"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." – Mary Oliver

  • Middle Rhine Valley Day 1: Arrival Oberwesel

    Middle Rhine Valley Day 1: Arrival Oberwesel

    Thursday 27th September 2026 We flew into Frankfurt at 9:20 am, and had originally planned to take a combination of train and boat to Oberwesel. Unfortunately the water level in…

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  • CBWC October 2026

    CBWC October 2026

    It’s November which means we’ve come to the end of the Cool Bloggers Walking Club for October 2026. Elisabeth’s CBWC is where we do 10 mins of walking, or other…

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  • NaBloPoMo 2026

    NaBloPoMo 2026

    Today is the 1st of November which means it is NaBloPoMo time. Hosted by San each year, you can pop over to her blog to read all about it. This…

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  • Books: September 2026

    Books: September 2026

    Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell From Storygraph: On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches…

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  • Reentry

    Reentry

    We arrived home on Wednesday morning and it’s been a tough reentry. Thursday night, the jet lag really hit me and I spent hours in the middle of the night…

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  • Berlin Marathon

    Berlin Marathon

    My wave for the Berlin Marathon started at 10:12 am, which is very late start for me. Usually races in Australia start at dawn, sometimes you start in the dark…

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  • Berlin Pre-Marathon Days: 24th – 26th September

    Berlin Pre-Marathon Days: 24th – 26th September

    I do plan to recap our days in the Rhine and Mosel River valleys but wanted to do these marathon centric posts in close to real time. We arrived by…

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  • A Singapore Layover

    A Singapore Layover

    Wednesday September 16th 2026 Originally for our trip to Germany we were flying Emirates via Dubai but earlier this year we felt that the US-Iran situation was a big unknown…

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  • 101 Things #2: 100 Day Check-In

    101 Things #2: 100 Day Check-In

    It’s time to check how I’m going with my list. I have a lot of process goals which are usually things that I want to include more of in my…

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  • Books: August 2026

    Books: August 2026

    Bodies of Light – Jennifer Down From Storygraph: So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found Maggie.I had no…

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