Year: 2017

This building everyone is the National Carillon. I challenge all of you out there to drop me a line or send me a message if you know what this is. Aussies who live in Canberra excepted. Certainly I had never come across it and so we set off to explore this tall structure which lies…

In Bali you see road signs that tell you about Jams. But you also see adverts for Bad rooms being available and your imagination runs riot. It has been a small but pleasant trip to Bali full of friendship and discovery and what better way to end it then with a good dose of local…

Bali is a treasure trove of creatures. Beautiful butterflies in the Butterfly Sanctuary, bright red dragon flies in the paddy fields, fish gold and silver teeming in the ponds,  the very iridescent green jungle fowl on the lawn, the bigger frog croaking loudly but also this baby one on the side of the enormous outdoor…

It would not be an exaggeration to say that every third building in Bali is a temple or a shrine. The real estate on which they are built must be immense. One day someone might start factoring that in and that will be an interesting time, given the pressures that are already being felt all…

Breakfast is a tranquil affair. I check up on messages, the family, the world and get a little distracted. From my right a punk looking monkey with a mohican is watching. I haven’t spotted him but he has sized me up, looked at my ditsy status and decided I was a goer. While I was…

I look out from our hotel room to the rain forest ravine in front of me, bursting with life. Honking, shrieking, croaking and calling. The cicadas offer the choral backdrop which reach crescendos and then drop away. To the right a mountain not unlike Agung but mercifully not smouldering. The road that leaves the hotel…

I travelled to Bali with hundred of Australians, their tatooes and their children. Passing through passport control the immigration officer asked me “First time in Bali?” “Yes,” I replied sheepishly feeling as if I was very late in coming to this experience.  I arrived at my hotel https://www.alilahotels.com/ubud close to midnight and as I waited for my…

Bright and shiny, loud and clear, This is one time I wish I had the vote To put my mark in the small yes box. Read the arguments of the the nos, They felt faulty, phobic, Frankly disrespectful to blokes and gals, Choosing who to love and how Is a gift for all. Love my…

In May of 2016 when I was in Athens I noticed the many stray dogs that roamed around Syntagma square. Some of these were much loved pets that the owners could no longer afford to feed or keep. Maybe others were less fortunate and had been abandoned by them when they realised that having a…

Some of you may have realised that I love the colours of nature and all that it offers at different times of the year. The other day I went to a neighbourhood in Brisbane, called Bulimba to meet a dear friend for lunch and as I was walking down to the ferry my eye caught…