Winter suuuckkks. Datelines We completed the adventure of traveling to the end of each train line to have a date this month. The Alamein train dropped us in a suburban neighborhood and we had to walk some distance to get to the main street for our kebab and bakery sweet. It was a nice day.
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Deep into winter, I was eagerly awaiting our trip to Brisbane with the hope that I would see some sunshine and feel some warmth. I was not disappointed. We stayed in a colleague’s extra apartment in the West End. One of the Queensland universities hosted us to entice DH2 to move there so while he
Cartier The NGV’s Cartier exhibit was stunning. I was first in the door at 10am and began in the first room but I was aware that I was going to want to spend a lot of time with the tiaras and take careful pix of them so I decided to make a bee line to
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Thursday, June 25 Upon arriving in Colombo, we were struck by how different Sri Lanka was to India. The airport was not a crush of frantic energy. The people were genuinely friendly, not just to sell us something. Everything was clean. Another tourist commented that Sri Lanka was as if India and Bali had a
Saturday, June 13 Oh, the airplane shenanigans. While sitting in the plane at SBA before take off, SFO instructed us not to leave for an hour so we sat on the tarmac and I just read a book while the fates did what they would. DH2 was already researching alternate flights since our connection was
