Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
It is a little ridiculous that it took an American living in Paris to point me in the direction of a good lamington in Sydney but that’s what happened. A lamington is a quintessentially Australian cake. In the US, Girl Scouts sell Girl Scout cookies. In Australia, Girl Guides or school kids have “lamington drives” [...]
Some cities demand to be admired from the water. I know – I live in one of them. As lovely as Sydney is, it is never lovelier than when you are out on the harbour. There are other cities too where the water is a huge feature. Copenhagen and Seattle are famous for their beautiful [...]
That Roulla Yiacoumi is a clever cookie! She is a successful freelance technology journalist in Sydney and now she is also a baking entrepreneur. She has just launched her new business Cookie Constructions and is rushed off her feet with Christmas orders. For Christmas she is selling gingerbread houses in various sizes, in both a classic fairytale construction [...]
Freestyle Escape has updated its cooking class schedule for next year and it looks like a fantastic program. New additions to the schedule since my prize post include a class with Alex Herbert of Bird Cow Fish on July 7. Passports with Purpose ends this week – you need to donate by midnight Seattle time [...]
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 [...]
Call me a food geek but I really enjoy visiting local farmers markets when I’m on holiday. It feel I am getting to know a place when I see what types of produce are grown and made nearby. It’s also fascinating to see what rules the market goes by. Some markets are citified foodie destinations [...]
Now that the babies are nine months old and becoming more sociable and independent, I am able to turn my mind to my freelance journalism career once again. I have negotiated with my husband so that I can have some time mid week to work and if things work out, we may end up hiring [...]
For most of my Camera Craft II course at the Australian Centre for Photography, we studied the rules of photography – exposure, tonal range, colour theory, composition, and so on. For one of my previous assignments, I played with shadow profiles in black-and-white photography. But in the final week, our assignment was to break the [...]
I feel absolutely shattered tonight, having just returned from a trip to Canberra with my husband and the babies. We went to help celebrate my husband’s aunt’s 70th birthday and to catch up with her and various cousins. I’m glad we went – we all had a good time, especially introducing the twins to their [...]
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