A two hour flight takes all day, of course, or at least well into the evening. Within thirty minutes of landing in Italy, I know two things. At the airport (!) an espresso costs €1.10. Also, these people have completely recovered from fascism - our train was late. Well, cancelled, more accurately, so we got [...]
Plans to take the boys to the Tibidabo fun park come immediately undone as the damn place doesn't open until tomorrow. After some googling for alternatives, I am set free to wander the streets of Barcelona without either of Messrs Let or Hindrance, nor wife neither. My day off. I stopped to open the hotel [...]
Seeing the city you're visiting had to be better than hurtling through a black tube, right? Right, so let's make the kids walk a couple of kilometres first thing. Ooh look, Gaudí. Queue to see inside though, so nah. Repeat. Audio: Calle de la Libretaria, Barcelona In the meantime, we discover things. Every [...]
After chasing us all night, the sun finally caught up with us as we descended into Dubai, where I had cleverly left us about nine hours to pop in to the city and get my first ever look at a Gulf state. Starting before dawn, during Ramadan. There will have been less successful military campaigns [...]
It's a long journey, from Willunga to Adelaide Airport, by public transport and mother-in-law. The 10pm flight started at 4.30pm, at bus stop 99, Aldinga Road. As good a place as any to shoot for the moon. Bus then train. I watched Seb, who is certain of his own indestructibility, pick out some music on [...]
Want to know what to keep an eye out for as the presidential election unfolds? Got your back. The US presidential election is one of the two great quadrennial spectator spectaculars - right up there with the You Know Perfectly Well Which World Cup I Mean and waaaay ahead of that biotech conference with the [...]
Willunga Waldorf School, Jay Drive, Willunga, on April 9th, is your chance to grab a second hand clothing bargain. And I genuinely mean bargain, because some of the clothes on offer are a bit special. We've been gathering clothes from people for a couple of weeks now, and some great stuff has been coming in [...]
