When you go away for a short while, fitting in a few blogs is a bit of a tall order. But here is the final offering from my five day excursion to the red centre. We are on the plane home, we have waved goodbye to the big red rock and the landscape that has [...]
Category: Travel
Be my valentine
I am in love with a rock. A massive, ancient, red rock. It’s presence, it’s soft folds and it’s crumbled edges. It’s perches for flora and fauna. It’s generosity and it’s dominance. It’s otherworldliness, it’s stillness. We drove back to our red centre starting point, heading west after a Kings Canyon 2 day excursion. We [...]
Before I go…
“Three Ingredients” I will leave for Uluru shortly. It’s high time I made this journey to the heart of this land. What will I see, what will I do... and more importantly, what will I feel? I am prepared to find this a deeply spiritual experience. Or am I? Recently I have been meditating on [...]
Addendum: Nordrhein-Westfalen and beyond…
I'm home now, sitting on my deck on this pleasantly warm early morning. The typical Australian summer suburban sounds swarm, magpies carolling and lorikeets chattering amongst other intermittent and other distant birdsong and the fuzzy buzzing of the crickets' and cicadas' crescendos. It is always good to return to home and with the disorienting jetlag [...]
It’s all Deutsch to me…
I'm loving being in greater Germany. Although I loved being in Berlin, it is so cosmopolitan and such an international hub that you can easily forget you're in another country, and the Lingua Franca is almost Englisch which also contributes to that feeling of a halfway cultural experience. So when you move out of that [...]
Here and there
It's been snowing this morning in Göttingen, just as the sun was rising above the wintry clouds on the horizon. There's a dusting still on the roofs and the ground that's not melting as it's still below zero. We arrived yesterday around lunch time after a two hour train trip from Berlin. It was a [...]
Happy New Year 💥
It's the morning of New Year's Eve and we've been officially warned by our Airbnb hosts that Berlin celebrations are not for the faint hearted. Fireworks are only for sale for a few days leading up to New Years. The combination of alcohol and fireworks and youth can be an explosive mix. Achtung! The booms [...]
Ich bin ein Berliner!
It's 7:30 am and winter-dark outside. I've been awake for awhile due to a random sleep pattern partly attributed to jetlag, partly to a rather annoying viral illness. It's oh so quiet except for the resident cats chomping on their dry food, the other occupants of the Airbnb (my daughter and her boyfriend) are doing [...]
Sayonara!
A delay on boarding gives me an opportunity to pen some thoughts on this wonderful adventure we've had. I managed to get more of gist of Tokyo by the end. It probably helped because I walked 15km a few days ago. Not that that would cover much of the surface area of this metropolis but [...]
About last night… and so on…
It's a slow morning here in Nishi-Ogikubo at our small (Tokyo small) Airbnb flat. We had a lovely and rather late night out with two of Marcus' Japanese teachers from the school he attended for a one month intensive back in 2015. Such genuine and delightful women that were both interesting and interested, generously so. [...]
Presence in Place 