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  • PARIS: Baguettes – or the legend of the loaf

    PARIS: Baguettes – or the legend of the loaf

    It was just a couple of weeks ago, I was driving from Charles de Gaulle airport into Paris and spied, shuffling along the street of one of the outlying suburbs a walking cliché, an old. hunched man, wearing a beret and carrying a baguette at 65cm in length. The ubiquitous baguette – bread of a…

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    September 20, 2022
    Culture, Food, French, History, Paris, Traditions, Travel
  • How to go for gold – on Queensland’s Gold Coast

    How to go for gold – on Queensland’s Gold Coast

    Queensland’s Gold Coast is fixed into the holiday psyche of Australians who love to holiday in a place of variety, charm and colour which displays the aesthetics of a true playground for all ages. Always appealing, always evolving, ever the charmer – Queensland’s Gold Coast is Australia’s favourite destination for young and older holidaymakers. As…

    bmalzard

    September 13, 2022
    Accommodation, Architecture, Australia, Beaches, Beverages, City stays, Consume, Culture, Food, Hotels, Markets, Retro charm, Short stays, Travel
  • Dress to impress

    travelgaltravels.com/2019/08/20/how-not-to-look-like-a-tourist/

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    August 13, 2022
    Travel
  • Birdsong – or uncaged birds

    One of the most charming surprises on a walk through Sydney is an art installation in the laneway of Angel Place, just off George Street through to Pitt Street. Look up, look up to an array of empty birdcages of all designs suspended and hanging high. Artist Michael Thomas Hill had this splendid work Forgotten…

    bmalzard

    August 10, 2022
    Art, Australia, City sights, Culture, History, Memories, Travel
  • Is there a barber in the house?

    Is there a barber in the house?

    Or, let’s visit saucy Seville Arriving in Seville on a sun-drenched early autumn day will set you up for your senses to be tickled and your spirit to be enriched. Various seasons spent here will prompt different moods – so let’s discover the city as the last of the soporific summer sun takes us on…

    bmalzard

    August 3, 2022
    City stays, Consume, Culture, Food, Heritage, History, Spain, Travel
    Architecture, Spain, Spain Ola!, tourism
  • How to make sense of scents

    How to make sense of scents

    or a little dab’ll do ya! I think I’m more of a sensory person than a tactile one – but I do like to touch food, tree trunks, sand, gum leaves, woollen fabric . . . mmm, maybe I’m both. But back to sensory. I love and adore perfume. I do not go a day…

    bmalzard

    July 19, 2022
    Consume, Culture, French, Memories, Paris, Purchases, Retro charm, Travel
  • Stranger Things . . . . or Australia’s strange landscapes

    Whether your passion for the great outdoors landscape runs from desert, to the bush, mountain peaks, craggy coastal outcrops, rock formations that are just plain silly or vast sweeps of verdant valleys – Australia has enough diversity throughout all of its states and territories to rob the adjective bank  “The two impulses of travel are…

    bmalzard

    July 5, 2022
    Travel
  • Meeting royalty

    An enjoyable talk with @notaballerina. Celebrity Encounters on Your Travels: Episode 264 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast One of many odd encounters over many years of travelling.

    bmalzard

    December 19, 2021
    Travel
  • How to embarrass yourself – or myself while travelling

    The Princess of Podcasts (but she’s not a ballerina) Amanda Kendle interviewed me and posed the question: have you ever made cultural blunders while travelling the world. Oh, yes, indeedy! I have made many, not deliberately but in my early days of travelling, ignorance, naivete or blundering impertinence sometimes brought me undone. Mea Culpa. Foloing…

    bmalzard

    June 26, 2021
    Accommodation, Africa, Culture, Greece, Memories
  • Travel: Victorian Highlights

    I‘m going out on a limb with this post, taking a risk, throwing caution to the wind, heading into troubled waters . . .that’s a bit dramatic. Posting this piece on Victoria today, 1 June 2021, while the state of Victoria is in a state of lockdown feels a little ambitious? Yes? No? Victorians have…

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    June 1, 2021
    Accommodation, Afternoon tea, Architecture, Art, Australia, Beaches, Beverages, Cathedrals, City sights, Coffee, Culture, Food, Heritage, History, Markets, National Parks, Road trip, Rural and regional Australia, Slow Travel, Travel, wineries
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