We went to Sydney at the end of March, part work (for Joe), part recreation, part family catch up. Had a great hotel, here’s our view! Actually it was a great location in Darling Harbour, walking distance from lots of places and close enough to where we wanted to go. When not at the conference [...]

During our short stay in Sydney in January we stayed with friends in Drummoyne. Its on the flight path and the noise from the planes is pretty incredible although I suppose you get used to it. We don’t have anything like it in Melbourne. They were pretty constant overhead when we went for a walk [...]

We enjoyed our stay in Hotel Hotel when we were in Canberra in January 2018. It’s in a great location in New Acton (where is old Acton I wonder), in easy walking distance of the lake. This meant we could enjoy evening walks admiring the views. And we loved the public art works that we [...]

I wasn’t very keen on the works on display in this exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia It was on from 20 October 2017 to 18 February and we went on 22 January. I am not familiar with anything about this sort of art, so am only giving a personal reaction. But it’s all [...]

This exhibition is on at the National Portrait Gallery from 10 November 2017 to 4 March 2018. It was fun. Big and small photos; behind the scenes, stills from rushes and publicity shots; from a range of films. It wasn’t as extensive as I thought it might be. There were photos from the very olden [...]