School Gaze: A Teacher's Tale
School Gaze takes readers on a round-the-world school trip spanning six decades. Each chapter is a snapshot of life from the ‘50s to the...
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Carol Duval
- Mar 14
- 2 min
2021 Year of Lockdowns
COVID-19 has been the defining feature of the year but so has gratitude. Never have we been so grateful for science and vaccines, to live...
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Carol Duval
- Dec 15, 2020
- 3 min
Farewell 2020, Welcome 2021
I admit to not entirely looking forward to this year after Australia's horrendous bushfires in 2019 not to mention the crazy political...
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Carol Duval
- May 16, 2020
- 1 min
Birds of a Feather Press
Podcast (Part 1) Author Interview
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Carol Duval
- Jan 17, 2020
- 1 min
School Gaze Survey
I thought it would be interesting to devote the final section to sharing the thoughts of people who’ve been with me on this journey over...
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Carol Duval
- Dec 7, 2019
- 4 min
Season's Greetings 2019
This has been one of those consolidation years, settling back after last year's wonderful house swapping experience with Elaine in...
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Carol Duval
- May 10, 2019
- 2 min
Trying Lives: A House Sitter's Tale
Trying Lives: A House Sitter's Tale.
This book tells the stories of house sits and swaps across four years and five countries.
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Carol Duval
- Apr 23, 2019
- 1 min
Celebrating Sydney
We're lucky to live so close to Sydney's beautiful harbour. Down the road at Balls Head, we have the Coal Loader, now reinvented as a...
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Carol Duval
- Dec 30, 2018
- 2 min
Christmas Cheer
To get us right into the winter holiday spirit, we spent an unexpectedly joyful day at the Weald and Downland Living Museum which...
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Carol Duval
- Dec 1, 2018
- 1 min
Yorkshire - Leeds and Harrogate
23rd November 2018 Harrogate—A bit like a northern Arundel but with department stores. Lovely Christmas lights and festive shop windows....
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Carol Duval
- Nov 28, 2018
- 3 min
Cities, Towns and Villages of the South Downs
Chichester — Nearest to 'home' and so our local shopping town. Cathedral, ancient walls, Roman Museum, buzzing shops—what’s not to love?...
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Carol Duval
- Nov 1, 2018
- 2 min
Walking the Downs
Elaine left a very handy and accurately written booklet called Octagon Walks outlining with eight walks that we’re working through and...
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Carol Duval
- Oct 31, 2018
- 3 min
Falling for the South Downs
What a change! From precarious mountain roads, thick forests and misty views of the Pyrenees to the hedged country lanes and green/golds...
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Carol Duval
- Oct 16, 2018
- 4 min
Farewell to France—With a Couple of Friends
After nearly seven weeks in La Forge del Mitg, friends Avis and Peter Gunn shared our final few days and gave us a chance to revisit some...
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Carol Duval
- Oct 4, 2018
- 3 min
Coping with Catalonia
A recent email from my school friend Jenny (North Sydney Girls) brought a sigh of relief with her recounting of the time she was...
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Carol Duval
- Sep 30, 2018
- 3 min
Girona and the Catalunya Hinterland
Elaine had told us that if we were beginning to get cabin fever in La Forge del Mitg we should spend a couple of days in Girona—Spain’s...
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Carol Duval
- Sep 21, 2018
- 2 min
Back to the Costa Brava
It has certainly been a few years from when we took a few days out from travelling on our Eurail passes around Europe. The beaches are...
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Carol Duval
- Sep 13, 2018
- 1 min
Céret and Picasso
After a few days' driving from Paris to our new exchange home in the Pyrenees Orientale we've started to explore this fascinating area....
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Carol Duval
- Sep 11, 2018
- 1 min
Figueres and Dalí
More art and more crowds but at least more bearable than in Barcelona—that is, the Dalí Museum and Theatre in Figueres. We spent nearly...
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Carol Duval
- Sep 8, 2018
- 2 min
The Spirit of Catalonia
One of the unexpected discoveries about living here is the whole Catalonian experience. We should have known or at least investigated...
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