Just a couple of months ago, 2020 seemed full of promise. I’d been telling people it was MY year, as things began to fall into place in different parts of my life: my freelance writing business was growing, I had a whiteboard full of doable plans and ideas (some actually marked as done), and a …
A dozen dusty chickens scuttled ahead of us in the dirt, parting like bobbing, feather-capped waves on the Red Sea, if you believe in that sort of miracle. It was a fitting introduction to San Simon, a local deity we were seeking out in a small Guatemalan market town in the mountains. Looking up at …
Literary dreams do come true! Visiting Nijo Castle in Kyoto was on my must-see list after reading Across the Nightingale Floor (and the rest of the Tales of the Otori series) and it didn’t disappoint.
Lights are draped between palm trees, people are wandering past with giant cushions and we catch the smell of curry drifting in the air. A possum scurries under a chair. The sun hasn’t yet dropped but the sky is a pastel wash of blues, pinks and orange. We’re at the movies in Darwin’s outdoor Deckchair Cinema.
What are the must-see-must-do icons of New York for new visitors? Central Park would be up there, the view from Top of the Rock, the Statue of Liberty – these would have to be on most top 5 lists for NY NY. I’d add shopping (come on, it’s New York!), catching the subway, hailing a …
A three-day weekend in Sydney with a friend, with a pact that it would NOT be a shopping weekend. No boutiques, no shoe shops, no arcades. No, my friends, this was a girls’ weekend in Sydney to relax, to live like a local. You heard me – we were going to Sydney to chill. Here’s how we managed.