Well we’ve been back in Australia for just over a month now, hearing two of my most disliked phrases “back to reality” and “looked like the trip of a lifetime” over and over again. For me, travelling is a natural part of our lives, not a “ONCE in a lifetime” experience. And what IS reality?…
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“My house in…”
“…Budapest. My hidden treasure chest.” I wonder if George Ezra knew his song would be a smash when he wrote it on a back packing tour of Europe in 2013. The ironic thing was that he never even made it to Budapest after getting drunk at a Eurovision after party and missing a train from…
Countries, currencies, castle, deer.
In what was perhaps the most emotionally charged day of our trip, we travelled through 5 countries, fumbled through a purse filled with 3 different currencies, visited what may well be the final castle of our trip, and hit a deer on a foggy pot-holed road. We woke up in Croatia, had a goodbye coffee…
The Slovenian Robin Hood
In Australia it takes 41 hours to drive from one side of the country to the other. So it was a strange novelty for us to be able to pop into Slovenia on our drive from Italy to Croatia. Once again, Slovenia didn’t fail to impress. This country just nails it every time. Predjama Castle…
La Serenissima
I’ve already written about the way I feel about Venice from our last trip to La Serenissima (the most serene Venezia) in 2013. I’ve always trained in from Treviso in the past, but this time with New Year’s Eve and Cam’s 40th birthday set to fall across our Venice days, it seemed like a great…
Lake Bled
First up, a quick mention of the gorgeous place we’ve been staying at in Sticna (where conveniently or inconveniently every street in the town is also called “Sticna”.) Branka has been our host at Hisa Ida, and her property includes a bar, a few beautiful apartments (toasty warm inside even on -6 degree nights), and…
City of Dragons
Full disclosure. Before planning this trip, the only thing I knew about Slovenia was this… The young Slovenian couple that made us all feel a little uncomfortable watching Eurovision (our annual viewing highlight) last year. But as we poured over the map of Europe, pinpointing all of the places we definitely wanted to go and…
“Can I please have your autograph?”
Are autograph books still a thing? My precious book in the 80’s and 90’s had gelati-coloured pages with gold edges, and I was so excited to have a bunch of car drivers’ signatures (Keke Rosberg, Niki Lauda) gathered by my dad, and then the scribbles of celebs I’d met in my early days of radio…
Arigato gozaimaaaaaaa……
…aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas! That’s how you say thank you like a local in Tokyo. Make sure you drag that final vowel sound right out until you need to catch another breath! As we sit here on our first Shinkansen fast train trip, hurtling through Japan’s many towns at 270 kph en route to Kyoto, I thought it’d…
Totoro, Totoro!
If the films “My Neighbour Totoro”, “Kiki’s Delivery Service” or “Howl’s Moving Castle” mean nothing to you, you probably won’t be interested in our day at the Ghibli Museum, Tokyo. Studio Ghibli, and its brainchild Hayao Miyazki, has produced some of the highest grossing films in Japan, all animated, and their 2001 film “Spirited Away”…
The Token Traveller 