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dinner at Stefano’s
A hundred years ago when Don and I watched Stefano De Pieri‘s cooking show, ‘Gondola on the Murray’, we had no idea that one day we would have a meal with him as the cook! After all, we grew up halfway around the world in a little Midwest town in the USA, with nothing to indicate…
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traveling on my stomach…again…
For our recent trip to Victor Harbor in South Australia, I booked accommodation online. We have been tremendously lucky with this method, though it could be that our extensive travels over the decades have given us a traveller’s intuition that helps. Our main criteria is accommodation with at least a queen size bed, its own…
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Oh, Fleurieu!
Aaaahhhhh–deep exhale. Here’s me, freshly showered (FYI),mostly recovered from the head cold, and in front of the computer with no urgent tasks to drag me away. Now I can share with you some of the photos from our recent trip to the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. We flew to Adelaide to visit with our…
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four days in Sydney
You will be wondering why I am sharing this post with you now, so I will tell you straight up front. It is precisely now that we need our perspective about Life and what is important. What IS important you ask? Ask your soul, I answer. A week ago, we were in Sydney. Our reason…
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a visit to the country
When we are on a road trip, my lovely husband usually drives. We both know it’s best this way, and he doesn’t mind—yet another reason why our marriage has been a good one! I forage, he drives. It leaves me free to mull. And by mull, I mean let my mind wander and take in…
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Where travel takes us…Pt 2
In my experience, all trips have a certain ‘vibe’ to them, a theme that is distinct from the place to which you travel. Our recent travels took us to the USA for three weeks, back two nights, and then to Tasmania for five days. The latter trip was for my husband to attend a conference…
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Where travel takes us…part 1
People don’t take trips… trips take people -John Steinbeck Travel, like life, holds within it ‘layers’ of experience. There is the mobility itself, the mechanics of getting from place to place. There are the persons with whom you travel. And there is whatever is going on in your head, not to mention the world, at…
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We’re the People – Granada, Spain
This may seem a strange photo to show when talking about ‘people’ as it almost seems devoid of them. However, if you look closely you will see dozens of feet showing at the bottom of the skirt of the “Pasos”, or float, carrying the statue. One of these floats is carried by each brotherhood in…
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We’re the People – Istanbul
Hasan was our tour guide in Turkey. He was a lovely, open man. He was of Syrian and Arab derivation but born just inside the border of Turkey. I can’t imagine a better tour guide. In fact, he told us more than I could possibly process and remember! Here we are in the Blue Mosque and…
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In My Kitchen – August 2014*
*Warning to those on a diet, this post may be hazardous to your mental state! Most of the passed month, I’ve been eating from other people’s kitchens in Budapest, and along the Danube to Istanbul! I’ll be writing about some of that, hopefully not so much you will be bored, but for now I’m back…
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