Beach No 51: Milk (Sunday 11 February 2018)
Elizabeth Since 2010 I’ve been visiting Sydney’s beaches in alphabetical order. I’ve reached number 51: Milk. As I hop on my bicycle to ride to Milk Beach at 9:30 am I’m…
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She Brought Me Vegemite!
I was last in Chicago three years ago with my then-husband. We then found bicycles in the crawlspace under my parents’ house. We dusted them off, filled the tyres with…
BERLIN! And a flight to Ireland (30 September to 2 October 2015)
We rejoin our story on day 129 of my mid-life gap year. Wednesday 30 September 2015 I wake in Berlin to diffuse autumn sunshine and breakfast in the sparse kitchen…
Riding My Bicycle in France: Days with Fallen Australian Soldiers
I am slowly transcribing the long-hand diary entries from my midlife gap year and turning them into blog posts. On my 108th day of travel I awake in Amiens to…
Pedaling with Ghosts in the Normandy Rain: Isigny-sur-Mer to Bayeux
Thursday 27 August 2015 (Day 95 of my midlife gap-year) 9:15 am, Camping Le Fanal, Isigny-sur-Mer, France: Rain Rain Go Away I slept until 9 and it’s raining again. At…
Heading North to Stroke City: Wednesday 12 August 2015 (Day 80)
3:50 pm – Train to Derry Jim asked about my quest – if I had one, which I mostly don’t. That is what leaves me often asking: “What am I…
Coffees and Jews in Dublin: Wednesday 5 August 2015 (Day 73)
11:50 am Wednesday 5 August – Kaph A lot – Dublin reminds me of Melbourne a lot. Maybe because they are both river cities with dubious weather. But they have…
Paris Kinda Smells of Piss: 4-7 July 2015, Dijon to Paris
Saturday 4 July – 10:20 pm, Paris – Carson’s Place It’s still light out and hot but a breeze has come on. I got up early to walk around Dijon…
Visiting the Missing – The Merano Jewish Museum & Synagogue (Day 25 – 18 June 2015)
Thursday 18 June My tourist map shows a Jewish Museum. One of my goals for this trip is to explore my Jewishness and look our European history more squarely in…
Finding Inspiration at the Art Gallery of NSW
I spent part of New Years Day at the Art Gallery of NSW having a wander through the exhibits. The text accompanying Tony Albert’s Hey Ya! (Shake it Like a…