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Spain – The Food and Sunshine in Barcelona

Barcelona is one of those rare cities that my wife and I can both agree that we like. It has the old town, interesting lanes and abundance of…

Tokyo – But Not Sightseeing

It’s been a while since my last visit to Tokyo. The bus ride from Narita airport reminded me just how colossal this megalopolis is, with concrete apartment blocks…

Day 175 – Adventures in Sydney #3 – Cabramatta

It was an early start to the day after a night interrupted by the cries of a teething Mia. After another couple of hours playing with the kids…

Day 164 – Eating, Eating, Eating in Melbourne

We haven’t really done the usual tourist things in Melbourne, like visiting the zoo/aquarium, or exploring the lanes with street art around Collins Street, or whatever else it…

Day 163 – Akimi’s Kitchen

We wanted to go to the Queen Victoria Markets today, but for whatever reason, it’s shut on Monday and Wednesday (today is Wednesday), so that kind of ruined…

Day 162 – Yarra Valley

One of our friends from Japan is visiting Melbourne for a few days this week, so we have worked on being here at the same time so we…

Day 157 – Bay of Fires – aka Are We Really In Tasmania?

We were woken at 4:30 this morning from giant drops of rain falling from the trees that we’d parked underneath. This continued for nearly an hour, and I…

Day 152 – Salamanca Markets

Allow me the indulgence to whinge for a paragraph (and no promises, but I will probably whinge more). I feel somewhat cursed that our car seems to always…

Day 146 – Mrs Parmas (and The Spirit of Tasmania)

Due to the start of daylight savings time in Victoria (and most of the other non-backward states – I’m looking at you, WA and QLD) we effectively ‘lost’…

Day 138 – (r)Adelaide

Another glorious view from our bedroom window – this morning was the rolling hills of wheat. We rolled along to the nearest town (Orooroo – which I think…