The travel blog for couples - Written by Melanie Waldman
Imagine a modern house that’s far more fabulous than your own abode. (Go ahead, I’ll wait.)
Set it near the bottom edge of the Earth, above a dense forest and beside a remote and turquoise ocean. Fill it with art, wine and cozy fabrics made by the neighbors, and invite kind people to cater to your every whim. Put in a button to heat your floors and a long boardwalk that leads to a table for two by the sea, and call it a day.
Welcome, my friends, to the Southern Ocean Lodge.
Remarkable Rocks, Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island was initially described to me as ‘Australia’s Galapagos.’
So naturally, my first question was:
“When do we go?” [Read more...]
A moment of perfect quiet on Kangaroo Island
After three amazing weeks of traveling as half of a couple (in Africa and London), I was home in Los Angeles for less than a day before jetting off to South Australia — sans husband and yet full of excitement.
This was my very first trip Down Under. But because I’ve now discovered that South Australia is a truly unique slice of the world, full of gorgeous wines and produce, indigenous wild animals roaming free across miles of open space, stunning and bizarrely empty white-sand beaches, and a culture that goes back somewhere between, oh, 200 and 50,000+ years…it definitely won’t be my last.
