Fleurieu Living Magazine

A healthy hedonist

At one point in my life, travel was about escapism as much as adventure. It was a chance to seek out contrasting experiences as far away from the four walls and air-controlled climate of my working life as possible.

More recently, travel has started to mean something different. Maybe the shift came with the passage of time and the additional decades of life lived. Or perhaps it snuck in unnoticed in the wake of some significant life changes: becoming a mother, experiencing grief and loss, starting a new business and feeling disconnected from creative pursuits. I started to see my ideas about down-time

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