I completely fell in love with Copenhagen when visiting last year in July. There was something about it that just felt like home and this pull to a place and its culture was something I have not experienced before. In August I moved to Copenhagen to study music and ever since arriving each day has [...]
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 [...]
A short and eclectic collection of places around Sydney that make me happy or simply sketch out the city in some way... Sydney: Summer-Winter 2017
There is something sporadic and a little witty about the Australian coastline. It's as though it slaps you in the face at times and says, hey! Before continuing onto meander away. The air is crisp, the salt heavy and the sound like no other. There is something ancient and steadfast about the land in Australia and [...]
Sometimes it's hard to appreciate your own city. This is a trap I often fall into, fantasising about how lovely a recent travel was, about how nice things are overseas, the culture, nature, people... then I remember that all of this exists at home just as much as it does overseas. Our eyes become used [...]
In 2016 I completely fell in love with this city - it sings a hum and rhythm that is like hundreds of tiny villages combined. The food is wonderful, the people are friendly and the nature is stunning. Last year, my friend and I had dreamed up an idea and in March 2017 I flew [...]
Hum of the dragonflies - I can see where Ross Edwards finds some of his inspiration! Splendid and peaceful and... hot. Adelaide is unbelievably warm - and the heat incredibly dry. It burns down from the desert before sweeping through the city, rustling the leaves in the beautiful botanical gardens and bouncing off of old [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes when reflecting on travels I am reminded of the strangest moments and equally the kindness of the strangers. When I was first travelling solo in 2014, the train I was taking from Bologna to Munich was delayed after a tree had fallen over the tracks. Because it was a Sunday (never travel on a [...]
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