On a grey, long winter weekend, we drove up into the Dandenong Ranges to do a getaway-cation in a yurt. Somewhere, the cold is prettier and the air smells of wet eucalyptus and woodsmoke. Every trip of ours starts the same way: a small ceremony of leaving the city. It’s usually shakshuka at Tall…
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Flying to Sydney for a mental health break. What followed: a vegan Japanese feast, a borrowed dog, and a love language Indomie.…
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Eating crocodile meat has been my yearly goal since moving to Melbourne. I was so thrilled to tick it off of my list finally.…
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Our Meletos staycation at the end of last year turned out to be so-so only. The food, the service and the room could be much better.…
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I would get to tick off from my ultimate Japan trip list or add more to it. But I would be okay either way because I will always miss Japan.…
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After writing this, the last part of my Echuca farm stay series, I have to pack, tidy up the farmhouse and bid goodbye to the farm animals.…
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I was in the middle of writing a blog post, when Fafa called me for brekkie. Today it's only a toast, anticipating the lunch in Echuca town.…
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Despite the lunch blunder, I like Bendigo, dare I say, more than Echuca. On the drive back home, I told Fafa I could retire there.…
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We went to the Echuca town centre, which is best avoided during the holiday season as it's crowded with assortments of tourists.…
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I have jinxed it when I wrote about the peaceful sleep I had on my first night in Echuca because neither of us got much sleep yesterday.…
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After a 3-hour drive from Melbourne, going around almost four empty towns that reminded me of Timaru in New Zealand, we reached Echuca.…
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We reached home a few hours ago after spending the weekend at the Captain’s Retreat, an Airbnb cottage in Mornington Peninsula.…
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