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
Tag: Transit
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. [...]
Going solo: the first days of travel
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 [...]
Finding-Hygge 