Author Archives: tawit

Eight days, mostly running workshops, in Uganda is not enough to absorb its colour, smiles and richness. I wind through crowded colourful neighbourhood markets with baskets of mangoes and papaya; women sort fine brown seeds of millet, swirling the seeds …

I arrived in Dusseldorf from Venezia a week ago. It was latish on a Sunday evening and earlier that day I had lugged a heavy bag and two ancillary bags, laden with mandatory Italian shopping exploits, from my Venetian flat …

“Ah but how can it possibly be as good as Australian Shiraz,” I challenge the wine maker at the Brotte winery and museum in the charming town of Chateauneuf-du-pape, near the Rhone River in north eastern Provence. “There is no …

I’d heard of and visited the wonderful Yorkshire Dales but was unaware of the magic of the country east of the Dales by the sea… the Yorkshire Moors, until I visited there with my two friends, Dave and Claire. We …

So what could possibly go wrong on my fifth trip to the Caribbean to do a couple of sailing regattas with On Deck? I thought this would be especially true, given I had a so much shorter way to fly …

I have been in Nottingham almost 5 weeks now… and Spring has certainly shone the sun here in this medieval  part of England, and the fields are scattered with daffodils, freesias and crocuses. Being rather obsessed with daffodils, I keep …

Leaving warm sunny Brisbane and the beaches of Stradbroke Island for the midlands of the UK during their tail end of winter may not be everyone’s cup of tea. And yes, they do drink lots of that as well as …

It was with some trepidation, but also curiosity that I venture forth on a work trip to Saudi Arabia. I’d heard about the subjugation of women and their not being able to drive, having to wear black shrouding clothes, and …

Our annual girl’s weekend this year was at Mornington Peninsular, a not too long a drive south of Melbourne, along Port Philip Bay. We stayed at the holiday house of one of my friends at Mt Martha, a rambling old …

I recently visited Penang, an Island state of Malaysia off the coast in the north west and connected by several bridges to the mainland peninsular. “Penang is one of Asia’s most liveable city for expats,” declares a colleague soon after …