Itchy Feet and Titchy Feet

A travel blog that focuses on the things that most people miss or dont care about.

Category: Australia 2019

  • It’s a nice day for a white wedding

    It was Saturday morning now and my kids wanted to get up early to have a walk into Adelaide to do more gift shopping for their friends.  I was assuming that at least 5 of their class mates would be diagnosed with diabetes within a week of us getting home by this stage.  There were…

  • Ripperoo Mate

    I think that Susie Dent from Countdown would be able to confirm this for me, but I am sure there is a special word to describe that feeling you have the morning after you have spent the day on a hot beach on holiday.  Whatever that word is, I had it on the morning of…

  • Glenelg. The longest palindromic named seaside town?

    The Australian beer consumed the night before was meant to get me tired enough to sleep through anything.  A combination of the world’s nosiest road and the world’s worst bedroom window had other plans for me.  I was up around 6am and decided that left over baklava and instant coffee would be my best route…

  • Finding our feet

    It didn’t take long to work out what the problem with the Air BnB was, the master bedroom was about 10 meters away from a major road into and out of the city and the windows appeared to be made out of tissue paper.  In many ways the ambient sound of Australia is like the…