For Robyn Eckhardt there was no “that’s it I’ve had it” moment, instead there was a slow realisation, shared with her husband, that they could build a more fulfilling life than the one they were living.
15 years ago
Eating in Langkawi wasn’t as exciting as we expected. Miss M was more disinterested in eating than usual and every time we got a morsel of food into her.
15 years ago
We swanned off to Penang without much planning. It was perhaps a bit of Asian expat arrogance. Twenty-month-old Miss M is an old Vietnam and Singapore hand and we,.
15 years ago
Meet Mark Wiens, a 25-year-old foodie who isn’t following the traditional school-university-career track that’s expected in most Western countries. Taken by his missionary parents to live in France and Africa when he was.
15 years ago
When it comes to street food, Thailand is right up there. Everyone knows that. But, when you’re there, in Thailand, understanding not a word, fearful of food poisoning, feeling.
15 years ago
The renovation of a tired Singapore highrise has ended the battle of the Indian aunties, a dispute created out of thin air that’s provided hours of entertainment for me.
15 years ago
McLarenvale had me at the tourist information centre carpark. The sight of Autumn leaves and the smell of the rosemary bushes being raked into order make me fall in.
15 years ago
Long thin paper-wrapped parcels are tucked under besuited arms, as lawyerly conversations flows unchecked – adjournments, clients, weekend golf. Rough-looking round-bellied unionists hand out helium-filled balloons and brochures explaining the upcoming May Day public holiday.
15 years ago