It was a great stay in Mudgee with our anniversary hot-air ballooning outing, some stunning walks in amazing scenery and great drives - not to forget the awesome shopping and coming home with a fair load of homemade country preserves, antique finds, new jewellery and whatnot. But jeez it was great to be home too. No dog responsibilities for one thing, no one to look after except us. Petite apartment vs massive house - and our super little neighbourhood - though p...

What can we say? Paris and Sydney are our two favourite cities. There are many that we love - just not as much as those two. It was great to be back, our stomping ground hadn't changed a bit (well they appear to have finished the footpaths in Potts Point, finished George Street and the light rail in the city and are getting started on the rejuvenation of Crown Street…) but by and large, just great to be here. We had a great sushi feast from one of our loc...

We loved being in Sydney, hitting up our favourite shops, long walks, treasure hunting and planning for September onwards. As we see news coming in from around the world of extreme everything (flooding, heat, storms… yada yada) we feel that we are looking down the barrel of a gun as summer approaches*. We're the weirdos who actually enjoyed the cool wet summer we spent in Sydney during La Niña - not so keen on being here for her b****** mate, El N...

Enjoyed settling in, unpacking, sorting, making space - and then we were all ready to go for a 7 week sit in a modern high rise apartment in Pyrmont with stunning harbour and bridge views and a lovely old pussycat. This gave us a great opportunity to explore the inner west suburbs that we don't usually see - so lots of buses, lots of shanks's pony and lots of exercise as we flitted from Pyrmont to home every few days. One of the things we've been looking forwar...

Home. Usually it's where we hang our hats, where we've parked our packs and where the electric toothbrush is plugged in. For the first time in a very long time, say 11 years, we returned home today - and what a way to do it. The ship had been threatening to dock in the secondary port, White Bay. effectively the middle of nowhere from a Sydney-sider's perspective. The night before we arrived the information was updated and we were docking at Circular Quay and S...