Mandy Nolan talking with Bernard Fanning and Tim Rogers
I’ve been to many, many Byron Writers Festivals, but this Sunday will be the first festival where I will actually manage to…
As the adage goes “ time flies when you're having fun (busy)” , and it’s hard to believe that its been ten months since our last blog from Hong Kong.…
Another week and here we are sitting in our beautifully cool Hong Kong hotel after just experiencing the most surreal few days getting here. Our last week in England was spent…
Champagne cocktails in Harrods
Its been a few weeks since I last left off and we have spent them exploring South East England and London. Some notable highlights include walking through…
Port Wenn
Prior to departing Australia we were often asked "what do you want to see in England"? Our standard reply was always "visit Port Wenn (Isaac)- you know, where Doc…
Dibley aka Turville
Whilst heading towards daughter Paige's 18th century pub the other day I made the comment "I wonder where the Vicar of Dibley was made'? Typical of this country,…
Ghent -still relatively quiet on the tourism front
I must admit that arriving in Brussels Belgium four days after another terrorist attack - this time at a main train station here…
Magnificent canals
In our early twenties Amsterdam - renown for its cafes where one could smoke marijuana, party all night and ogle sex workers sitting in shop fronts advertising their wares…
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
We have always been conscious of Berlin - its celebrity up there with London, Paris or New York. Because of this I think we…
Its nearing the stage where we constantly need to keep asking where are we? What day is it? Four months of constant travel can obviously result in total disorientation. Well…
View from castle at dinner time
Austria - what an unforeseen surprise and what a beautiful country to navigate by train. Stunning scenery, friendly people and easy travelling. The rail journey…
We have just arrived in Italy and no kidding both my handbag and shoes have just broken. Handbag yesterday. Shoes today. Obviously some retail therapy god is looking over me…
Oh Bordeaux! An edifying two night visit to the city of wine and we have come away not only more knowledgeable about this nectar but so very impressed with this…
I think we have stumbled into castle wonderland and no - that's not the rosé talking. Last week we caught the super fast TGV from Paris to Bordeaux. It took…
We have been in Paris for 5 days now and our ears have become immune to the constant wail of sirens. As I type - Frances' new president - Emmanuel…