Category Archives: travel tales from faraway

I’m really proud of these little stories. One day there’ll be more :)

Is that a dream in your pocket
or are you just pleased to see me?

I’ve got a dream in my pocket. A bloody big one. But here’s what frightens me. It might not come true. And I could end up looking like an ass. Or a failure. Or just a little ridiculous. But at the risk of all that, I’m going to put it out there… I’m braving up. … Since I [...]

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Rewind two years ago …
a birthday in Rome

It’s my boy’s birthday today. We’re not big on presents but there’s always breakfast in bed and this morning I pulled out my travel journal and was reading this to him over toast and tea because two years ago today we were in Rome. He said “You should put these stories on the blog. People [...]

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Tales from Marrakesh … because that’s where it all began.

Hers was the first blog I ever read.  We’d been to Morocco briefly in 2007 and it was one of those places that gets under your skin. The sort of place you leave, wanting more.   So a few months later, back in Australia, I googled Marrakesh and stumbled across her doorstep … and into her [...]

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