“It’s a dangerous business, going out your door” Bilbo Baggins said. “You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no telling where you might be swept off.” I love that sentiment that where you end up has a lot to do with chance, and so I sometimes like to add [...]
After a couple of weeks in the Blue Mountains; drinking, barbecuing, walking, swimming, and meeting plenty of new people – I had the urge to go and meet some familiar people again; Friends that had become the most significant aspect of my memories of my first year in Australia, but who I hadn’t seen in [...]
When we decided that we would try and meet up with our Croatian friends Iva and Maja before we left the Northern hemisphere we got in touch with some preliminary dates, and found out that Maja was not going to be in Croatia for a couple of months. She was going to be studying in [...]
Continue reading about Quatro Stagioni – Four Cities in Italy
When I was planning my trip back to Australia, I had anticipated a few weeks or months in Asia to break up the journey. But after meeting our Croatian friends at Roskilde earlier in the year, it seemed like we might have another better option. I still wanted to break up the long flight from [...]
It was with much sadness that I left the wonders, warmth and whimsy of Australia behind me and returned, prematurely I felt, back to the UK. I had made so many friends, seen so many fantastic things, and been to so many exotic places that the previous year had swept past me with the speed and force of a tornado, leaving me a little dazed and dizzy in much the same way.