The visa issue
Why do we need a visa to live in a country? Why is it so hard to get one? Why can’t we just live where we choose to live? These are questions I have been asking over the past few weeks. Of course, I know the answers to all of them, and I know visa [...]
Back to reality – Sydney style
There’s nothing like returning to work after a long holiday to bring you back down to earth with a bump. After spending a month in Indonesia and one week in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, the holiday is over, the tan is already fading and returning to work has been a shock to [...]
Island Time
Travelling goes hand in hand with making discoveries and learning something new but this time I may have hit the jackpot – I have learnt how to become totally relaxed. The location for the source of this new found skill is Gili Trawangan, a tiny paradise island in Indonesia and a short hop skip and jump from [...]
Itchy Feet
It’s true what they say – time really does fly when you’re having fun. It has now been two-and-a-half years since I left my safe life in Chester, UK, to embark on an adventure, although at the time I had no idea I would be away for quite so long. I had a professional [...]
Hayley spent her childhood in North Wales but considers Chester her home. She has been travelling for the past two-and-a-half years. Before that, Hayley was a reporter for regional daily newspaper, The Chester Leader. She left the UK in 2009 to go to New Zealand on a working holiday visa and stopped off in Hong Kong along the way, which became her first experience of travelling solo. It was then that the travel bug really took hold. Despite intending to be away for only six months, she ended up spending two years in New Zealand, working and travelling around the north and south islands with a trip to Samoa thrown in for good measure. She then made the move across the Tasman Sea to Australia and lived in Sydney for five months before travelling up the east coast of Australia and across to Darwin, where she currently lives and works.