This post is about travels after reaching the west coast of France following our adventures travelling from the south, doing the Gavarnie walk and exploring Bordeaux. The current story begins with a visit to Mont St Michel, a picturesque tidal island that has been a pilgrim destination for centuries because of its early monasteries and later its magnificent Abbey. Today’s […]
Category: Retirement
Pilgrims, a walk, a long drive and wine country
We are beginning to realise that France is a big country. The drive from Paris to Carcassone took two days, and now we have only a few days to get to the northern border to cross into Belgium. There is a lot to see on the way, and it’s not possible to do more than skim the surface as we […]
Carcassone
We are back on the road after a week relaxing in the south of France, at Karma Château de Samary. There is so much to see around this district, pinned between a myriad of small hilltop villages that date back centuries and the Pyrenees. Carcassone itself is the site of one of the biggest and best preserved medieval citadels in […]
Five days in Paris
This post is a little delayed. We left Paris a few days ago, but it was so full-on there that we got a couple of days behind with photos and writing the Sway. Then the drive to the next destination took two days, with a stopover that didn’t have great Wi-Fi. Better late than never, though. We had a fabulous […]
Our first UK visit is almost over
After leaving Wales a week ago, we have just spent a week at Salford Hall, one of our Karma Resorts. After a whirlwind start to the trip, this was a good opportunity to have a couple of rest days, and a couple more driving to some beautiful little towns in the Costwolds and West Midlands. We now head back to […]
The Journey Begins
After a very long planning and gestation phase, our grand adventure through Europe, UK, North Africa and Turkey has begun! We left Australia on Friday 1 July on a flight to London, where we saw Jan’s daughter Natalie and her partner Dom for the first time since 2018. Nat and Dom live and work in London, and we spent the […]
Europe – Here we come!
The Grand Tour of Europe is about to begin! After putting international travel on hold for a couple of years, and substituting our land-based adventure from Melbourne to Cairns last year, we have at last activated the big trip to Europe and beyond. The tickets are booked for 1 July, and nothing will stop us now. Well, unless another plague […]
Better late than never!
It has been a long time between posts, so our apologies for being so late to finish the final story from our adventure from Melbourne to Cairns. The last story for the trip is below, and tells of some great stays at Townsville, Paluma Dam, Undara Volcanic Area, Mission Beach and our final destination of Cairns. We’ve been living in […]
Travelling North
It has been a long time between posts, but that isn’t because we haven’t had anything to say. Rather, we’ve been seeing and doing so much that we haven’t had much time to stop, edit the photos and write the stories from all the places we have been. Our last post closed off with a story about our wonderful stay […]
Three weeks in Southeast Queensland
Our journey has taken us into southeast Queensland over the last three weeks. The weather has been a little warmer, although it’s still winter here too. We’ve explored areas around the Sunshine Coast and its hinterland. While we were there we caught up with some more old friends before moving a little further north to the coast around Fraser Island […]
Travelling Along the NSW Coast
After our chilly interlude in the mountains, trying to get to the top of Australia’s highest mountain, our journey then took us back to the coast, and hopefully some warmer weather. The next stage of our travels was through New South Wales. We started with a fantastic day walk from Gerringong, along the Kiama Coastal Trail, then did a few […]
The High Country
We are almost two weeks into our road adventure to Far North Queensland. We have made it to the NSW Central Coast, via some very remote roads through the High Country in East Gippsland and the Southern Highlands of NSW. We have managed to fit in a lot so far, refining some of our set up and doing a few […]
We’re off!
Well, the time has come. After all our planning and packing up and setting up what will be our mobile home for the next few weeks, today we depart for the three-month journey up the east coast of Australia. We’ll be exploring lots of places along the way, and hoping to find a place or two that we can retire […]
The Adventure Begins
With the pandemic curtailing travel, and for those of us living through 2020 in Melbourne, some pretty long and severe lockdowns, the Walk the World website hasn’t had the attention that we had planned for it. We’ve managed a couple of posts in the last year by creating stories of some trips we’ve taken over the last few years, but […]
More South America
You would have thought that with all the enforced time we have during the lockdowns we would have managed to publish a few more of our past travel stories in the last couple of months. It’s amazing how busy it seems when there really isn’t anything to do. Well, we have produced three more stories from our trip to Peru […]
COVID19 Update
Hello everyone. We were due to fly to London on 21 April. 2020 to begin a 3-month adventure through Europe. But, like many thousands of others, we’ve had to cancel everything. Fortunately we’ve been able to get refunds or credits for almost everything. Now our thinking turns towards what will replace it when travel begins again. The new destination will […]