Farewell to Hanoi – 3 years on
Today marks 3 years since we left Hanoi at the end of our 3.5 year posting. We have been back in Australia for almost as long as we were there….
Tag: travel
Leaving on a jet plane – an exchange year begins
25 years ago yesterday I started my first overseas adventure without my parents. I flew out of Sydney with a group of other Rotary exchange students, bound first for Melbourne (where we would pick up another…
I’m back…where to start?
I cannot believe I haven’t written since last year. That said, I’m not sure where the first two-thirds of this year disappeared. Writing a blog post about all that has…
Writing away my writer’s block
I’m suffering a bad case of blogger’s block. I’m in a rut. I can’t even think about what to write about, let alone what to actually write. I’m not even…
Retail therapy in Hanoi
Edited: 18 September 2017 to update some detail for some of my favourite places Study deadlines of course bring on the urge to bake, clean and shop but rather than…
Finding my running groove again
Yesterday I ran in my first big fun run in Australia. The annual City to Bay sees about 35,000 people run from Adelaide to Glenelg. There are options to run…
Dreaming of a beach break in Hoi An
After a beautiful weekend, it’s a wet, cold and windy day in the Barossa so I can’t help but start thinking of the beach. So I thought it was a…