The Lord of the Rings inspired Hobbiton, New Zealand. Imagine a happy place of green rolling hills, colourful doorways and a beautiful big symmetrical party tree with spreading branches. Well, that’s where I came from. Oh, and it’s also the film set for a crucial part of a couple of little known trilogies – Lord [...]
When I booked the Hoxton Hotel for my short stopover in London, I didn’t realise it was such a hipster joint. But even better than that, it’s great value, fun, and in a great location near to Old Street tube. Apparently I turned up during London Fashion Week (not something I have marked in my [...]
During the same lazy days in Luang Prabang one Christmas, I also came to learn that not all young monks were always studying hard, some were just enjoying themselves and being teenagers. looking back at photos of the faces of people I come across in my travels take me right back to that [...]
I know, I know, it’s a very lame pun. But a daily view of Bondi Beach is a marvellous thing to live with. And no matter how hectic life gets, there is rarely a day when I don’t spend at least a few seconds just soaking in the view – and somehow it is different [...]
I had to rewrite this opening sentence three times, as I tried (and failed) to remove the excessive hyperbole that kept coming out of my head and off my keyboard. And then I thought “bugger it, I love MONA, there’s no point trying to pretend I am impartial here”. So instead I am writing an [...]
It’s a bit presumptuous really, I’ve only been blogging for 18 months, and I’m not exactly prolific – but when I saw people blogging under the #My7Links project I thought it was a really interesting idea put out there by @Tripbase and I really wanted to take part. So after some begging, pleading and grovelling on [...]