Since moving to this side of the pond I seem to stumble across another awesome Aussie travel blog everyday. As someone who is new to the country I’ve been devouring the advice local travel bloggers have to offer about travelling in Australia, as well as learning about some of the subtle differences between blogging in the Aussie market versus the UK one. For anyone planning on travelling to Oz, or just looking for some new content to light up your feed, I’d like to introduce you to my favourite Australian travel bloggers.
The Travelling Light is such a distinctive, beautifully designed blog I feel compelled to dig around further every time I end up on it. The content is a visual curation of special places the author Katie (a branding and marketing professional) has discovered around the globe. Her list of secret places I think you’ll love include; yoga classes in Hoi An, secret bars in London and gelato in Rome.
Find The Travelling Light on twitter, facebook & instagram
Katie from The Travelling Light in Hoi An
A Pair & A Spare is a lifestyle website with a heavy dose of DIY. Geneva, the author and founder, has combined her love for craft and design with travel to produce stylish travel guides and DIY travel projects. I hope to follow in the footsteps of her quick guide to Byron Bay someday soon and will pack my DIY travel journal with me when I go!
Find A Pair & A Spare on twitter, facebook & instagram
Geneva from A Pair & A Spare in Kyoto
Mister Weekender wants me want to see more of Australia. Right this minute! Her images and itinerary suggestions for Tasmania, in particular, made me want to hop on the next flight. Site founder, Jaharn, very kindly puts all her itinerary recommendations into free downloadable pdf guides – how handy is that?
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Jaharn from Mister Weekender in Peru
Phoebe’s site is chock-full of travel tips and intuitive living advice. She’s a Brisbane local and has lots of great posts (and videos) on things to do in the city. It’s her personal column that really draws you into Phoebe’s site though, her honesty and candidness in posts such as this are refreshingly endearing.
Find Little Grey Box on twitter, facebook & instagram
Phoebe from Little Grey Box in Brisbane
The evocatively named Escape Button makes me want to repeatedly press the escape button on my keyboard until I end up somewhere that looks like its home page! Run by freelance stylist Jess, I love how she injects her sense of style into her travel posts. Particularly impressive is the way she showed a stylish side to Canberra in her latest posts – this coffee roasters looks tempting and the photos from the hot air balloon ride she took are simply breath-taking.
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Jess from Escape Button in Thailand
If I’m ever unsure about what airline or class to fly in I turn to Nicole. The self-confessed aviation geek behind Bitten By The Travel Bug writes such detailed flight reviews you feel like you flew with her (if only!) Based in Melbourne, she also writes about the street art and food scene they rock over there – she’s even got me tempted to try the Barbie High Tea at The Langham.
Find Nicole Travel Bug on twitter, facebook & instagram
Nicole from Bitten By The Travel Bug in New York
I love a good travel story and Megan (or Pegs) from Pegs On The Line is a bloomin’ brilliant story-teller. She has the ability to take you on a journey; I’ve loved retracing her father’s footsteps with her in Queensland and watching her fall back in love with Tasmania – despite some (mainly internet and transport based) frustrations.
Find Pegs On The Line on twitter, facebook & instagram
Megan from Pegs On The Line in Tasmania
Following Christine’s blog, Adventure Baby, has taught me that having kids doesn’t mean you have to be any less adventurous – or that you must stop eating in nice brunch spots and cafes! Adventure Baby features child-friendly travel guides, tips on parenting around the world and food – lots of tempting and delicious food. I particularly enjoy Christine’s reviews of drool-worthy places to feed the family in Sydney, and the cute photos of her family dining out she includes in them.
Find Christine on twitter, facebook & instagram
Christine from Adventure Baby & family in Sydney
Hope you enjoyed the list. I’d love to know what Aussie travel blogs you enjoy following.
38 Comments
Phoebe Lee
February 4, 2015 at 6:19 amThank you sooo much Jayne! You wrote so beautifully about my site, I really appreciate the kind words 🙂
I also love the other bloggers you wrote about. Katie is a friend of mine and I lose hours pouring over her site! She’s pretty much my photography idol.
Jayne Gorman
February 4, 2015 at 7:18 amYou are so welcome. It has been an absolute pleasure discovering all these beautiful blogs and the kind women behind them. Katie is my photography idol too – I love the style of her photos and her blog design in general – it’s so creative and unique. Maybe I should ask her to design mine! Look forward to reading more of Phoebe’s corner too 🙂
Katie McKnoulty
February 6, 2015 at 6:47 amYou guys!! Haha thank you, it’s so nice to know that people are reading when you’re creating so much, you’re both so lovely and you know I love your sites too. xxx
Shane
February 4, 2015 at 8:27 amEek so excited to go check out every single one of these! 🙂
Jayne Gorman
February 4, 2015 at 10:50 pmEnjoy – there’s a lot of wanderlust contained in those pages!
Leah | KidBucketList
February 4, 2015 at 8:43 amWowza! I only knew about a couple of these and now I have a bunch to start following! Thank you!
Jayne Gorman
February 4, 2015 at 10:51 pmYou’re welcome. Love introducing people to blogs they haven’t heard of – even if it can be a little distracting when you’re trying to work!
