My mother was from Scotland and she took each of her children on a “grand tour” of Britain & Europe when we reach around 11 years of age. From then on I was totally hooked on travel, and have never stopped. When I was 24 I headed off backpacking around the world like many Australians at that age. Eight years later I returned. From my first stops in Thailand and Nepal, a ski season in Meribel (France), being held by Kurdish terrorist in Turkey, and doing the mandatory time working in London (I also had an English boyfriend for many years!), I covered a lot of ground. While I chose to return to Sydney to live, I have never lost the travel bug. These are a collection of photos of travels in more recent times.