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11 Years Blogging & 11 Things to Celebrate
Friends, I’ll be honest. I’m tired after a couple of 12-and-13 hour days of writing in a row. I was going to give myself the morning off before rolling up my sleeves and getting back to work but I...
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The ‘Best of 2017’ Digest
It’s customary for these sorts of posts to come out in December, before the holidays and our emails (and brains) are switched to ‘out of office’ mode. This is understandable – giving yourself a pat on...
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Thoughts Upon Changing Life Goals
You might be familiar with those live atmospheric maps flashed up on our television screens at the weather part of the news, or to illustrate an impending, potentially devastating, event. I think of...
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A (Belated) Best of 2018 Digest
Part of me wonders at the use of writing this post midway through the first month of a new year (I have a little voice singing the line ‘The past is in the paaaaaast!’ from ‘Let it go’ as I type). But...
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A Family Travel Guide to Port Arthur
Port Arthur is a fascinating place to visit, full of history and surrounded by beautiful, almost brutal, landscapes. Its popularity is deserved, but there are a few tips below that will help families...
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A Family Travel Guide to Hobart and Richmond
If you’d like to read Part One of this series, beginning with a trip to Port Arthur, you can find it here. I hadn’t been to Hobart since 1987. I don’t remember much – I was only eight years old at the...
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A Family Travel Guide to Wineglass Bay, Tasmania
This is the third and last in my series on our trip to Tasmania – you can read about our visit to Port Arthur here and about what we did in Hobart and Richmond here. 1. Where to stay and eat? Swansea...
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6 Family Travel Tips to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The flight from Melbourne to Ho Chi Minh is a survivable near eight hours in length. I use the word survivable deliberately, as a person who dislikes being on a plane full-stop and really begins to...
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5 Family Travel Tips to Hoi An, Vietnam
You can read Part 1 (Ho Chi Minh) of our travels to Vietnam here. Hoi An was planned as being the dedicated ‘rest’ part of our trip and I admit I anticipated this part the most. The beach! Cocktails by...
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A Food Tour of Vietnam
Beef stew in Ho Chi Minh City Normally I write a travel post full of written content and the quick video I pop together is there to supplement the material, not making much of a difference if you...
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The Best of 2019 – A Retrospect
Hoi An Another year (almost) over, can you believe it? Nope, me either. Which means, among other things, it’s time for my annual ‘year that was’ recap – full of the good, bad and in-between. Let’s get...
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Living List Tick – Spend a Week on a Tropical Island
Adam had his 40th birthday earlier this year. Despite my best efforts to convince him otherwise, he was positive he didn’t want any fuss or party to document the occasion. What he did want – and I...
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