A winter break in Singapore

We escaped the cold New Zealand winter last week and headed north to the tropics for a few days in Singapore. 

Being a tourist in your own city: Thorndon village

When you live somewhere, you often take a lot of things for granted.  I sometimes forget how privileged I am to be able to walk to work through the Botanic Gardens and part of Thorndon on my way to work.

To the lighthouse…and beyond…

To say the weather has been mixed this summer is an understatement.  We’ve had storms, we’ve had snow on the …

Over the sea to Sydney

I’m sitting here in a hotel room in Sydney, where we have come for a few days holiday after the …

A castle, a garden and some more familiar names

In the last post, I mentioned the number of places we saw on the map with Scottish names in this …