Some of my ''I can't believe I am actually seeing this'' travel moments!

As I traveller, someone who lives to travel and who's whole world is about travelling, I have a few memories whilst travelling of stopping and thinking ''I am so lucky to be seeing this right now'' and ''I can't believe I am experiencing this''.  So I thought I would share some of them with you.

1.  Sydney Opera House, Australia


After a long morning taking a train from my friends house in Mount Evelyn to Melbourne City Centre, from there the SkyBus to Melbourne Airport, waiting 4 hours for my delayed flight to Sydney and then the flight from Melbourne to Sydney, I was pretty tired by the time I got onto the train from Sydney Airport to the city centre. So I found a chair in a quiet area of the train and lay my head against the window, half dozing.  About 10 minutes into the journey something made me look up.  And there, right in front of me, was the Sydney Opera House!  It is a landmark I have wanted to see pretty much my whole life and was just so excited to be standing in front of it, I actually got all teary-eyed.  What a beautiful sight!

2. My First Kangaroo and Koala!!

There are 2 things which I really wanted to see whilst in Australia, a Kangaroo and a koala.  I was fortunate enough to see kangaroos at Melbourne Zoo, Australia Zoo as well as roaming the streets randomly in Queensland!  I even got to eat some kangaroo meet at my Aussie BBQ birthday bash and it is delicious!!  I got to hold a koala at Australia Zoo, Queensland which was a very special experience.

3.  Manchester United Stadium, Manchester England

Although I'm not a big sports fan at all, I figured a visit to Manchester would not be complete without a visit to Old Trafford to see the Manchester United Stadium.  It is huge!!!

4. Loch Ness, Scotland


This has to be one of the most breathtaking views in the world!  The whole drive from Glasgow to Loch Ness I had my face right up against the bus window just trying to take it all in.

5. Loch Lomond, Scotland

Not far behind Loch Ness in the beauty department, Loch Lomond also took my breath away!  So much so that I returned the following year to see it all again.  

6. FatBoySlim

International artists coming to visit South Africa as a rare occurance, so when I was invited to see FatBoySlim by my good friend Lisa, I was pretty stoked.  It was at one of London's most popular annual festivals, SW4.  Also playing was Carl Cox, who was also awesome as well as Armand van Helden.  It poured with rain, but we still pushed our way right to the front till we were bare metres away from FatBoy himself.  This day definately goes down as one of the best days of my life!!

Perry Sand Hills, Australia

During my time visiting my friend in Australia, we did a 3 day road trip from Melbourne up to the border of Victoria and New South Wales, to a small town called Mildura.  So small town in fact, that it had not even registered on our GPS.  Because of this, we really struggled to find our motel, we were not even sure which state it was in!  Turns out it was in New South Wales, right next to the Murray River!  Once we got to the motel, we were greeted in our room by a delightful lizzard and a frog!  Being the girls that we are, we got the manager to come and remove them :)

The next morning we were not too sure what to do with our day and so headed down to the tourist information centre who gave us a brochure about a small town nearby called Wentworth.  Whilst paging through the brochure, I spotted a picture of some beautiful sand hills so I asked about them and the assistant said they were only about 10 minutes drive out of the town, literally in the middle of no where.  We decided to head down there and well, WOW!!!

Literally in the middle of a wide open field are these huge high sand dunes, made of amazing orange sand.  We quickly parked and headed off to climb them.  I had to try and climb the sand dunes with summer shoes on (a bit of a challenge) because of the snake risk in Australia.  There were random (very random!!) watermelons growing in the sand at some parts.  The views from the top of the sand dunes were just breathtaking and climbing these dunes and looking out from the top was definately one of those ''Aaaah, I cannot believe I'm actually experiencing this'' travel moments.