Life is easy in Tbilisi - we have already rechristened the city The Big Easy of the East. It’s hard to believe we’ve been here a couple of weeks already and have quite happily fallen into a new routine. Go out to lunch every couple of days to one of our favourite haunts - between A$4-A$8... go out for Thai dinner once or twice a week - two mains, rice, beers... maybe A$20/€13... potter about the ‘hood hunting for groceries amongst various suppliers... th...

We emerged into the soft dusk of our first evening in Tbilisi quite tentatively. It had been a long while since breakfast on the plane and whilst our lives don’t revolve around food... it’s fair to say we’re foodies and as ‘food’ happens three times a day... it orbits our lives. It’s been a long while since we’ve had access to Thai food and, (as it’s one of Australia’s national dishes), we were keen. With a recommendation in hand from our hous...

Left, Flew, Arrived, Showered, Zonked. Well I did anyway. James was my knight in shining armour and kept watch over me while I curled up in a two seat sofa and died quietly. The flight from Zurich to Istanbul went well - ate too much, drank too much and was just too darn tired to stay upright by midnight when we arrived in Istanbul. Our flights didn’t qualify for the use of the suites in the Istanbul lounge - despite there being three flights up to three hou...

Time flies when new adventures beckon. That and sheer laziness has prevailed for a few weeks. Highlights of our last weeks in Spain? Well the Blood Moon was pretty darn amazing - we even lurked about on the roof until 10 pm to see the moon rise and were thoroughly impressed with the other-worldly-ness of it. Apparently Christopher Columbus & crew were stranded on an island at one point on his voyage to the Americas. The local inhabitants were getting a bit ...

Once upon a time, 6 years ago today, we kicked off a one year trip around the world - almost 3 dozen countries, 3 largest waterfalls, 3 hot air balloon excursions, the pyramids, safaris, skiing and scuba diving. When we returned from our year of ‘Not Being Grownups’, it became agonizingly clear that we just couldn’t go back to ‘normal’ and thus our current lifestyle, our ‘New Normal’, was born - housesitting - travelling and gallivanting about the w...