When we began to plan our trip to Australia, Brunette - who has a ready mental to-do list in her head for at least 123 countries - announced that we had to go to Kangaroo Island. Blonde had never heard of it but she's generally pro kangaroos and islands so agreed. Kangaroo Island is Australia's third largest island after Tasmania and Melville and it has less than 5,000 human … [Read more...]
Places we’ve loved: Perth, Australia
Perth, Australia is a place you should go on purpose! You know how sometimes you go one place just as a means to get somewhere else? Say you go to a party at a homely poor girl's house because the beautiful heiress you want to hit on is going to be there. Once there you realize that you prefer the homely poor girl. No, we can't imagine that either so we may have to drop this … [Read more...]
This week’s Twitter #FriFotos Theme is Curves – turns out there are a lot of them!
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Why won’t Sydney Warden leave Blonde alone?
[slideshow]B&B are planning a trip to Barcelona, Menorca and Girona for next month. In a rare instance of Blonde being the responsible party she completed the laborious process of registering the trip with the U.S. State Department's STEP program. The voluntary program is ostensibly to ensure that in case of a political event or natural disaster the State Department will … [Read more...]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Merge
Finding Jesus (more than once) in Melbourne
[slideshow] At the beginning of a 2011 trip to Oz, Blonde and Brunette cashed in some Starwood points and enjoyed three free nights at the Westin in Melbourne. The Westin is in the central business district near Flinders Street train station, groovy bricked alleyways with small cafes and the city's Visitor Center. It is not in an area that brings the Bible to mind … [Read more...]
Kookaburra learning that all that’s blonde isn’t steak
[slideshow]Blonde and Brunette spent three wonderful, expensive and exhausting weeks traveling in Australia in the spring of 2011. Our last two days were spent at a friend's (Dianne) boathouse near the haute hip Palm Beach area where a beloved Aussie soap opera is shot. (Personally I think soap operas should be "shot" but need to stick to my practice of never exhibiting … [Read more...]
Koala testicles in trees and explaining family trees
Blonde's chronic unemployment has its downside, what with the whole no income thing. The upside of unemployment is how it frees up time for travel. Only recently has it become clear(ish) that spending money traveling has not been a financially advantageous way to have coped with the whole lack of an income thing. However, being Blonde, it took two years and a lifetime of … [Read more...]