An Adventurous Broad Abroad – A Day at the Races
“Well,” said my Aussie friend “if you’re going to be in Melbourne the week of November 5 then you’ll be going to the Melbourne Cup!” And so I did. The […]
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An Adventurous Broad Abroad – Remembering
My grandfather fought in North Africa in WWII and then in Italy where, at the Battle for Monte Cassino he was injured and sent home to recover. Two of my […]
An Adventurous Broad Abroad – Laid Back in Adelaide
There is hardly a day in this country when the thought doesn’t cross my mind that it will be a tough place to leave, and that was particularly so when […]
An Adventurous Broad Abroad – Way Outback
Many months ago when I was booking the first elements of this journey, I knew I wanted to spend time in the Red Center of Australia to see Uluru (The […]
An Adventurous Broad Abroad – A Town Like Alice
Alice. The object of my desires. I have wanted to visit this place since reading Neville Shute’s “A Town Like Alice” as a teenager. And I have vivid recollections of […]
An Adventurous Broad Abroad – The Ghan
As much fun as it can be to travel the planet aimlessly, this trip began with an objective. I wanted to experience one of the great train journeys of the […]
An Adventurous Broad Abroad – The Top End
If the most descriptive term that comes to mind for Singapore is ‘big’ then in Darwin it’s definitely ‘small’. They like to point out in Darwin that they are the […]
An Adventurous Broad Abroad
If I could meet someone from the past I might choose Eleanor Roosevelt. The wife of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was not only the longest serving First Lady (1933-1945) […]
WestCoastGirl @ Home
I’m getting ready to leave home for an indefinite period of time. My retirement gift to myself is to get on a plane without a return ticket, with no specific […]
