea Pig lake. They really do love their Guinea Pigs in this part of the world. And their stunning lakes. It’s an interesting concept hiking around a lake. You don’t get that stunning reveal at the end, but you do get a stunning view the entire time. Might not look hard, but at 3200m above sea level, this one tested us 🥾

16/04/2020

This photo really captures the essence of South America for me. A continent that rests on Christianity and art to get them through the good times and the bad ⛪️🎨

15/04/2020

"Once that was behind us, the three of us finally got to go and see the simultaneously beautiful and backstabbing Barcelona".

As a 19-year-old on a 36-day Contiki tour, Barcelona was the absolute t**s. The epitome of fun on a European getaway. I think back to our entire tour group walking the streets singing “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie”, followed by the notorious “Oi, Oi, Oi” and die a little bit inside. Bless us, we w...

14/04/2020

A pretty impressive rock there in the background. And it’s not often you can say that about rocks. In fact, this rock is so impressive that the two surrounding towns have an age old dispute over who gets to claim it. However, Guatape may have had the last laugh by vandalising it with a G and an incomplete U (that looks more like an I). The incompletion was of course because El Peñol, the rival town, rallied a mob to stop it before they could even finish the second letter. Also, there’s no rock emoji. Because normally people don’t care about rocks 🗻

11/04/2020

Another share! Thanks Ω Χαμός - Oh Hamos! If you haven’t heard about Milos, then fix your mistakes now.

Translation of their message:

“How beautiful in these difficult days we are going through everyone is sending us articles written about us and our island by our customers in the summer!!!!! It's very special in these difficult days for a customer to simply remember our island and ‘Ω! ΧΑΜΟΣ!’”.

The least touristy of all the Greek islands we’ve visited, Milos is an undiscovered and unexploited treasure. I hope I can say the same in fifteen years, but I doubt it. Slightly more upper-class than others, the island remains to be a gem enjoyed mostly by locals, but open to the few tourists who...

11/04/2020

A list of reasons why crossing the Colombia / Ecuador border by foot is the only way to go:

• reduces your carbon footprint
• saves money
• you can have one foot in Colombia and the other in Ecuador
• this church ya’ll

08/04/2020

Here we present to you the tallest palm trees in the world. The four hour hike fresh off the flu was rough but worth it. (Nobody be alarmed, this was pre-Corona). At times - when we were higher than any tree and had clouds in our noses - I wondered how the trail could possibly still be progressing vertically. Only to go straight back down to near the start. You basically climb up and down a big ol’ hill when you could have just seen it from the get go. But you know what they say, you don’t deserve the view unless you worked for it. If you choose to put yourself through the pain, make sure you do the hike anti-clockwise. That way you finish with the trees and not that big ass hill. You can’t tell, but an old man is in the background of this picture threatening us with the police. Drones really p**s people off, but maybe not if they saw the results. If there’s no sign, that bad boy be flyin 🛸

06/04/2020

Day 23 of lockdown. In a country with double the population of Australia, but less than half the cases. Alcohol has been banned again. Something about it weakening your immune system. Men and women are only allowed out on alternate days. Saturday’s are for the girls btw. Knew it. And Sundays are for absolutely no one. Finally got a flight home. 8th of April, baby. Two weeks of quarantine await us in Victoria, the state in which we land. Followed by an additional two weeks at home. I think that by the end of all this we will be up there with the most quarantined individuals on Earth. Anyway, this is a nice waterfall 🏞

04/04/2020

Northern Colombia. Where crystal clear waters meet the jungle. Where palm trees surround you basically always. Where you can party any night of the week. Where you can’t catch a warm shower. Where you’ll eat way too many empanadas. Where you’ll meet absolute legends. Where you want to be 🌴

03/04/2020

Read here about the weird and wonderful experience that is La Tomatina Festival through Stoke Travel 🍅

Nestled on the southeast coast of Spain, Valencia — lovely as it might be — is only a big-ticket location during one time of year. When the tomatoes are at their ripest. Not because they do a good bolognese or anything. The tomatoes I speak of are not for eating. In fact, you won’t be eating t...

02/04/2020

Took a night off from the hostel life to bring in Blake’s 24th birthday in the most boujee kind of way. (Before immediately returning to the lifestyle for some wild vibes that night). This two storey eco-hut was everything and more. And we got the full eco experience since the power was out for about 80% of our stay. Blake was pretty lucky having his birthday land in Minca. Renowned for its coffee, it’s cocoa, it’s waterfalls, and of course, it’s views. We rented a motorbike and rode way up into Minca’s mountains where we simultaneously enjoyed the view of mountain ranges, the jungle, and the beach for a gorgeous sunset. I made that sound easy though. The trail to Los Piños isn’t for those with soft spines 🏍

01/04/2020

Some light isolation reading for ya’ll 💖

That answer put simply — yes, do it. You’ve heard of fusion cuisines and restaurants, but have you heard of fusion cities? Probably not, because I just made that up. But if that were a thing, Granada would be the Spain-Morocco representative. This is what that looks like... Tapas are enjoyed on ...

25/03/2020

The best hikes are those where the journey is as beautiful as the destination. Which kind of reminds me of life. Sometimes the process is the most fulfilling part. Sometimes the worst situations lead to something beautiful. And the good times wouldn’t be so sweet without the bad. Looking forward to those sweet times, but trying to find the opportunities in crisis 💭

20/03/2020

Today might not feel like the best time to be a travel page or to follow a travel page. International adventures are looking to be next year’s dream. But whether it be tomorrow or in five years, seeing the world is an excellent dream to have. There are few other ways to truly appreciate people, culture, food, scenery, and plain old fun to the same degree. However, we see this virus as a message from Mother Earth. She needs a moment to breathe and rejuvenate before we set out to get to know her more. After everything she’s done, we all owe her that much. Being stuck in isolation can be testing. We’ve experienced that first hand. But we’re choosing this situation to reflect on how lucky we are to have seen what we’ve seen, and to look forward to more adventures in the future. Whenever that may be. We invite you to do the same. Don’t lose your travel bug. Don’t lose your positivity. Good times are ahead. Even if it may not feel like it. Peace n love 💓