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 [...]
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Sweden in September
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 [...]
Quirks
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
Melbourne at last!
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 [...]
Introductions to Copenhagen
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 [...]
S’arraco
Beautiful S'arraco. This is a place where dreams and imagination collide as old cobblestones sing under the summer heat and the vines from wine plants spiral up and around old wells opposite a monastery that is hundreds of years old. In this city there was such a wonderful buzz of community life, living and vivacity. [...]
Firenze
This marked the half-way point in my journey around Europe in 2014. Florence was a really wonderful place to feel centred and find a sense of gravity from all that I had so far experienced. To pause and recollect during the train ride here did wonders to the eyes that I saw this city with. [...]
Return to Paris
Cyclic nature of travel. It was really nice to have an anchor to return to before flying home... somewhere that I could call 'stability' in reference to the mind-state I was in on commencing my journey abroad and that which I would leave from. Very strangely, some may say, I was excited to go home. [...]