For a gal didn't know the first thing about soccer - aka football - while growing up in a country where football meant something totally different (non-Aussies, check out Wikipedia's explanation of AFL), I've really become a big fan of at least the every-four-years excitement of the FIFA World …
Germany
My own fall-of-the-Berlin-Wall anniversary
I wasn't in Berlin for the fall of the wall twenty years ago this month. You wouldn't expect a young Aussie girl to be there, of course. But incredibly, I was there almost a year later on October 3rd, 1990, when west and east were reunited.With all the media attention this significant anniversary is …
City tips: Berlin could be my favourite European city
A friend of mine asked me this week for some tips for his week-long trip to Berlin, and when I'd got halfway through writing the email I realised just how much I love Berlin and thought I'd share my must-sees with everyone. I first visited Berlin as a 14-year-old on a school exchange trip, …