Category Archives: Travel
Slave To The Slav
The best stories are the ones you couldn’t make up. My husband has a friend who in 2016 quietly embarked on the relationship adventure of a life time. Tired of the single life and frustrated by a lack of success … Continue reading
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Tagged cocaine, cyber dating, guns, relationships, Ukrainian dating site
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Wax on, wax off.
It’s been a while. Not since the last ill-fated winter escape to Fiji, had I professionally denuded the pasty pins. As we hoisted ourselves from the winter couch and crawled back towards the prospective light of sunnier days, I got … Continue reading
Paradise Lost…again.
It’s entirely possible that I’m allergic to paradise. As anyone who has read some of my earlier blogs will attest, I have quite the track record for holiday disasters But fresh from a disconcertingly eventless mini break in Bali last … Continue reading
The Cabin in the woods – part 2
So to recap – My youngest daughter, D2, had returned for a second tenure working at a summer camp in Massachusetts. She had spent the previous American summer there and had fallen in love with the culture, the location and … Continue reading
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Tagged australia, Berkshires, Bo Burnham, facebook, family, humor, Massachusetts, New York, travel, United States
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The cabin in the woods – part one
I booked the majority of our recent trip to the States through a travel agent. The one section I decided to plan on my own was four days between New York and San Francisco. The idea was to find somewhere … Continue reading
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Tagged cabin, family, Grand Designs, humor, Massachusetts, relationships, travel
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The knead to relax.
My relationship with all forms of beauty therapy is fraught at best. In the interest of background research please now refer to last years blog post, ‘The Spa Treatment’, for further insight into the vagaries of salons… and Croatians. For … Continue reading
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Tagged anniversary, australia, busker, Gold Coast, humor, husband, Manicure, massage, Nailpolish, spa, Yarra Valley
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Like a Tiger…
I am at that tiresome point in life where suddenly there is a compulsion to bemoan the dearth of quality made *insert item here * to all and sundry. It is entirely possible that we are chronologically predisposed to yearn … Continue reading
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Tagged Aviation, children, Flight attendant, humor, Jim Beam, Melbourne Airport, travel
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Cruising with George
I ‘m no fan of cruise ships. The Poseidon Adventure, Gilligan’s Island and The Love Boat all seemed to me to be perfectly valid reasons to avoid a floating holiday. Many of the contemporaries of my youth disagreed, however and … Continue reading
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Tagged cruise ships, Europe, George, humour, Life, murano glass beads, travel
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Turning of the stone
Our honeymoon surpassed all my expectations. It was extraordinarily enjoyable and we shared many wonderful experiences. But it’s me we’re talking about – it was never going to be entirely without incident now, was it? You may recall the unfortunate … Continue reading
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Tagged honeymoon, humour, kidney stones, Life, relationships, travel
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The Spa Treatment
I’m a sucker for a day spa. Give me a gift voucher with a spa menu to choose from and I’m one happy lady. I’m getting my Zen on from the moment I enter and some softly spoken, smiley young … Continue reading
Learning The Hard Way 