Australia

Although it was supposed to be spring, the weather did not agree. The cold, gray, wind, and rain wore me down into a fine depression. An upside was that there were a couple days that weren’t face-biting cold and I did go out once without a jacket. Townhall Side Quests Northcote Town Hall – City

The longest I’ve stayed in Sydney was my 2 week quarantine in 2021, but I didn’t get to experience any of the city at that time. In the subsequent 5.5 years, we’ve visited for 2-3 days at the most since we were usually on our way somewhere else. With DH2 having 2 back-to-back conferences in

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.

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