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120% Aussie as…

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 …

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The people you meet… again

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 …

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Life’s a beach…

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, …

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It’s a numbers game

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, …

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The travel mindset

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. …

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The people you meet

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 …