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City scribbles

Exploring the urban tapestry, one scribble at a time

Venezia all’Inverno (Venice in winter)

Destination Venice, for a week of painting at Julian Hyzler's art retreat. The first day of Summer in Melbourne (December 1) started as...

Food and wine in Nice, Alba and Modena

It would have been nice, arriving in Nice, if my lease car had been what I’d ordered, but Renault Europe knew better and ‘upgraded’ me to...

Monumental Madrid (September 2013)

We caught the fast train (cruising speed 300kph) from Barcelona to Madrid - 2:45hrs to cover 500km. It was a smooth and comfortable way...

A weekend in Paris (April 2009)

Well, Etihad, despite any misgivings about Middle Eastern airlines after Ruth had her arm slashed by Emirates several years, ago, the...

Barcelona!

The next stage of Bill's holiday was a high-end rail/river tour of the highlights of Northern Spain and Portugal, so he was booked into...

41 Degrees Experience

‘To call 41’ Experience a restaurant is to call Frank Gehry a draughtsman. The Adria creation is superlative sensory theatre, with every...

Christmas in Vienna

Having left Melbourne at 6am, Emirates dropped us into Vienna at 8pm, and Lidia was on hand for our first walking tour - of our...

Jordan: Amman - Jerash - Madaba - Petra

After settling into my room at the Kempinski Amman, I headed down to breakfast at 6.30 and tucked into a pair of fried cackleberries but...

Persepolis Plus

The drive from Isfahan to Shiraz takes about six hours, across a mostly barren landscape, but it’s full of interest, nonetheless. There...

To Isfahan

Fifty kilometres out of Hamadan is the Iron Age mound of Tepe hush-i-Jan. In the middle of a vast plain, it’s a stiff climb up to the...