Category: Diary
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How to Enjoy City Travel Solo
I use to be terrified about travelling solo. I think we all are; the idea of being in a city alone, having to eat in restaurants without someone else to converse with or ward of the pitying eyes of others, the feeling of being completely alone and without support. I am not a natural fan…
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The Ultimate Travel Playlist
Music has always been a huge part of my experiences and I think it can really change a situation, define moments and solidify memories. Much of my personal memories are defined through songs or artists and travel is no exception. There are songs I will listen to that will take me back to a time…
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“What do you do?” – The Question of ‘What Should You be Doing?’ in your 20’s
‘What do you do?’ It’s the most dreaded question anyone can ask me, and unfortunately, at 23 years old, I am getting it an awful lot. When I answer with the inevitable ‘oh well… uhh… I finished my degree last year and have taken this year off’, I get the even worse question; ‘So…
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Sunday Morning Croissant Reading #2
This weeks collection of readings span the rather lighthearted (think Gossip Girl with Botox) to the rather sombre love letter of a dying woman to her husband. Reading in Short: The New Yorker has published a rerelease of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “I.O.U”. If you have ever tried to struggle through The Beautiful…
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Sunday Morning Croissant Reading #1
This little series is inspire by Monica over at Elgin Avenue, and her weekly email of notable reading material. Although Croissant Reading isn’t a new concept at all, I love a good Sunday morning in bed with a pot of coffee and some flaky pastries, catching up on all the reading in the news,…
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Living Danishly – How to Hygge
Another year and another happiness obsession. Last year its was the Japanese art of tidying, this year its Hygge, the danish concept of gaining pleasure from the simplicity in life. As a society, especially an internet one, we are pretty obsessed with the Scandinavian way of living, from Ikea to style minimalism. But Hygge seems pretty obvious…
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Why I Want to Adopt
To date, one of the most flooring experiences of my life was when I spent 10 weeks teaching in a tiny backyard school in the dusty town of Arusha, Tanzania. Volunteering in a country totally alien to your own, a world apart from everything you know and take for granted, is tough. Weeks of no running water, days…
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The Trump Card; beating the system.
There’s been a lot written about Donald Trump of late. So much negativity has followed his rise to unbelievable power. His inauguration preceded the biggest mass protests, market uncertainty and global terror in the modern age and we are all living with disbelief and skepticism over his presidential term. His speech is vile and hateful, and…
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What I’m Reading: The Cooking Book Edition
I love a good cookbook, boy do I! There is something inspiring and beautiful about clean laid out pages with perfectly lit images of food. I think it’s my OCD and perfectionism talking. I am having even more of a moment with recipe books right now thanks to these three heroes of food heaven. Each…
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The Late Night Musings: Potential Potential.
Potential is one of those loaded words. A word that can be used in both a context of excellence or one of disappointment, conjuring mixed emotions. Ultimately potential is what we all have in us; some just strive for the end result or outcome more. Potential lies in almost every aspect of human life; relationships, nights out,…
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A Saturday Morning in South Melbourne
It’s not often that I get a free Saturday; they are normally spent in torturous hours waiting tables (non-serious job prospects, amirite?). So when I do get time off, I try and make the most of it, and in my opinion there is nothing better than a morning spent at the market. I still don’t…