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Straight On Detour is our lifestyle. We travel the globe slowly, working, detouring and taking those lesser known paths to find those locations least visited and photographed. After getting to know Asia for so many years we have finally torn ourselves away and have reached the other side of the world. Plans are not made, visa are not obtained, routes are not sketched out and we have no solid base

on the horizon. However we do have our laptops, cameras, passport and an abnormally large sense of wanderlust – that’s all you need right?

UPDATE: Its been almost 12 months since we posted on Straightondetour.com and 6 months since we posted on our FB page. ...
28/03/2018

UPDATE:

Its been almost 12 months since we posted on Straightondetour.com and 6 months since we posted on our FB page. For those of you who have been following us around the world for over 6 years, this is officially the end of an era. After much discussion, hesitation and nervousness We have decided to not renew our website hosting. I cannot actually believe that the place which has been our income, our diary, our place of work and our hobby for all those years doesn’t exist anymore. The decision wasn’t easy, there is so much nostalgia attached to that .com but in the end we knew we still had our words and our photographs and hopefully that will be enough.

So why did we end it...

Well although we weren’t blogging anymore there was still the pressure lurking behind the scenes to continue writing (we do still have a lot of adventures to blog about). On a Sunday morning over coffee Becks and I would get into long discussions about where we want the blog to go, where it will fit into our lives now that we are not full time travellers and if we actually wanted to be tied down to something on the back of a 45 hr week. In the end we came to the realisation that we don’t want to ever work full time on the blog, that we don’t want to earn a living anymore from it and we couldn’t see ourselves using our blog for press trips or publicity anymore. We didn’t see the point to continue to pour our souls into something that we didn’t want anything from and besides when we do travel in the future we are excited to be free from the constraints of wifi and feel completely zero pressure to capture every moment in words or photographs.

So where does that leave us..

Im actually not to sure, it feels very much like uncharted territory living without the blog. For such a long time travel has been our focus and in many ways it still is but there’s time in this life for a sneaky career in there too right? I don’t know... my attention span is still the size of a baby hedgehog.

Here’s Becks and Wombat at our local beach making the most of the last few days of summer here in Melbourne. There is so much love in this picture... and that’s a pretty good goal.

Ps. If you are on Instagram I do post daily :) see you over there xx

A new chapter begins... after 10 months of holidays and over 7 years of travel we are putting the bags down permanently....
28/08/2017

A new chapter begins... after 10 months of holidays and over 7 years of travel we are putting the bags down permanently. .
We have achieved everything we have wanted to in the travel sphere over the years and now we've both agreed there are some unturned stones in a life without a backpack. .
Sitting here at Heathrow airport with everything we own now underneath the plane feels surreal, let the next chapter begin. .

See you all on the other side. ✈️🛩✈️🛩✈️🛩✈️🛩

Within 24 hours of returning to the UK from Norway we took a road trip to Wales with three of our favourite munchkins (S...
16/08/2017

Within 24 hours of returning to the UK from Norway we took a road trip to Wales with three of our favourite munchkins (Samantha that includes you!!).
Loads of firsts for Prue on this trip:
1st 'Sun' holiday
1st time in north Wales
1st time on a kiddies holiday where there were games, disco's, quiz's, bingo and other entertainment from dawn to dusk
1st time seeing gypsies in action

Love this family to pieces, we are sooooo going to miss you.

Then we went camping and somehow managed to get robbed. But we cheered ourselves up by snatching the chance to catch up with Megan from Tonga and climb the highest mountain in Wales at the same time. BOOM!

Out of our tent and into the arms of these two ...Becks worked with Ellen and Peter​ on the Great Barrier Reef many moon...
31/07/2017

Out of our tent and into the arms of these two ...
Becks worked with Ellen and Peter​ on the Great Barrier Reef many moons ago and it just wouldn't have been a proper Scandinavian trip without them.

Since the moment we touched down in Stockholm and met Ellen and Pete at the airport we were whisked away into a world filled with Swedish cabins, sauna's, lake swims, Fika (cake and coffee), sailing adventures, unit hunting, banana pizza, can jam, wild berry and mushroom picking, Stockholm city antics and Knacke' bread paddles.

Often Becks and I travel on our own because we are so totally focused on our travel goals and where we want to reach and we can forget how good it can be to mucking around with a great bunch of people.

These 9 days were the best.

Another quick catch up and our final footsteps in Norway. Leaving the Lofoten Islands absolutely ruined from the hiking ...
26/07/2017

Another quick catch up and our final footsteps in Norway.

Leaving the Lofoten Islands absolutely ruined from the hiking and the addictive midnight sun, we sneak a few days further north exploring the islands of Vesteralen. Here we hiked the Queen's route, hunkered down through a sky full of rain before making our way south via one hell of a glacier to Sandnessjoen and met up with our favourite Norwegian babe Eline and Elli.

