Our Topdeck tour eventually took us to the cities of Venice and Florence, Italy. The history was epic with architecture to match. Venice The city built on a swamp, that slowly sinks about 2mm a…
Today, the fifth of June, officially marks one month since we took off from Christchurch Airport and flew halfway around the world to travel, live the dream and be nomads. No home, not many possessions,…
Barcelona (or Barce-tha-lon-a, if you want to pronounce it like the Spanish) was amazing. It was super hot, sunny, chilled-out and pretty funky. Obviously the highlight was and always will be La Sagrada Familia. A…
Paris was the place I was given the most varied and mixed reviews. So, I tried to stay open-minded and create my own opinion of Paris, because that’s what travelling is all about. An Asian…
Our flight landed in Singapore early evening, Singapore time, bed time NZ time, so safe to say we started off tired already. We pushed through, we only had about 15 hours there and we wanted…
On the upper West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand an old gold miners’ road has been revamped into a grade 4 (advanced) mountain biking and tramping trail. It connects the Lyell campground…
A retrospective post. Last Queen’s Birthday weekend (June 2016), James and I went camping in Arthur’s Pass. This holiday falls early in June and for some reason we thought it would be fun to sleep…
The first post. What to write? So, this is my blog. It’s called Ash Elsewhere because I’m Ash and I’ll be elsewhere for a while. This blog will be a place for me to tell…