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
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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
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
Back in Sydney, Travel: Australia
Month of Australia: A Little Bit of Sydney
She is a bit of a show off, my city. She is good looking and she knows it, indeed rests a little too much on those laurels. Less naturally attractive… Continue Reading
Back in Sydney, Travel: Australia
Month of Australia: Koalas & Wombats & Wallabies, Oh My!
Not far from my home lies something of a Sydney institution, if only because it has been going for so long most of those who went to school in Sydney… Continue Reading
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Great Southern Land
This country of mine is around 7,617,930 square kilometres. It can fit nearly ten Germanies and almost 59 Englands. It is the sixth largest country in the world, by land mass,… Continue Reading
Back in Sydney, Travel + Life Abroad
The 4 Stages of Waiting
There are, it would seem, distinct phases when it comes to playing the often tedious game of waiting. I have counted four and only one of them is pleasant. As… Continue Reading
The First Mango
Like Christmas beetles and cicadas, the smell of bushfire smoke and sunscreen, a big, ripe, sunset-coloured mango is one of the stalwarts of an Australian summer. And if you can… Continue Reading
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Beneath the Australian Sky
Two wonderful things happened this week, or, better put, two wonderful people happened this week. On Tuesday I sat by the beach in Manly, eating grilled fish and salad that… Continue Reading
Flower Picking
I don’t have a garden in Germany. When Spring arrived this year, I spent a lot of time sitting in parks, listening to the bees and trying to discretely smell… Continue Reading
My Little Cart
It is hot, sticky, changeable weather. Summer is impatient and tantrum-y, wanting to move in and hunker down for the next few months. It is 45 days until Christmas, my… Continue Reading
To Teach & Be Taught
I currently teach a class of Brazilians. They are funny, smart, passionate and energetic. They tell me things they notice about my own country and culture that I have never… Continue Reading
A Walk Before Work
I got to work early yesterday. It was hot, I wanted to take pictures and I needed to decrompress a little. And there is no better place to decompress than… Continue Reading
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37 Days
As much as I am trying, really trying, not to get too far ahead of myself, not to let increments of time pass by unnoticed, unobserved, there is a countdown… Continue Reading
Back in Sydney, Travel + Life Abroad
The Way to a Country’s Soul …
I don’t tend to watch travel programs, quite like I don’t tend to read travel blogs. For some bizarre reason, consuming anything that falls into the very genre I tend… Continue Reading
Back in Sydney, Travel + Life Abroad
Convalescing
One of the items on my ‘Things to do When I’m Home’ list, along with ‘cut hair’ and ‘find job’ was ‘get teeth out’. A few days before I left… Continue Reading
Back in Sydney, Travel + Life Abroad
Hello, Goodbye
With news of returning lust for overseas life, the knowledge that the remaining few months here will contain SG and all of our travel plans, Christmas, NYE, a dear friend’s wedding, the… Continue Reading
Back in Sydney, Travel + Life Abroad
Getting my Lust Back
Living in a foreign country makes you tired. There are things to think about that you take for granted in your native land. Things like visas and special rules that… Continue Reading