<![CDATA[Twenty tabs open with Robyn Law: Travel Tales]]>https://www.robynjlaw.com/s/travel-taleshttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8LI4!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ddc2058-6d8c-46ef-82de-86a72f987ea4_534x534.pngTwenty tabs open with Robyn Law: Travel Taleshttps://www.robynjlaw.com/s/travel-talesSubstackWed, 08 Apr 2026 02:55:11 GMT<![CDATA[The Guilt of Putting Yourself First]]>https://www.robynjlaw.com/p/the-punch-in-the-facehttps://www.robynjlaw.com/p/the-punch-in-the-faceTue, 02 Sep 2025 20:00:59 GMT"Where are my school uniforms? Why haven't you done this? Why haven't you done that?"

This morning, I awoke to the familiar demands of family life after spending a blissful weekend away with one of my oldest friends. (She wants me to tell you she’s not 100; we’re the same age, ha, but we’ve known each other a long time.)

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]]><![CDATA[Four Years Later]]>https://www.robynjlaw.com/p/four-years-laterhttps://www.robynjlaw.com/p/four-years-laterSun, 20 Jul 2025 23:50:31 GMTWell, hey there! I took a week's break from posting because school holidays and interstate guests have been keeping me busy. Although I have a stack of drafts ready to go, I just felt we both needed a week off <3

Yesterday marked four years since we were released from mandatory hotel quarantine in July 2021 in Brisbane, Australia.

After over 16 years abroad, our hand was forced, and we made the decision to permanently relocate back to our country of origin, Australia.

Well, hasn't it been a whirlwind.

Although we had been pondering our return home for some time before making the decision, citing high school opportunities, greater prospects for our kids, and a desire to be around family, we hadn't secured a timeline that suited us. Then the pandemic forced our family apart.

Saudi Arabia, where my husband worked, took a very serious approach and locked their citizens and residents in and out with no excuses. I was stuck on the other side of the border with the kids, virtual homeschooling with no end in sight.

Almost a year to the day that we were forcibly separated, we made the trek home to Australia with no jobs or concrete plans. And it wasn't straightforward departing either.

With Australia drastically decreasing their caps into the country, we were stuck at our departure airport, being told by the airport manager that it was looking unlikely we'd be able to leave. We'd sold up, moved out of our home, quit jobs, and had nowhere else to go. This was almost vomit-inducing.

Our story wasn't unique. Many Australians and people from other nationalities faced significant uncertainty during this time, and many of us are still paying the economic and well-being costs, to name just two consequences.

So, how is it, four years on?

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]]><![CDATA[What’s So Great About Bali?]]>https://www.robynjlaw.com/p/whats-so-great-about-balihttps://www.robynjlaw.com/p/whats-so-great-about-baliSun, 04 May 2025 22:00:54 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[Before Smartphones and Swiping Right: My Flight Crew House in Hounslow]]>https://www.robynjlaw.com/p/before-smartphones-and-swiping-righthttps://www.robynjlaw.com/p/before-smartphones-and-swiping-rightSun, 27 Apr 2025 22:00:26 GMT

If you’re here for the peri/menopause content, that will be hitting your inbox on Wednesday.

But for now, I’m sharing some more retro Travel Tales as I’m enjoying the writing, and it seems to be resonating with you also.

You can’t box me in 😉

We’re still in Bali; we were supposed to leave here last week, but life had other plans. Maybe I’ll share that

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