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Moving to Australia-Darwin Poison
I am writing this in Darwin, where it all began for me — my life in Australia, that is. Thirty years ago Darwin was as close to frontier living as I was game for. It had some considerable challenges for this thirty year old Ohio transplant. When I first came here, at the end of…
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‘Plan B’
Two years ago when we were in Paris we had the good fortune to discover the Musee d’Orsay closed. What’s that I say? In fact it was to have reopened that very day, after recent renovations, had it not been for an industrial dispute that kept it closed. Of course, initially, we (especially I) were…
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Traveling on my stomach
I am a woman who thinks about lunch while still eating breakfast. I regularly photograph my food and frequently the plates of those eating beside me. I’ve written a bit about food in early blogs (see Passing Great Grandma’s Baton) but decided I didn’t want to write a food blog, as such. However, I need…
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What I See From My Back Doorstep
I’m new to reading this blogger but she has inspired me to participate in a ‘back door’ challenge. Cecilia @ thekitchensgarden has asked her fellowship of bloggers to photograph what lies outside their back door and post it onto our blogs so that we can share what it is we see just outside our back…
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Home Again
We have been travelling. As usual it was inspiring, frustrating, exhausting, exhilarating, bewildering and enlightening. I will probably write more about it as I have time to process all the experiences, but for now, I will start at the end. The end of every trip is also a beginning. You arrive home again a slightly…
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More Truth About Travel
At some point during my cancer saga I remember likening the experience to travel. Some trips are better than others, and all of them hold unexpected surprises, not all good ones, either. Sure enough my observations have proven themselves once again. Highlights of the trip were many. Among them • Shopping at Tiffany’s in LA…
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The Truth About Travel
A few weeks from now if you ask how our trip was I will probably do a nano-second review of the overall experience and give you a simple response that it was ‘great’ or ‘good’ or ‘interesting’. The truth is somewhat more complex. Travel is hard work at the best of times but it is…
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Lemonade
In the category of ‘making lemonade from lemons’ we decided to use our 6 hour flight delay from Melbourne to our advantage today. The Tutankhamun exhibition was on in the city and we thought if we caught a taxi we’d have a good amount of time to spend with it, get back to the hotel,…
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Saturday
This new room is crawling with ants. Lots and lots of ants. They are the tiniest little ‘sugar ants’ but annoying all the same. They are in my bed, and twice last night woke me when I felt something biting me. This morning I looked in the glass of water here on the bedside table…
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Just another day in Paradise
My very first blog post… ever. Short but sweet! A beautiful morning in the tropics started off at the Parap Markets… freshly made latte, fresh red papaya, laksa and topped off with beautiful Thai sweets… perfection!
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