Australia

  • Here’s a playlist I made while I was in Melbourne of (mostly current) Australian stuff I heard played in various…

  • On my last day in Australia, I had a few hours to waste in between checking out of the hotel…

  • While I was in Sydney, I went for the day to visit my friend Zoe in the inland mountain town…

  • When I was in Sydney I met up with my friend Vanessa Berry, who writes Mirror Sydney (in both blog…

  • While in Sydney I met up with my friend Emma Davidson who runs Take Care zine distro, and we had…

  • To be honest I wasn’t fussed about the centre of Sydney. I was staying close to the harbour, but it…

  • MONA was one of my main reasons for visiting Tasmania. It’s basically in an underground bunker like a Bond villain’s…

  • One of my main reasons to go to Tasmania was the MONA art museum. Because it’s pretty much a Bond…

  • Hobart is the capital of Tasmania, and one of the oldest cities in Australia- lots of old buildings. Even by…

  • Here’s Australia continued- my trip to Tasmania and the pretty seaside town of Sandy Bay, hometown of Errol Flyn. If…

  • Fitzroy Gardens is a park in the centre of Melbourne with a model village, lovely botanical conservatory and some fairly…

  • There are of course loads of great record shops in Melbourne. However the problem is that most of the stock…

  • Sticky Institute is a Melbourne institution- a zine shop in the basement of Flinders Street train station that’s been there…

  • In Australia, charity shops are called op shops, short for opportunity shops and Melbourne has really great ones

  • Melbourne was a boom town in the 50s and 60s with people wanting to leave post-war Europe (and also places…

  • Here’s some photos from around Melbourne in Sept 2018 (yes, it has taken me that long to sort them out),…

  • Here’s a few photos from St Kilda in Melbourne. It’s a fancy coastal suburb of Melbourne filled with interwar bungalows,…

  • Last year I went on a trip to Australia, with a stop-off in Singapore along the way. I’ve finally started…