Week 44/2024: Art and food
Week of 28 October 2024 The last public holiday before Christmas has gone, and we’re into the final two weeks of school for my Year 12 student. There are hints of warmer weather too. If I were a proper gardener, I’d be thinking about tomato plants. Weekend wanderings in...
Canberra & NSW travel blog part 4: Tumut
Day 5 & 6: Tumut & Blowering Dam—and heading home I wrote about my morning in Tumut and our walk on the Adelong sculpture trail in part 3. After we’d finished at the sculpture trail, we drove back to Tumut. Blowering Dam Slabs wanted to continue the nostalgia journey...
Canberra & NSW travel blog part 3: Tumut & Adelong
Day 5: Tumut & Adelong Tumut is a small town in the Snowy Mountains, where Slabs’s family is from. It sits at the northern end of the Snowy Mountains Hydro scheme, alongside the Tumut River. We arrived mid Friday afternoon and picked up some lunch from a takeaway Slabs...
Canberra & NSW travel blog part 2: Canberra to Wagga
Canberra to Wagga Day 4 and 5: Wagga Wagga Our second destination on this week’s trip was Wagga Wagga, which, according to Visit NSW, is the largest island city in NSW, sitting on the Murrumbidgee River. It’s on Wiradjuri country. A sign at the visitor centre tells us that...
Canberra & NSW travel blog part 1
Week of 15 April 2024 The first week of school holidays. This week we travelled to Canberra and New South Wales to celebrate a family member’s 80th birthday. Canberra & NSW travel blog part 1: Canberra Day 1: Arriving in Canberra The first leg of our trip was a...
A weekend retreat: Mount Field National Park
Mount Field National Park Week 24/2023 (part 2): Week of 19 June 2023 When we lived in the Derwent Valley (it seems so long ago now), we used to take the occasional trip to Mount Field National Park. Sometimes for short walks, sometimes to camp overnight. Prior to colonisation,...
Sydney travel blog day 6
Friday 20 January 2023: The final day Art Gallery of NSW It was raining, so a morning photowalk to have another look at some of the houses on Coogee Beach Road wasn’t going to happen. Instead I decided to visit the Art Gallery of NSW, which meant a second...
Sydney travel blog day 5
Thursday 19 January 2023 More Randwick Art Deco It was a gloomy overcast morning after the overnight rain. I decided to go out to find the last building from the Randwick Art Deco walk, the one I’d misidentified yesterday as having been demolished. This was 132 Alison Road, which...
Sydney travel blog day 4
Wednesday 18 January 2023 Too hot to do anything Today, the news reported gleefully, people in Sydney would enjoy their first day of 30 degrees for almost a year. Hooray? The words “enjoy” and “30 degrees” do not belong in the same sentence any more than the word “enjoy”...
Sydney travel blog day 3
Tuesday 17 January 2023 Randwick Art Deco According to the handy Randwick Art Deco Walk brochure from Randwick City Council, in the 1920s-1940s, when Art Deco was particularly popular, there was an “explosion of residential building activity in Randwick and Coogee, catering for the boom in population between the...