Melbourne has done it again! After losing its number one ranking to Vancouver in 2002, the city is back on top in the Global Livability Survey which ranks 140 cities worldwide. There were 4 Australian cities in the Top 10 – Melbourne at 1, Sydney at 6 and Perth and Adelaide joint 8th. Melbourne scored […]
Tag: Travel
Bucket list
Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. –John Lennon Everyone has one, everyone should have one. That’s what life is about – dreaming! So, inspired by an interview with this guy on brekky TV last week, I have decided to write my list down. This will definitely be a […]
Phillip Island weekend
For Father’s Day this year, we decided to do something different so we rented a house on Phillip Island. Little did we know that a weekend of storms were forecasted for Victoria!
Camping Weekend
Over Easter weekend, I took Josh on his first ever father-son only camping trip. We drove up to Wagga Wagga in New South Wales and attended the Oz Mega Wagga Wagga geocaching event. The 6 hour drive (which became a 7 hour drive thanks to toilet breaks and breakfast and morning tea) wasn’t actually too […]
Lying in bed, thinking…
I was lying in bed last night counting sheep and listening to my daughter cough up a lung when I realised how quickly the last 15 years have passed me by. It feels like only yesterday I was impressing customers with my cocktail flaring skills from behind the bar on the beautiful island of Santorini […]