Rhythm (or lack thereof)
Travelling long-haul with small children is quite like childbirth. (I contemplated expanding on that analogy for a while, standing in the bathroom typing so as not to wake the baby… Continue Reading
Browsing Category: Travel: Australia
Visitors
I will return to regular observing of the Germans in due time. For now, given it is arschkalt, and the roof tiles of our neighbourhood are powdered with frost – in a… Continue Reading
Swiftly Flow the Days
One of the very few benefits of jet-lag, is being wide awake at the time of day in which your part of the earth wakes up before its people. I don’t… Continue Reading
Life in Kiel, Travel: Australia
Set Change
The sets changed while the lights were down, and the lush, green tropical trees of Singapore were swiftly replaced with the naked, sky clawing trunks of a German winter. It… Continue Reading
Back in Sydney, Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Australia
Lucky Adventures
We’ve well and truly wound up down here in Sydney, the six-week trip tying itself up with a nice little bow. The last two weeks have dissolved into the one… Continue Reading
Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Australia
Kangaroo Heaven
I am about to bombard you with photos of kangaroos. Not kangaroos from the zoo, or taken from afar with a shaky zoom, but kangaroos nuzzling the camera lens, coming… Continue Reading
Back in Sydney, Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Australia, Travel: Germany
Comparing
It’s always dangerous to compare. One’s joy can be thieved by the very act of drawing together two things and attempting to find which one comes out best. But I… Continue Reading
Back in Sydney, Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Australia, Travel: Germany
Coming and Going
It’s a peculiar thing, going home, when you no longer live there. Much like most of the landmarks, your history remains, intact and untouched. So do, give or take one… Continue Reading
Back in Sydney, Melbourne, Travel: Australia, Travel: New Zealand
Islands
Coming to you live from a very small island nation that is extremely good at rugby and claims the pavlova as their own. New Zealand. It’s good to be here…. Continue Reading
Eine Kleine Pause
Liebe readers, Due to not having wifi, I am on an enforced blogging hiatus at the moment. That, and jetlag has only just removed its claws and permitted lucidity to return…. Continue Reading
Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Australia, Travel: Germany
Ask an Australian
As an Australian living in Germany, I am relatively exotic, or at least worthy of intense questioning because my lifestyle and culture perhaps isn’t as known as my fellow English speakers,… Continue Reading
Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Australia
Longing
Just last night, it hit. Suddenly, sneakily, with quite unexpected force. Right up in the sternum, like a sharp punch. I haven’t felt it at all this year. Instead, I have… Continue Reading
Life in Kiel, Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Australia, Travel: Germany
By the Seaside
Despite being raised in different hemispheres, in countries as different as feta and cheddar, SG and I are both beach people. While I grew up splashing around in the Pacific,… Continue Reading
Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Australia
See you soon
Flying out tonight. See you all on the other side.
Back in Sydney, Travel + Life Abroad, Travel: Australia
The Beach House
Last weekend, precious time, snatched from a whirlwind beginning to what promises to be another enormous year, was spent at a beach north of Sydney that may or may not… Continue Reading
Month of Australia: Melbourne in 3 Days
Day 1 A big hotel breakfast. Browsing and buying at the Book Grocer. Some CBD strolling. A spot of shopping. St Paul’s. Federation Square. China Town. Greek Quarter. Cider on… Continue Reading
Making Space & Starchy Fresh Days
The lure of writing something about the fresh, shininess of a new year, proved too strong. I was going to wave it on, insist it skip me, and soak in… Continue Reading
Hunter Valley, Travel: Australia
Month of Australia: The Hunter Valley
Although full of well heeled Sydney-siders who fancy a fine drop and braying ‘we’re just going to the Hunterrrr for the weekend’, the Hunter Valley is a lovely little corner of the… Continue Reading
A Time of Quiet
I love the days after Christmas, when December quietly bleeds into a hot, still January. Things are quiet, time is fluid. It feels like the entire country has turned it… Continue Reading
Daintree Forest//Cape Tribulation, Travel: Australia
Month of Australia: The Daintree National Park & Cape Tribulation
You may recall SG’s distinct expression of his wish to see a crocodile during his time in Australia, buoyed, perhaps, by numerous discussions had with his father about their penchant… Continue Reading