24 years, 24 countries. Biochemist by trade, book addict, amateur writer and chronic over-enthusiast; falling in love with everywhere and everything. All images are my own. Instagram @hannahejohn
(As a premise to this post, if you’re planning on doing a road trip out in the Australian bush, please make sure you do get a big spare fuel can. With hindsight it’s funny for my sister and I to joke about how we never […]
The juxtaposition of the stylish, anglicised buildings of the British Raj versus the extreme poverty of the rambling slums, huddled along the sides of roads and rivers, nestled beneath elevated roads in Kolkata, was the most disquieting experience I had in India. Without the comfort […]
The Gambas Operation is the name the Spanish have for the Brits who visit each year, catch a few too many rays and return home with skin the burning pink hue of a prawn. I was told this by a Spanish volunteer in House of […]
The megalithic Salt Lake Temple of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was illuminated in the night when I landed. ‘Stay clear of the polygamists,’ had been my mum’s parting words at Manchester Airport. Up to this point I didn’t even know SLC was the famous […]
Platypuses aren’t the easiest things to spot, you’ve got to watch for the rustling of lilly pads and follow the water’s ripples. Discern a slick wet back within the murky shadows of the pond and you’ve got the mysterious creature. Not that you can see […]
One thousand and eighty Buddha’s, eyes cast down, greeted me in Myanmar; my jumping off point. Five months in South East Asia with my sister, and she had become my safety net in any travel mishaps. It was too cosy: time to test my solo […]
Creeping from my bunk room at 5am I couldn’t believe no-one else was getting up to see the sunrise over the Great Barrier Reef from the edge of the worlds oldest rainforest; the Daintree. The upside; I’d have the true deserted island experience. The downside; […]
Flying low over Cairns the town is tiny, hardly what I expected for the home of one of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World. Vast fields of sugar cane carpeted from the foot of the Great Dividing Range right up to the sandy boarder […]
Manjimup After our rather unceremonious ousting from the Kingsley Motel, I wasn’t keen to bump into Charlie or Andrew so avoided their end of Manjimup. A swift drive by to show Livi where I’d lived for my first two months in Oz and that […]
We hadn’t made it to Broome but it was already time to start heading back south. I knew how the lush, green contrast of Margaret River would be a welcome end to our road trip for Livi whose never been fond of anywhere dusty. I had […]
(As a premise to this post, if you’re planning on doing a road trip out in the Australian bush, please make sure you do get a big spare fuel can. With hindsight it’s funny for my sister and I to joke about how we never […]
If you’re a diver, you’ve got to make Ningaloo Reef your next trip! Let me persuade you… Coral Bay was initially intended as just a fly by petrol stop en rout to Exmouth. A prick on the map we wouldn’t have graced if we […]
We didn’t head out of Perth until around 1.30pm. Two girls, one severely jet lagged (a day after flying in from the UK) and the other just fairly useless when it comes to practicalities; filling up and trying to work out what we could cook […]
