Beaune is beautiful. It’s small, localised, brimming with excellent Burgundy and has a very sweet little walled city centre. It’s so sweet that we didn’t mind that it took us seven hours to get there from Normandy, we nearly ran out of petrol after our naughty Nav Girl told us to exit somewhere in the […]
Travel
Ten days in Paris. It’s not a movie, not a song- it’s the first step of a honeymoon. Now that we’re safely south we can look back on it with some perspective. There were some wins, some absolute must dos and some things that I probably only needed to do once- Friday night at the […]
It’s Saturday again. If we were home in Sydney, the routine would look something like this- the Hungry One might wake up early and go for a surf and a coffee with some friends. I would very contentedly totter downstairs, collect the Sydney Morning Herald and make myself a pot of Earl Grey tea and […]
I’ll admit- I’ve had a checkered history when it comes to apples. There used to be a little red delicious propped every day in my lunch box next to a ham sandwich. I’d say about 50% of the time I ate it. The proportion that I ate it was in an inversere relationship to the […]
It’s hard to know how to behave in a palace. We’ve been to two in recent days and it seems like we’re not the only ones who are coming to terms with it. You’re not really sure if you should whisper or step lightly, consider each wall before moving on, or if you should document […]