Australia

Melbourne 2026 August

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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Brisbane

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

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Melbourne 2026 July

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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Melbourne 2026 March

When we returned from North Africa, DH2 asked what I wanted us to do during the one month we’d be in Melbourne before returning to California. I had wanted to go to Werribee for our dateline last December or January but my toe was too fractured to do a trip like that but after physio

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Melbourne 2026 January

The month was punctuated with physio exercises and a graduation out of the moon-boot. With a new diagnosis of osteopenia, the list of required exercises grew to include more weight bearing and balance exercises. In my walking group, I would meet them at the beginning of the walk and then if I knew their ending

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