Wandering the world

A little bit of background📝 This post documents our week-long self-drive around the Republic of Ireland in April 2018. Our wanderings were part of a two-week trip to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, with our 17-year-old daughter, E, along for the ride. We started with Easter in London  then flew to Dublin. From there we hired a car and headed north, for two and a half days in Northern Ireland, staying in Belfast and driving up to the Giant's Causeway  before exploring

A little bit of background📝 This post documents the few days that I spent in Los Angeles with our son, D, in 2012 for a period of downtime on the way back to Australia. I'd been with D on a Colorado baseball tour in which D played for an invitational team in a tri-state tournament. This was my third visit to Los Angeles after our initial stopover on the way to London in 1996  and our layover on the way back from Orlando in 2008.  Since the Colorado trip, I've been again to

Why I was in Colorado⚾ This post documents my 2012 trip to the United States on a baseball tour with our son, who was 14 at the time. D, as he is referred to in this post, was part of a state invitational team – the Queensland Dolphins – playing in a Little League tournament in Denver, Colorado. Players, parents, and coaches spent two weeks together, participating in the tournament, exploring Colorado, and doing the tourist thing in Los Angeles on the way home. A little baseb

A little bit of background📝 This post recounts my incredible journey through Morocco in 2007. I documented my Moroccan trip in 2020 on an earlier now-defunct version of this blog, 13 years after travelling there. The trip came about through pure chance, from a morning walk conversation with my friend and neighbour, whom I will refer to as B in my posts. B was planning a girls' weekend in Dubai with a friend who was stopping over there on her way back to Perth from Manchester