A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
Month Fifty Three saw me finally escape North America after 18 months there, and it has been so nice to have a change. I spent the first day of the month in New York City, biking around Brooklyn, visiting the Time Out Market and taking a ferry to Williamsburg, then I flew out to Denver […] Read more…
Beautiful Sydney, Australia. You could spend weeks in Sydney and not see everything worth seeing so 5 days in Sydney will never be enough time – although you can cover some of the highlights if that is all you have to work with. With it’s iconic opera house, world-class dining, stunning city beaches, and pockets […] Read more…
Month Four saw me back on the road for the first two and a bit weeks before returning home to Sydney for the rest of the month. The first night of month four was my last night in Field. After spending the day cleaning and packing I was off on a night bus to Vancouver, […] Read more…
Over the 17 months that I lived in Sydney, I made it my mission to discover as many Sydney walks as I could. And there are loads of great walks around Sydney. Sydney has an abundance of national parks as well a stunning coastline which makes it one of the best cities in the world for […] Read more…
I can’t believe 2014 is over already. I have been living in Sydney, Australia for nearly a year now and my, how time has flown by! It has been over a year since we finished our epic 13 month trip through the Americas although in some ways it feels like only yesterday that I arrived […] Read more…
So if you missed the news – Trav and I got engaged! I knew it was coming as I had already picked out my ring and when Trav said he had booked us a surprise weekend away, I was pretty sure it was going to happen then. Especially because he has never booked a surprise […] Read more…
I have had some fairly unusual jobs in my life so far. I have been a Receptionist at a haunted Hotel and at an indoor paintball studio. I have been a game day waitress in the Director’s Lounge at Chelsea Football Club, serving celebrities. I have gone business to business selling credit card machine paper […] Read more…
One year ago yesterday I was arriving back in my home country of New Zealand for the first time in over 2.5 years. It was the longest period I had ever been away despite living overseas in Australia, UK and Canada for nearly ten years. I had just completed a nearly 13 month trip through […] Read more…
The summer season has officially begun in Sydney and my oh my I am excited! There is still a bit of a chill in the air some evenings (and crazy scary storms the last couple of days), but there has already been a couple of scorching days when the thermostat reached a sweat inducing 30 […] Read more…
Updated February 2019. Sydney may not be mountainous but there is still some really good hiking to be had here. In particular, coastal hiking. And what better way to really experience Sydney’s world famous coastline than by walking it. It’s an essential part of any Sydney Itinerary in my opinion. Probably the most famous of […] Read more…