Back on a dark and wintery Canberra evening last year, freezing in my badly insulated room, I received some news to warm me from the inside. My friend Danielle had just got engaged to her beau Jon and would be married in France! I was immensely happy for her. We had been friends a long […]
Exactly one month to the day since leaving sunny Canberra it had crept up on us after Myanmar, Kuala Lumpur and a lovely stint at home in Manchester – we were finally moving to Berlin! Touching down in Schonefeld Airport Mr S and I were full to the brim with excitement, excitement that couldn’t even be […]
Bold, gold and gravity defying, the Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, or the Golden Rock as it is more colloquially known perches atop a lofty mountain covered in jungle in Mon state, Myanmar. The stuff of legends, the rock balances defying gravity owing to a single strand of Buddhas hair interned within the pagoda. The story goes that […]
‘Darling, lets go for a burmese tonight shall we?’ Not something I have found myself saying before, and oh what a shame! Diverse as it’s people, Burmese cuisine is an utter delight. A melting pot of soups, salads and scrumptious curries, first impressions led me to think Myanmar has taken the best from its bordering […]
Law for sale on the streets of downtown Yangon in Myanmar.
Canberra. Public servants, Poli’s, Questacon. If you ask any Aussie outside of Canberra what there is to do here you will often be met with a vacant stare whilst the mind searches for a distant memory of some school trip to Parliament, or maybe, more excitingly Questacon, home of the vertical slide (which many Canberrans […]
Perhaps its waking up in a dorm surrounded by odd shoes, empty litre bottles of wine and a smattering of passports which has got me inspired again to write something after 7 months.. Bouncing out of work on Friday to come up to Sydney for uni and to meet up with Claire, my former housemate […]
When I was 14 I used to keep a journal, page after page of which rattled on about how much I fancied a guy in my IT class, what new phone I wanted, what I had for dinner and occasionally the odd hint of a dream I had for myself as a grown up. As […]
Fearing I wouldn’t actually make it to Canberra in the worst turbulence, I clutched on with dear life to an extended friendly hand, peering out of the window at rolling hills and a rather odd shaped looking dam. Though I didn’t know it yet the dam would be close to my new home and even […]
They say when it rains it pours and for me when the winds of change blow they certainly blow a gale! As I finish my job today at Victoria’s Department of Justice, exactly one year to the day since I left the UK, I’m gearing up to move on to (literally) pastures new to become […]
Girl Gone East 