It is so strange how quickly we can adjust to a new sense of home. The desire to 'get out there and do things' slips away from a state of travel-pressurised urgency to simple daily living and 'am I too busy...?' level thinking. Copenhagen does spring well, and I mean really well. We go from [...]
I understand why the shoes come off inside now. An armour is just the beginning of what you need to survive the ongoing oppression of a bad winter in Copenhagen. The rain is enough to drive you indoors and the gloom of day turning over to night in the blink of an eye leaves little [...]
We flew to Paris to see a ballet, little did we know what an adventure these few days would be! Le Sacre du printemps (the Rite of Spring) is a legendary work in the world of music and ballet. It was composed by Igor Stravinsky with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky for the 1913 season of [...]
I had a complicated introduction to this city when I first set foot here a little over a year ago. This was right as the vote for Brexit was happening and it was a really tense time to be in London. I was also here as a tourist, and this time I had come very [...]
It's funny when you meet friends out of context. For all of my travels to Europe I have met people who have some element of the past in common. It is always strange to see them living in Europe and it also gives me a great deal of hope that if it makes sense to [...]
In September I spent a wonderful weekend away to visit friends at their home in Stockholm. My experience of Sweden so far has been only Stockholm and what a beautiful city this is! I felt so welcomed into a new culture and even under the September clouds it was so nice to walk around outside [...]
I find the hardest part about travel is returning home – sinking back into the routine of normality and stasis. It is easy to be swept away into states of longing and begin to dwell on cravings that are impossible to satisfy in the here and now… cravings that would require some kind of sporadic [...]
Melbourne is such a wonderful city! It's taken a while for me to travel here and it took an orchestral conducting school to make it happen, but my goodness I really love this culture, the city and the people. So often it is easy to forget about the home when we are travelling. Dreaming of [...]
It started on a plane from London to Mallorca while talking to a couple of Danish tennis players. I remember strongly believing that Danish was an odd language and that the people who spoke it were friendly and good humoured. It was close to a month later that I would first set foot in Denmark [...]
I arrived during Fiesta - which was quite honestly the most amazing way to walk into a new city. Spain was completely new to me and now I was being introduced to it through a whole village alive with music, beautiful food and friendly people. What a dream! This was to begin my short summer [...]
Finding-Hygge 