It sounds a little chaotic but in true Prue and Becks style our last weeks have been super chilled with a little adventure on the side.

This morning we woke up to find out that we've been robbed... For the first time ever in our travels!We've spent the pas...
25/07/2017

This morning we woke up to find out that we've been robbed... For the first time ever in our travels!

We've spent the past few days talking about how much we've missed having "stuff" in our lives and the excitement to have more than 2 pairs of jeans for once and a new phone.

But then today we wake up in our little tent in Wales to find those new trainers are missing, and a phone and cash etc... Is the world sending us a message, that "stuff" shouldn't be our goal?!

Feels like it!

Bloody hell Wales, couldn't you just send a text.

This is our last FB post about the Lofoten Islands and instead of letting it drag on I've crammed in the whole last chun...
19/07/2017

This is our last FB post about the Lofoten Islands and instead of letting it drag on I've crammed in the whole last chunk of our time there.

Random facts to know about the Lofoten Islands, the north and Norway in general:
1. You can free camp on any public land in Norway

2. You can camp on private property up to 2 days without needing to ask for permission.

3. The arctic circle is defined as the southern most latitude where the midnight sun can be seen at the summer solstice

4. The Lofoten Islands were originally developed by the cod fisherman who built those basic iconic red shacks close to their fishing grounds so they didn't need to row as far.

5. Norway is ridiculously expensive. To buy a cheap cider from the store it will cost £3/$5, or a capsicum for £1.5/$2.50... Often we would buy a 4 basic things from the supermarket and spend £25/$40 ... and that includes their famous chocolate

6. Norway has THE best chocolate in the world. It's called Freia Melkesjokolade....

We're currently in Stockholm being wrapped up in all sorts of Swedish love by Peter & Ellen and haven't been on FB. Here...
14/07/2017

We're currently in Stockholm being wrapped up in all sorts of Swedish love by Peter & Ellen and haven't been on FB. Here's a bunch more pics from our arctic adventures in the Lofoten Islands.

Here's a few images from our first two days in the Lofoten Islands. Editing is going slowly and so is sorting out all of...
07/07/2017

Here's a few images from our first two days in the Lofoten Islands. Editing is going slowly and so is sorting out all of our pictures but we're really happy with how some of them have turned out. The colours feel accurate.

So what's so special about this place anyway?

The Lofotens are an archipelago of 5 main islands connected with bridges. At 68°north they are far within the arctic circle yet experience one of the world's largest elevated temperature anomalies relative to its high latitude. Here you have alpine regions as low at 750m above sea level, while equivalent flora in the alps sits at 2300m.

But what really drew us here were the crazy jagged mountains seemingly erupting from the Norwegian Sea. It's said that the Lofotens are the alps with their toes dipped into the ocean and we couldn't help but agree.

After a few nights wild camping our little tent is up amongst the RV's tonight YESS!!!! We are back to being squeaky cle...
01/07/2017

After a few nights wild camping our little tent is up amongst the RV's tonight YESS!!!! We are back to being squeaky clean and feeling FRESH! Baby wipes and talc only go so far :P

I cannot explain how incredible the Lofoten Archipelago is, the Norwegians, Germans and French have been keeping this hiking spot a secret from the rest of us. I write this post with exhaustion, Becks and I have hiked our little hearts out and have pushed our tired legs day after day to climb the mountains we dreamt of.

We have some WIFI tonight to share some pictures from the trip, (We haven't even touched any of our hiking pictures.... there are hundreds just waiting on our SD cards :S) so here is a bunch from our first days driving in northern Sweden, across the arctic circle and finally to the Lofoten Islands.

Leaving our friends in Oslo, we get back on a plane (and then another) to start the next leg of our Scandinavian adventu...
27/06/2017

Leaving our friends in Oslo, we get back on a plane (and then another) to start the next leg of our Scandinavian adventure. The Lofoten Archipelago in northern Norway.

As you may know, Norway is up there as one of the most expensive countries in the world and so when we were looking at hiring a car in the north for a week we were looking at £300+. After a day or so counting our pennies and weighing up the cost of the week vs the experience, it came to us, why not check out the cost of hiring a car in Sweden and driving across the border?

For £300 we could hire a newer car for THREE WEEKS whilst seeing a chunk of Sweden at the same time OH and actually drive across the arctic circle rather than flying.

and so the plan eventuated and here we are.

Prue Rebecca

We've found a little bit of WIFI up here in the arctic and couldn't resist sharing some behinds the scenes piccies from ...
26/06/2017

We've found a little bit of WIFI up here in the arctic and couldn't resist sharing some behinds the scenes piccies from 'that' image of us dangling our feet from 1100m.

It's amazing how much you can cram into a weekend...

Although we never captured the moment, we won't be forgetting that cider in the sauna which left our lips burning and that too hot hot tub that required countless glacial water buckets to get in.

Oh and that chicken dance on the Tongue.

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