Orlando got a trip to Bangkok. Then he planned a side trip to Cambodia. I couldn’t go with him so I reckoned I deserved a little trip for myself. Victoria can be wonderful, even in autumn, but the sea needed to feature in my odyssey. After weeks of over-thinking the damn thing, Lee said something … Continue reading a weekend on the great ocean road
australian life
visiting noela & the mclaren vale wineries
My friend Noela moved back to Adelaide in the New Year. We miss her! So much so in fact that I went to visit her for the weekend about a month after she had moved there. We ate at an amazing Italian restaurant in the city, Rigoni’s, where I was actually served one of the … Continue reading visiting noela & the mclaren vale wineries
mena’s bookstore crawl
Mena’s birthday present from me this year was a bookstore crawl. We are both serious readers, and the luxury of wandering from bookstore to bookstore with a companion equally interested in reading appealed to us both. Coincidentally, the date we chose for our day out was the twenty-sixth anniversary of Mena leaving Ireland to come … Continue reading mena’s bookstore crawl
sublime to ridiculous
Friday after work (well, after interviews in my case) I sit in the quiet coolness of my CBD sanctuary, the City Wine Shop. A couple of blokes sit along the bar near me, one drinking a short black and one a glass of sauvignon blanc. I sip a glass of Pol Roger 1998 vintage champagne, savouring each … Continue reading sublime to ridiculous
Máiréad Doyle 