Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
I read about the new Australian Ballet production of Romeo and Juliet in the Qantas in-flight magazine some months ago. The article was about the collaboration between renowned choreographer Graeme Murphy and fashion designer Akira Isogawa, who did the costumes. I have wanted to see a Murphy ballet since his famous production of Swan Lake [...]
In 2008 I went to Cambodia with photographer Peter Garmusch to write this story on traditional Khmer silk and to do preliminary research on a potential story about restoration work on the Angkor ruins. One of the strangest things we saw was a floating village near Siem Reap. We arrived too late in the day [...]
Do you remember the photo of that delectable dessert in my post about the Sunshine Coast hinterland? I bought it from the Freestyle Escape stall at the Real Food Festival in Maleny. Guess what? You could win a cookery class at Freestyle Escape and raise money to build libraries in Zambia at the same time! It’s [...]
I have hosted accommodation prizes for Passports with Purpose for the past two years running. In 2009 I hosted two Caribbean resort prizes – Coconut Bay in St Lucia and Tranquility Bay in Belize – and in 2010 I worked with the Fairmont Olympic in Seattle. They were all fantastic sponsors and the prizes sounded [...]
A cluster of stilt houses stands in a clearing in the jungle. Babies rock in tiny hammocks in the cool shade underneath the buildings, while their mothers chatter and laugh as they work. A young woman with glossy black hair pulled into a messy bun sits on the floor with a spinning wheel between her [...]
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