Let me start by saying I’m very excited to post my first ever sealed section. Here goes: The day before I left Australia I found out that my ex-husband’s partner had decided to surprise him with a (solo) trip to…
Category: life hack
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Not TMI but TBI
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.
Soup from a stone… fancy that!
So last weekend I paid $30 to attend a luxury travel event that included free champagne. As it turned out, it was bottomless champagne.
It seemed like a good idea at the time, again
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.