Loch/Lake
It was a long weekend to celebrate an Aussie icon sporting game, Australian Rules Football, but our minds and hearts were set on being...
Blonde on the highway
It was the first warm, sunny day that we had seen for months. Winter had been long, dark and cold (by Australian standards!) but by the...
Bellarine Estate Winery
It wasnt the brightest of days as we set out for lunch at the Bellarine Estate Winery. The grey sky didn't dampen our enthusiasm for the...
Fiji Fresh
The winter had been long, dark and cold and I still had another two months to go before I could reliably think of above 20 degree...
Fairy Dust
This morning as I caught the water taxi from Calle de Treghetto to the Venice Airport, I was thinking this post would be called The Wild...
Call of the Courtesan
Venice does not want me to leave. She has said so in a thousand whispers and shouts. The thrum of the vaporetto engine has demanded 'No,...
Numero Uno
My observations in no particular order; 1. There are pigeons everywhere 2. There are dogs everywhere 3. Sometimes the dogs even take...
It's a wonderful world
The Cannaregio sestiere (or suburb) I have been calling home this past week forms a large crescent shape between the Grand Canal and the...
La Seconda Casa
There are two inescapable features of italian life - food and history, and this weekend in particular, I have experienced both in...
Like sand through an hourglass...
On the flight to Rome I watched a scifi-thriller movie titled Lucy. It describes how if as humans we could access the full capacity of...
