Lara DunstonLeaving the traveller versus tourist debate aside, what kind of tourist/traveller are you? Would you consider yourself to be a ‘casual tourist’? Or a ‘casual traveller’ if you object to being called a tourist at all? While my husband Terence was cooking dinner one evening in the big country kitchen my uncle and aunt have … Read more about Are you a casual tourist? Or traveller. The key word being ‘casual’.
Before we moved overseas a decade ago we thought Australian restaurants were some of the best in the world. And it wasn’t that we hadn’t travelled much. We had. But a meal at Testuya’s, Rockpool or Aria was better than any we’d eaten at overseas – even in New York. Yet since returning to Australia … Read more about What happened to the quality of Australia’s restaurants – and its restaurant reviewing?
A major incident was averted last week when Terence’s Mac died. Had we been forced to buy him a new one (it would have been his second in 18 months) to ensure our project workflow wasn’t interrupted and a book didn’t miss a print deadline, we would not have been very happy. Fortunately Apple came … Read more about Office essentials: a beautiful back-up process and a cute cat
So what is it that’s so inspiring about travel quotes? About reading profound snippets of writing plucked from novels, memoirs and diaries that have already been repeated countless times? And taken out of context too. Picture this: a tired travel editor, half listening to the banalities of backpacker conversation, and wishing he was down the … Read more about Travel quotes and the power of words to inspire us to move
I did stop to smell the roses today in my uncle and aunt’s garden. There are roses just outside the French doors to the library, which has become our office for the time that we’re holed up here writing, so I have no excuse for not taking a sniff more often. And the roses are … Read more about When you travel, how often do you stop to sit on the steps of a fountain?