Category Archives: travels closer to home

Beyond the city walls but still in Oz.

A tale of serendipity, organic wine and a sky full of lightening

We had a happy night last night. We were invited over to Mudgee (about an hour and a half away from us) to help capture an event at Lowe Wines … a six course dinner for a hundred people among the vines of their organic vineyard. Well someone had to do it But while it [...]

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Confessions of a house-sitter.

We’ve just had the most idyllic few days house-sitting my sister and brother-in-laws’ home on the northern beaches of Sydney. And I have to say that apart from breaking a window and screwing up Andy’s automatic watering system I think we did a pretty good job. So much so, that I’m now wondering if we [...]

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Duckmaloi. Yes, it’s a place.

A place very close to our hearts. It’s where we had Christmas. A beautiful, crazy, bustling, overflowing Aussie Christmas. With our very own Christmas elf. Cousins, big and small. And plenty of helping hands. Steve’s grandparents built the original Duckmaloi Guesthouse in 1940 and Steve’s brother Gerard still runs it today as self contained accommodation. [...]

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