You can’t rule anything in or out, apparently, except ruling things in or out. It has now been officially proven. There are some longstanding, hard no’s in my life. Especially to do with food. I even have a list of what I call poison. I don’t know what is happening to me. Sometime soon I’m …
The Festival of Tina is all about collecting memories. But finding the right words to describe these experiences is what makes it fun for me. Apparently I now have so many ‘sayings’ that I have to write a book. I think I will call it Tina’s Lingo. I started writing this post on the plane …
It is the opposite of walking along and a seagull shits on you from a great height. You walk into a bar, stand on the sidelines of a frisbee game or stretch your legs on a plane and…. tada… an interesting person appears. It is like magic. You all know that this has been happening …
So it turns out that acronyms are awesome. Because they can stand for more than one thing… Like TBI. It was previously Tina’s Bar Investigations. But when you are on a cruise in the Mediterranean, or anywhere really, it can stand for Tina’s Beach Investigations. Any of my long-term followers will know that last year, …
I prefer the temperature of the sea to start with a 2, but my seat number on a plane to start with a 1. And so it begins. Let’s call it the FOT #4, but who’s counting? It began back in Australia when I realised that although I had booked my first flight on Scoot, …
The travel mindset is just that: a mindset, not a destination. And I was reminded today that you don’t have to be travelling to have it. I set out for a walk on the coldest day ever in my home town of Thirroul. To those from ‘overseas’ our idea of cold and yours do differ. …
Someone asked me today if I had finished my book of adventures. I had to think about it for a few minutes. My answer: my adventures are ongoing. There are some very exciting ones in my near future: The Great Barrier Reef in the north of Australia, Nottingham in the UK, Corsica in France, a …
The Festival of Tina is technically a travel blog. And that means you are supposed to review places, events or experiences. The problem is I’m not really good with the details.
So last weekend I paid $30 to attend a luxury travel event that included free champagne. As it turned out, it was bottomless champagne.
I’ve now asked a few important people in my life to make sure that when I die, the children get this written on my tombstone.
