I planned this one for a Saturday on purpose. Salamanca Market only happens once a week, and I did not want to be the person who turns up on a Tuesday and wonders where everyone went. So I built my whole Hobart afternoon around it: market first, then up through Kelly’s Steps into Battery Point, …
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Most guides point you up Mt Wellington for sunset. That is fair advice. But the mountain is a long drive, the weather turns without warning, and if you have only a couple of evenings in Hobart you might want something closer, quieter, and easier to reach. That is where the eastern shore comes in. I …
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I almost missed Sapa entirely. I had one night in Hanoi, a vague idea that the mountains in the north were worth seeing, and a friend who said — without much explanation — just take the night train. So I did. I boarded at Hanoi station just before 10 PM, fell asleep somewhere in the …
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Been focussing a bit on facades lately and stumbled across a few photos from way-back-when the girls and I were wandering in Siena – way-back-when being circa 2007. I used a proper camera back then, see, but must have left it at the ancient farmhouse just outside San Gimignano that day, because all I can find …
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Wineglass Bay is the photo that sells Tasmania. That perfect curve of white sand and turquoise water, wrapped around by the pink granite peaks of the Hazards, ends up on every postcard and guidebook cover for a reason. In 2026 it was named one of the World’s 50 Best Beaches, and seeing it in person, …
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