I had a feeling as we were flying to Lisbon that I would love this place! Coming into land across the bright blue water, big sky and the bright white buildings with red rooves I was certainly getting a positive impression. Through the modern and busy airport and then onto our hotel, just behind Lisbon’s […]
In the couple of weeks before we head to Europe I needed to conduct some further research interviews. It provided an opportunity to head to Melbourne and then to a couple of wine regions in Victoria. We decided to fly and hire a car this time. This meant forgoing a stop in Nhill to see […]
As we start to plan our next trip I found myself immersed in travel books and searching the web for inspiration. I love travel books, travel programs and just surfing the web about travel. I am watching Michael Portello’s train journeys at the moment. Even Escape to The Country and Escape to the Continent have […]
The Christmas New Year period provides a time for relaxing and resetting. Work, or in my case my PhD, is the last thing on people’s minds and it’s usually hot! It’s a time to go to the beach and we were very lucky this year to be invited by our daughter, her partner and our […]
In my previous post, I looked at the Top 15 of my Spotify Top Songs of 2018. In this post rather than going numerically through the remaining 85 I have picked out a selection. I thought I would top and tail this post with extremes. In my Top 20 is, what my daughter refers to […]