May I be one of the last people on earth to wish you a Happy New Year? Yes, I've been on holidays and stayed thoroughly on holidays, with barely a check of my email, and now I'm back at my desk and ready to blog again.My stay in Sydney and the Hunter Valley was fantastic, and over the next week or …
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Merry Christmas, “Not A Ballerina” readers
Yep, that's me with Santa. The real Santa, in Finnish Lapland, not altogether too far from the North Pole. Nice old guy, multilingual too - I heard him speak Finnish, English and Swedish.Unfortunately I'll be celebrating a summertime Christmas again this year, which just isn't the same as a good ol' …
Travelling with your eyes open
Rant warning: I have to get something off my chest. I’m not very tolerant of people who can’t entertain themselves while they’re traveling; of travelers or tourists who just won't look around them and see how much they could learn about or experience. Let me give you two recent examples.Scenario …