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 [...]
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 [...]
Wow. It's strange how normal it feels to wake up on the day of travel. Bag packed by the door, clothes for the plane laid out and the last meal of fresh food (aka. many mangos!) for the next 24 hours pre-planned and ready to eat. I think I have always been a traveller. Since [...]
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