sarahsnowchic

Hydrotherapy And now for something a little bit different!  It is true that travelling has shown me some incredible ocean, pool and waterfront locations around the planet. Some balmy and warm and some icy and freezing, but that comes with the snow chaser territory I guess ;)  Let's talk for a moment about warm water.... These snow and other adventures have taken me from the sulphur hot springs and hot tubs of the Canadian Rockies to naked bathing in Hokkaido's Japanese Onsen and once diving into the crystal azure waterfalls and underground limestone cenote cavern's of Mexico's Yukutan Peninsula.  I've worked in Bath, Somerset in the spiritual home of hydrotherapy with its Roman bathing rituals and travelled to the travertine terraces or "cotton castle" mineral compositions in Turkey's  Pamukkale or ancient Hierapolis (Holy City).  Similar areas have been drawing the sick, injured and inquisitive to their thermal properties since the time of cl...

When I first looked into travelling to Laos it was as adventurous newlyweds backpacking home to Australia from Europe through SEA.  Less socially conscious and sustainably-minded, I'd heard great things and it was all about the gibbons and tree-top zip lining experience on the border near Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. We'd start here and plan a trip down the Mekong Delta and then spend lazy days in a haze of cocktails floating in a rubber tube out of Vientiane. We never made it. A long story about stolen passports, Portuguese police stations, embassy visits, emergency documents, missing visas, a lot of hassle and a lot of time spent in Nepal and Vietnam and Cambodia instead would mean Laos would have to be another trip altogether.    Jump to 4 years later and as parents of a nearly-two year old the Laos experience we would end up having would be somewhat similar to those earlier travel tantalisations and  entirely different al...

From Laos to Langkawi, Bali and back and multiple domestic trips to Sydney and the Sunshine Coast this mum of one took 20 flights with her 3 to 23 month old. She proceeds to talk in the third person and lists 20 things she learnt about plane travel at the various ages and stages including top tips for travel with a toddler and parenting pitfalls to avoid. ________________________________________________________________________ I will start with a disclaimer justifying the number and nature of flights we took as new parents by blaming my inherent wanderlust and fear or missing out (FOMO) which became amplified by parenthood and this increase in hours spent at home while on maternity leave.  Suddenly the southern sun wasn’t sunny enough nor the water warm enough and I needed to be anywhere and everywhere more tropical, and immediately.  There was also the chronic sleep deprivation contributing to an exponential increase in screen and internet hours (albeit not mumm...