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...

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...

I admit to not entirely looking forward to this year after Australia's horrendous bushfires in 2019 not to mention the crazy political...

Podcast (Part 1) Author Interview

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...

This has been one of those consolidation years, settling back after last year's wonderful house swapping experience with Elaine in...

Trying Lives: A House Sitter's Tale. This book tells the stories of house sits and swaps across four years and five countries.

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...

To get us right into the winter holiday spirit, we spent an unexpectedly joyful day at the Weald and Downland Living Museum which...

23rd November 2018 Harrogate—A bit like a northern Arundel but with department stores. Lovely Christmas lights and festive shop windows....

Chichester — Nearest to 'home' and so our local shopping town. Cathedral, ancient walls, Roman Museum, buzzing shops—what’s not to love?...

Elaine left a very handy and accurately written booklet called Octagon Walks outlining with eight walks that we’re working through and...

What a change! From precarious mountain roads, thick forests and misty views of the Pyrenees to the hedged country lanes and green/golds...

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...

A recent email from my school friend Jenny (North Sydney Girls) brought a sigh of relief with her recounting of the time she was...

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...

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...

After a few days' driving from Paris to our new exchange home in the Pyrenees Orientale we've started to explore this fascinating area....

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...

One of the unexpected discoveries about living here is the whole Catalonian experience. We should have known or at least investigated...