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Mother Daughter Backpacking

July - August 2024
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  • Are they there yetTravelerMother Daughter Backpacking

    Let the trip begin!

    July 15, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 11 °C

    Luck was on our side as Keyala and mum started our journey across the world. Keyala managed to pack six months worth of belongings into one cabin bag, one personal item and a neck pillow stuffed with jumpers. Keyala was off to 6 months in Germany to be an aupair and she managed to twist mum’s arm into coming for the first couple of weeks in Europe. It was a very flexible arm…

    We had less than 24 hours between leaving the airport after a week in Hamilton island for Pop’s 70th birthday and heading back to Sydney airport for our first flight (London via Brisbane and LA) with a tonne of clothes to wash and dry and a few last minute appointments.

    Around the time we were supposed to depart from home, mum got a message from Keyala saying ‘Don’t worry, im in Wollongong. My car battery is flat but Dad is coming to fix it. I just need to pack my things and get changed”…

    Around 30 minutes later we were on the road with a GPS saying we’ll arrive 2 minutes before check in closes.

    Luckily with some swift re-routing by Dale and we arrived at the airport with 40 minutes to spare. We got to the check in desk to be told by the Qantas staff that they couldn’t check us in as we needed a visa to transit through LAX.

    We had 35 min to get the visa. Mum had the US visa ESTA app on her phone. We madly filled in the details, paid the fee and hoped for a fast turnaround. It was 4am in the US. Contingency plans were flying fast. If we didn’t get let on we might be able to swap to the flight via Singapore tomorrow or at least be on the flight to Brisbane and the visa might come through while we’re in the air.

    We waited to the final possible moment 40 minutes before our flight was due to leave. We went to the desk to explain that our visa hadn’t arrived and to ask what our options were. Just as we were explaining this to the Qantas assistant Keyala got an email “Your visa status has changed - Visa Authorised”. Email received at 5.54pm for a 6.35pm flight

    It was our lucky day. Along with this our flight was delayed so we had a leisurely check in and headed with the fam to the gate for our goodbyes.    Read more

  • Are they there yetTravelerMother Daughter Backpacking

    London Pub

    Jul 16–17, 2024 in England ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    After 30 hours of travel we jumped onto the tube and checked ourselves into our London pub. We only made it as far as a bangers and mash pub dinner and Keyala’s first pint of Guinness before the jet lag got us and we crashed out.Read more

  • Are they there yetTravelerMother Daughter Backpacking

    Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar square

    July 17, 2024 in England ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    We spent the night in our pub hostel with our unhappy Polish roommate. The beds were fine but the toilets were 🤮
    Breakfast was a delicious Lebanese flatbread. Then we went off on a walking tour with an ex-local (me).
    First stop was Buckingham Palace which was extremely crowded and shut off due to King Charles and Queen Camilla taking a horse and carriage to parliament for the Kings speech. It was also Queen Camilla’s 77th birthday so there was a canon salute.

    Next we visited Trafalgar square and Covent garden and took all the selfies.    Read more

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    Gordon’s wine bar and Big Ben

    July 17, 2024 in England ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    We escaped the crowds of the streets of London into Gordon’s wine bar below the Charing cross station. We ordered a glass of the two cheapest wines (which were delicious).
    When we emerged back into the sunshine we walked along the Thames to the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. Keyala has seen bigger.
    It was then time to pick up our bags and take the national express to stansted airport for our flight to Portugal.    Read more

  • Are they there yetTravelerMother Daughter Backpacking

    Algarve

    July 18, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    We arrived, tired and still jet lagged from our 30 hous of travel the previous day, at around midnight in the Algarve. We made our way to our accommodation. We had a code for the door but when we got there our room was locked. Very tired and jet lagged we looked around for a key and tried to open the door again. We were greeted by a a yell from the occupants inside.

    We called the owner who informed us he had double booked the room and he would come and pick us up. We waited outside the room while the occupants got a little frisky inside.

