Lonely Planet called for submissions of travel writing to its annual anthology and Carmen and I had a go at putting together long articles for entry. Unfortunately, we weren’t selected – but it’d be a shame to waste all that work, so here’s my entry, about the Gascoyne River and the WA wilderness. (Carmen’s will […]
Margaret River beaches are some of Australia’s best and a recent trip down south where we sampled a few of them got me thinking about shampoo. Hear me out. Expensive holiday shampoo A few years back a very beautiful hairdresser managed to convince me to buy some expensive shampoo from her store with mint leaves […]
Sometimes you don’t have to travel far and wide to see the wonders of nature. I can see one of Australia’s grandest sights whenever I go into my parents’ backyard… Can you see him? All the way up there? That man in a high-vis jacket is a tree surgeon and he’s scaled the heights of […]
Panic and diving with hammerheads is not a good mix. But luckily I picked up a quirky phrase that saved me from doing anything stupid. “Don’t open your mouth to the devil.” I heard this unusual one up in an unusual place – the Galapagos Islands. It came as a warning from my Israeli-born SCUBA […]
Carmen’s parents have a brilliant botanical garden where we had our wedding ceremony many years ago and where we’ve been spending many long summer evenings these days, drink in hand and eating food for the soul, under the brilliant sun. A great feature of the garden is the abundance of herbs that get clipped and […]
