This year Blue Monday - the most depressing day of the year - fell in the same week as Australia Day, the combination of which has caused me to wonder whether i...
No dinner party attended by Aussies in London would be complete without a discussion of the baffling Ugg boot phenomenon. In Australia these sheepskin boots are...
Christmas in London was magical. It was dark by four, but this just gave you more time to admire the Christmas lights, and the best vantage point for this was t...
The easiest way to get into trouble in London is to break the escalator rule. We were warned by friends and family before moving to London about the escalator r...
When we arrived in London, my knowledge of the countries making up the United Kingdom was derived from the elastics rhyme ‘England, Ireland Scotland, Wales, ins...
On our way back to Rome we stopped for a coffee in Siena. We sat in the Piazza del Campo, and tried to imagine it filled with crowds and horses during the Palio...
I was excited to finally arrive in Venice, the floating city, home of the gondola. Nato was also excited to arrive in Venice as he knew it meant an end to my da...
We were not sure what to expect from Assisi, as all we knew was that it was the home of St Francis of Assisi (the clue is in the name). St Francis is the patron...
We drove from Venice to Florence stopping for lunch at 'Autogrill', a chain of service stations/diners. The Autogrill had surprisingly well stocked supermarket ...