    The owner took us to a little boutique hotel near the marina called Acqua Ria Boutique. It was definitely an upgrade with two rooms three beds and a private bathroom. Our travel luck had struck again!

    After a well deserved sleep we went out and explored the old town of Faro and the marina . We had our first and second pastel de natas. Cherry cafe was the best so far.    Read more

  • Are they there yetTravelerMother Daughter Backpacking

    Bone chapel, Faro

    July 18, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    We visited the creepy Capela dos Ossos in Faro. It’s a chapel made with the bones of 1000 Carmelite monks. There was a motorcycle festival in town so we visited the chapel with a bunch of bickies in their leather jackets covered in skulls and cross bones which added to the eeriness of the chapel. There wasn’t a lot of information available so our minds were running wild with how they got the monks bones and how long it would’ve take to progressively build the chapel as each monk died.

    (We later found out that the monks were exhumed when they ran of space in the cemetery. )

    We went to a local supermarket to stock up on supplies for the boat and had a delicious lunch    Read more

  • Are they there yetTravelerMother Daughter Backpacking

    Life aboard a sailboat

    July 18, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    Keyala was skeptical about the trip to the sail boat. The last two people who lifted her bag were concerned that she was taking this much luggage aboard a small boat until she explained she was travelling for 6 months.

    When we arrived to the little fishing island of Culatra, people sunbaking and swimming off the jetty. It was hot so mum went to get some ice for our boat and some cold beer and wine.

    Andre picked us up on his little dinghy to take us to our Airbnb boat 300m from shore. We approached a half sunken boat which was around the time Andre told us we’d been upgraded to a bigger boat, the Alpha!

    The boat was cute and small. The toilet was so tiny you had to drop your pants and back into it because you couldn’t stand or turn in the little crevice that contained the toilet. We were strongly warned that flushing the loo paper would require scuba divers and €180 to unblock the pipes.

    The kitchen contained a rocking gas stove top, two salt water taps and a fridge that cooled to only 13 degrees.

    Luckily the sunsets were spectacular. And we are a sucker for sunsets. And Algarve rose and cold beer.    Read more

  • Are they there yetTravelerMother Daughter Backpacking

    Voyaging to shore

    July 19, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    As the sun rose, Keyala cooked up a magic pesto scrambled eggs for breakfast on our meagre kitchen stove top.

    Keyala did an online German class while sitting on a boat in the Algarve #flex

    My ride into shore was doubling Keyala on a small stand up paddle board, dodging wakes and fishing boats. Keyala was unimpressed by the amount of fish guts floating in the water as we moved passed the fisherman.

    Keyala recited the A-Z of things she hates about lunging on a boat to jeep motivated as she paddled.

    We arrived in the very cute fishing island of Culatra and walked across the island to the beach.    Read more

  • Are they there yetTravelerMother Daughter Backpacking

    Culatra island

    July 19, 2024 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    We spent some time at the beaches in Culatra. Around lunchtime we headed I to the little fishing village. We planned to walk to the other lighthouse village on the island but due to a bad case of chafing we needed to wait until the mini market opened after siesta.

    We spent siesta drinking caipirinha, cocktails and eating some amazing tostadas ( toast, cream cheese, Portugal cheese and pumpkin jam).

    After siesta, some vaso was procured and we made’s our way towards the lighthouse town (Farol). Around 10 minutes in, we realised it was too bloody hot and made our way back to the paddle board home to our sail boat.

    Around 50m into our homeward journey we realised the wind had picked up and there were tonnes of boats coming in and out of the marina creating wakes that a little unstable paddle board with two people aboard couldn’t handle. A kind sailor took pity on us and threw us a rope to tow us over to our little sailing boat.

    I feel that the above scenario was much more stressful that perhaps I just made out.

    Anyway, after a little afternoon nap and read, we enjoyed another spectacular sunset aboard our little boat in the Algarve.    Read more

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