Month: April 2014
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Berowra Waters Inn: a weekend away in a day.
Everyone needs time out, even if it’s a for a few measly hours, and if (like me) you’re a bit time poor, here’s a great way to get away from it all: lunchtime degustation. INDULGENCE! I like to think of it as a weekend away in a day. That’s just what lunch at Berowra Waters Inn […]
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How to avoid single-use plastic on holiday: 6 Top Tips
Plastic is choking our oceans, killing marine life and polluting our beaches. Most places you travel you’ll see evidence of plastic pollution and yet most people don’t even realize that we’re all responsible for this. We live in a disposable age. We eat takeaway food, drink takeaway coffee, sip freshly squeezed juice from plastic cups […]
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Snow monsters, sashimi and thigh-deep powder: reasons to ski Shiga Kogen
Located in Yamanouchi, in Japan’s Nagano prefecture, it’s easily accessible from Tokyo, with a regular bullet train service that takes exactly 1 hour 25 minutes to Nagano Station and shuttle bus service to the ski fields.
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Snow monkeys and steaming hot baths.
This is our introduction to Japan’s onsen tradition, in the hot springs region of Yamanouchi. As we head into the nearby village of Shibu Onsen, we’re about to learn a whole lot more.
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A high tea fit for princesses.
A few days ago before Miss 13 officially became a teenager, the girls and I dressed up in pretty frocks and walked across the pink carpet into The Langham, Sydney for a Right Royal High Tea.
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In search of all things cool in Tokyo.
Where are you going? “It doesn’t really matter. Pretty much everything in Tokyo is cool.”
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#Shine a light on what matters.
Canon Australia launched a wonderful initiative this week that I wholeheartedly support. The idea is to use the power of photography to shine a light on what matters to Australians.
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A whistle stop at the Whitsundays
I’ve never been to the Whitsundays before. It’s been on the list but I never quite got round to it, and last week I had my first opportunity. TigerAir has just introduced direct flights to Airlie Beach from Sydney – so not only are there cheap flights, it only takes two and a half hours to […]
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Where to next? Indeed.
So this is my new blog. With part time kids (and those kids hurtling towards adulthood) I have decided to move on from family travel and start blogging about my midlife. It will still involve travel obviously, but a different type of travel. My midlife of course still involves kids. Two of them full-swing into teenage-hood with […]
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