Lizzy
February 4, 2015 at 12:29 pmGreat list! I haven’t found many Australian bloggers so i’m excited to check these out.
Lizzy from Nomad Notebook
Jayne Gorman
February 4, 2015 at 10:53 pmI was so surprised at how many gorgeous Aussie travel blogs there were as I hadn’t heard of them when I was in the UK. Happy to spread the word about good work!
Jodie Young
February 4, 2015 at 10:06 pmWill definitely be checking out these blogs, they all look awesome.
Jayne Gorman
February 4, 2015 at 10:54 pmHappy reading Jodie 🙂
Megan
February 5, 2015 at 12:27 amThank you so much for your kind words Jayne (I may have squealed when I saw my name!) and also for introducing me to some amazing bloggers. Many, many hours are going to be spent on these sites…I can feel it!
Jayne Gorman
February 5, 2015 at 5:59 amYou’re welcome. Have really enjoyed your Aussie travel stories of late. Hope you enjoy your extended reading list 🙂
Amy Lynne Hayes
February 5, 2015 at 9:50 pmGreat list of bloggers! Some I know, but others I’ll have to spend the weekend getting to know. 🙂
Jayne Gorman
February 6, 2015 at 1:52 amEnjoy 🙂
Elle Croft
February 6, 2015 at 1:28 pmWho knew there were so many great travel bloggers in Australia? Great list – thanks! I have to go update my Bloglovin’ feed now!
Jayne Gorman
February 8, 2015 at 10:46 pmThere’s so many gorgeous travel blogs over here! Hope you enjoy reading them 🙂
vegeTARAian
February 16, 2015 at 10:40 pmWhat a great list! Thanks for giving me so many great blogs to read and travel inspiration.
Jayne Gorman
February 16, 2015 at 10:42 pmYou’re welcome 🙂 It’s been so much fun discovering all the brilliant Aussie bloggers and I look forward to meeting many of them at the events this week! See you soon J
Jess (Are We There Yet?)
February 16, 2015 at 11:04 pmI’m hanging my head in shame that I had not found any of these great blogs yet! On the upside – lots of fun internet exploring to do now – thanks for sharing. Great post!
Jayne Gorman
February 16, 2015 at 11:21 pmGlad I could introduce you to some new reading! Enjoy 🙂
Souri
February 17, 2015 at 12:29 amVery nice list of Aussie bloggers … thanks a lot. Lots of great photography to be found on these.
Jayne Gorman
February 17, 2015 at 2:26 amYou’re welcome 🙂
Leah | KidBucketList
February 17, 2015 at 6:36 amSo many of these are my favourites too. Phoebe is brilliant! It was her blog that gave me the courage to finally take the plunge and move from blogging for others to doing it myself (and creating my own blog!). I’m bookmarking this post! Thanks so much
Jayne Gorman
February 17, 2015 at 10:36 pmO wow, how amazing that Phoebe inspired you to do your own thing!
Swah
February 17, 2015 at 10:03 amOh wow what a great list, can’t wait to check these fab bloggers out!!
Jayne Gorman
February 17, 2015 at 10:37 pmIf the theme was food your name would be on there Swah 🙂
The Blonde Tourist
April 15, 2015 at 4:22 amLove this list.. I’m already stalking them on social media 😉
BT x
http://www.theblondetourist.wordpress.com
Jayne Gorman
April 15, 2015 at 4:32 amHappy stalking 🙂
Kate
June 13, 2015 at 7:27 pmThank you so much for sharing all of these blogs! I took time this afternoon to look through each one and they are quite incredible.
Jayne Gorman
June 15, 2015 at 9:29 amYou’re welcome! Hope you had fun browsing 🙂
Erin (Travel With Bender)
February 15, 2016 at 1:22 amGreat list! Do come check us out. We left Australia May 2012 and have been nomadically travelling for 4 years. Our 5 & 6 year old have been to 64 countries 🙂 Hope to bump into you next time we make it back home. http://travelwithbender.com/
Jayne
February 16, 2016 at 7:32 amWow I am so impressed by your well-travelled kids (and their inspiring parents!) Thanks for saying hi!
Jane | Wicked Walkabout
August 17, 2016 at 1:50 amWow, I am amazed to find blogs that I have not read yet in your list… must confess, I expected to have heard of them all! Thanks!
Jayne Gorman
August 18, 2016 at 5:34 amThat’s great! Glad to have introduced you to some new reads 🙂
Maria Alcoran
April 7, 2018 at 7:46 amI am actually on a hunt for great Australian Travel websites, and you made it easy for me to find them. Thanks!
Jayne Gorman
April 12, 2018 at 12:38 amYou’re welcome – hope you enjoy them!
Lara
May 9, 2020 at 12:30 pmI’d really recommend the ATAS travel blog as well (http://www.atas.com.au), which is run by the Australian Federation of Travel Agents. It’s got a knowledge-sharing vibe with heaps of info on domestic and international travel, and they’re running a really wholesome series of articles at the moment (during the COVID-19 days of border closure, etc.) about what travel means to us, gamechanging travel books and so on. Perfect for armchair travel during #isolife!