Category: Stories
All The Wonderful Colours Of Provence, France
If Provence were splashed over an artist’s palette, huge dollops of ochre, greens and blues would run into each other, punctuated by bright dots of violet, yellow and deep, blood red.
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A Dream Come True At Monaco’s F1 Grand Prix
I watched my first Grand Prix in 1993. Dad and I sat prostrate on the sofa of our French apartment, digesting a leisurely mediterranean Sunday lunch of mozzarella salad and copious amounts of baguette.
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A Quintessential Weekend In Fife, Scotland
I was blind. I hadn’t driven a car since Australia five months before, where the roads are wide, the weather generally dry and the visibility great.
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The Medieval Merchant Port Of Tenby, Wales
As you drive into Tenby you would be forgiven for cursing the bumper-to-bumper traffic that now fills the narrow streets every weekend.
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Working A Vintage Season In South Australia
The twelve-hour day shift starts at 6am. They don’t tell you that before you sign up.
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A Visit To Coonamble, New South Wales
“Oh, the kids here do one of those every year” someone shrugged by way of explanation. I continued to gawp, utterly horrified, at the giant papier-mâché edifice hanging only a few meters above my disbelieving head.
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Working In An Australian Sheep Abattoir
I ditched my office job for an unconventional lesson in offal sorting.
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Spending A Day On Australia’s Bondi Beach
I’m just not hipster enough to live in Bondi.
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The Curious Traveller 