Travel
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Tasmania – Part 2: Food
There are many many many people in the world who will tell you that the food in Tasmania is amazing. Food critics rave about the local produce, the restaurants and the coffee. My experience with the food in Tassie is that it is bloody brilliant! Honestly it’s some of the best food I’ve ever had…
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Tasmania – Part 1: Coffee
I have just spent the last week having a fabulous holiday with my gorgeous friend (and fellow writer) Louise. Louise and I met in about 2005 in Melbourne when we were both out at a bar on our own. We had both recently experienced break-ups, hers was just before a romantic trip to Melbourne (she hails…
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Byron Bay Part 3
On Saturday evening I attended my very first spoken word poetry performance night. It was put on by a group called Dangerously Poetic who work with people in the Northern Rivers area in NSW (including Bryon Bay). When I arrived I was hesitant, I’d never been to a spoken word event and all of my…
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Byron Bay Part 2
In my last entry I talked about finding some sculpture that I was going to post separately, well, here it is as a photo essay! This was on the foreshore in Byron Bay just up the road from the main pub strip. The plaque (below) says that the “Tree Theatre” was donated to Byron Bay…
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Byron Bay Part 1
I was recently invited to visit Byron Bay for a little over a week in exchange for dog and plant-sitting duties. I arrived on Monday 28th November. The pace of life in Byron is, well, much, much slower. Locals seem pretty chilled out and while there is some debate over whether Byron itself has become…
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