What a great sister I must have – and perhaps an even better brother-in-law – when they decide to spend their honeymoon visiting me in Europe. In exchange I undertook to give them a uniquely un-Australian Christmas season, starting with them arriving in Heilbronn to a perfect snowy …
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In the Aussie bush
Tourists don’t usually get to my Dad’s shack and piece of bush south of Mandurah, more’s the pity for them. I spent a couple of nights here in this relaxed, slightly remote spot with no phone, no internet, no mains water, and electricity which only arrived a couple of years ago.My hope for a stint …
The blind lead the blind to Burg Stettenfels
It’s always great to stay with locals when you’re travelling in an unexplored region. But staying with pseudo-locals who are actually from the other hemisphere is perhaps not such a smart move. But my Slovak friend Tatiana (who showed me that great sunset in Croatia last summer) happily spent the …