Women’s Group Travel – Our Lapland Northern Lights Trip
Partway through our week in Lapland, with the clouds stubbornly refusing to clear, one of the women on our trip shared a feeling that I can resonate with from previous group trips I have been on. She’d come for the Northern Lights, she said, but she’d got so much more out of the trip than…
How to Train for High-Altitude Trekking as an Aussie Woman
If there’s one piece of advice worth taking seriously before a high-altitude trek, it’s this – the better you prepare, the more you will enjoy it. That’s not about being the fittest woman on the trail – it’s about arriving with enough strength and stamina to actually be present. To chat with the group instead…
First time in the Himalayas – a confidence guide for women trekking Nepal
When I told people in 2005 that I was flying to Kathmandu to trek to Annapurna Base Camp, most of them asked the same question in different words – are you sure you can do this? I wasn’t, particularly. I’d never done anything like it. Eleven days later I was standing at 4,130 metres with…
San Francisco for Women – What I did (and loved) on my 2025 Trip
Nobody tells you that a city can feel completely different once you’re seeing it through your own eyes, on your own schedule, with nobody to answer to but yourself. I went to San Francisco on a family trip in 2025 and while I wasn’t travelling solo, I came away thinking it’s one of the best…
The guilt you feel booking a trip without your partner and kids
I’ve lost count of how many women have messaged me some version of the same question: “Is it selfish to go on this trip without my partner and kids?” I still remember standing in the airport before one of my own trips, phone in hand, half-expecting a text from my boys that probably wasn’t coming…
What Is Bleisure? A Life Where Work and Travel Finally Fit
Nobody tells you that choosing yourself can be this simple I recently sat down with Emma Lovell – India travel specialist, Bleisure Coach and author of The Art of Bleisure – for a conversation that started about India and ended up being about something much bigger – permission. Permission to travel without waiting for the…
The Ultimate Women’s Travel Packing Guide – Travel Her Way
Packing for yourself is a completely different exercise to packing for everyone else. If you’ve spent years packing for kids, partners, or entire family holidays, there’s a strange moment the first time you pack a bag that’s just for you. No spare undies for someone else. No “just in case” items for a toddler. No…
Why Women Are Choosing Holidays That Hurt
And why I postponed mine for years I postponed hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu for years. There were practical reasons not to go. Financial pressure. Work changes. The longest time I’d ever been away from my children. The guilt. The fear. The “what ifs.” As mums, as women, as partners – we are…
Guatemala Travel Guide for Women
Honest advice from someone who’s been there Advice from Kate Woodford, women’s adventure travel creator with Adventure Babes Guatemala is one of those destinations that gets under your skin. Beach, mountains, jungle, living Mayan culture, world-class coffee, volcano hikes and some of the most welcoming people you’ll encounter anywhere in the world – and it’s…
Dear Mum who hasn’t stopped since Tuesday
A letter from one overextended mother to another. I wrote this a few months ago and then sat on it. I wasn’t sure I wanted to share it. It felt a little too honest, a little too close to the bone. The kind of writing you do for yourself and then quietly close the tab…
