Through the eyes of a Dishmop

On May the 25th Sophie and I will hit Europe for 7.5 weeks to celebrate her finishing Uni. Nice excuse hey? This trip will be more of a backpacking trip on the ‘hop on hop off’ Europe bus. With this bus travel we can choose how long we stay in each place and have the [...]

If you’re Australian (or even if you’re not) here is the first of a series of tips for travelling Europe… Let’s start with packing… On my first trip, I carried so much luggage I almost pulled my arm out of its socket lugging it around. Cobblestones don’t agree with the suit case wheels, especially i

Today I had a lovely time turning an old post box into a side table. I bought it off ebay and it said in the description ‘comes with free bird poo and spiders’. I was pleased to see that their description was correct and I wasn’t ripped off! The Post box is from ‘Spring Gully’ [...]

Colin is a good sport sometimes. I almost drive him insane with my ‘photo moments’ but when I drag him into it as a prop… it’s even more testing on his patience. We arrived in Singapore at 6.30am after very little sleep and went straight to our hotel and slept for 7 hours. Then we [...]

Yesterday we arrived home from a day at Montserrat to find Colins undies sitting on the bonnet of a car in the street where our appartment is in Barcelona. It seems that they blew off the balcony of our 4th floor room! Did I mention there are 70 steps up to our appartment? Oh yes, [...]

We arrived in Manresa, Spain after driving through the Pyranees mountains and catching our breath at the magnificent views. In typical Europe style, we travelled through several tunnels over 4 km long, one of them costing 12 Euro (I would expect a meal and a beer for that!) and arrived and walked th

We left Figeac for Foix (pron Fwa) via Najec (pron ???). Najec proved to be a very beautiful spot with a breathtaking castle overlooking the village and the mandatory 1000 steps up to the top of the turret. I’ll leave you with a photo as I think it says it all… After leaving Najec we [...]

It’s so nice not to be taking anti-histamines after 4 or 5 days of them. I actually feel alive and awake today! Having been stung by a wasp (or something) and my left hand and arm swelling up from the elbow down, I was given cream and drugs at the pharmacy which worked nicely but [...]

Today the 4 off us took off to Gourdon, Domme and Sarlat. After the GPS sent us off circling Figeac 4 times for good measure, we ended up in Gourdon where we had a loo and lunch stop. As we pulled up, Lorraine and I used the toilet, which was one of those automatic ones, [...]