Sally-Ann Brown
Who Am I
I have over 20 years experience in the hospitality and tourism industries including a year with Ansett Australia as a Flight Attendant and five years working with Qantas Airways in Ground Services. In addition, I have a Bachelor of Business with a double major in Tourism and Marketing. Plus, literally a lifetime of varied travel exploits. This provides me with a wealth of travel tips to share.
What Brought Me to Here
My travel life was born at a very young age thanks to my parents who took my younger sisters and I travelling in the caravan at every opportunity – I was born, raised and live in Perth, Western Australia. As a family, we travelled most of Western Australia, from Port Hedland to Albany and everywhere in between. We took a trip across the Nullarbor and up to Brisbane and also a cruise to Fiji and Vanuatu.
With my mum and younger sisters
As an adult, my love of travel blossomed into a desire to see the world. At the age of 21, I went on a driving holiday around Australia, I had studied Hospitality which allowed me to easily work and travel.
Upon my return to Perth in 1993, I began saving and planning for a backpacking trip to Europe. To prepare for my adventure I read a great little travel tips book about backpacking as a single woman and discovered travel guides. In particular the handy travel tips section at the back of the books.
Backpacking through Europe in 1995
Why Tips 4 Trips
Since that trip, I have always referred to the travel tips section in the back of Lonely Planet Guides, it is my favourite part of the book.
So much so that travel planning has become a bit of an obsession. I have loved planning all my trips from:
- Road-tripping around Australia
- Solo backpacking around Europe
- Visiting family in Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe and South Africa)
- Backpacking as a couple through Mediterranean Europe
- Cruising down the Nile
- Getaways to Western Australia’s South West
- Joining a tour in Mexico
- Flashpacking through Croatia
- Luxury family holidays to South East Asia (Khao Lak, Bali, Phuket, Kota Kinabalu, Singapore, Pattaya and Bangkok)
- A city stay exploring Melbourne on foot
- Family adventure through mainland Greece and Crete
More travels between 2000-2016