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Holly Folkard-Smith

Real Places. Honest Opinions. No Filler.

Travel guides, restaurant finds and honest hotel reviews.

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🇦🇺 Australia

Guides, cafés, road trips & what to know before you go

🇫🇷 France

Provence villages, beach clubs, restaurants & hidden finds

🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Coming soon — London, countryside & beyond

Who Is This For

Not a travel blog. Not a brand.

I write the guides I wish I'd had using real experience from my trips (only the places I've actually visited). Like real advice from a friend who went first, not a government website. Australia is where I started my other favourites are still to come!

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The Guides

Downloadable travel guides built from personal experience. Instant PDF delivery. More destinations coming soon.

Moving to Australia

Moving to Australia

Best for first-time travellers

£10
Red Dirt & Blue Water

Red Dirt & Blue Water

South West Australia Road Trip

£15
Salt, Sun & 2,900km
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Salt, Sun & 2,900km

East Coast Short Itinerary

£15
Take the Long Way
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Take the Long Way

East Coast Long Itinerary

£19.99
The Full Set
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The Full Set

Bundle — pick any three

From £45
The Journal

From The Journal

First-hand editorial reviews of restaurants, bars, hotels and destinations — the newest dispatches from the road.

Rows of terracotta fringed parasols and wooden sun loungers on the sand at Pampelonne beach near Saint-Tropez, looking out to the turquoise Mediterranean.
DestinationsFrench Riviera, France

The French Riviera Road Trip: A 10-Day Itinerary from Nice to Saint-Tropez

Ten days along the Côte d'Azur — Nice, Eze, Monaco, Menton, Antibes, Tourtour, Sainte-Maxime and Saint-Tropez. A day-by-day road trip diary with the addresses, drives and long lunches I'd send a friend on.

4 July 2026 · 14 min read
Holly walking toward a sunlit fountain and flower gardens in a grand Provençal town square, with pastel buildings and mountains rising in the distance.
DestinationsCôte d'Azur & Provence, France

The Best Day Trips in the South of France: Antibes, Pampelonne, Tourtour, Saint-Tropez & Nice

Just back from the Côte d'Azur — a personal round-up of the five day trips I'd send anyone on: Antibes and Cap d'Antibes, Pampelonne Beach, Tourtour, Saint-Tropez and Nice.

1 July 2026 · 8 min read
A couple standing on the Trocadéro promenade in winter with the Eiffel Tower and low golden sun behind them.
DestinationsParis, France

48 Hours in Paris: A Real Itinerary for Food, Views & Slow Mornings

Two days, two neighbourhoods, more pastries than is sensible - my honest 48 hour Paris itinerary covering Montmartre mornings, Seine sunsets and the food stops I'd send a friend to.

25 June 2026 · 9 min read
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Things I actually travel with — gear, stays and booking tools I'd buy again.

The stays, tours, gear, and booking tools I genuinely recommend.

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Holly Folkard-Smith
Who's Behind This

I'm Holly.

In 2022, I packed up my life after university, booked a one-way ticket to Sydney, and figured the rest out as I went. I drove 2,900km up the east coast in a campervan, swam at beaches that didn't look real, and made some of the best memories sitting in a hostel kitchen with a group of strangers. Australia was just the start of my travelling obsession and opened the door to the adventures I had next.

Go. Don't overthink it.
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