Not just the cocktail but the whole island! I was excited by the expanse of glass, steel and concrete before me. For so long I’d dreamt of this city. I felt like we were old friends before my arrival but seeing her now, from this amazing vantage point, I knew we could become more than […]
Bucket list item number 47: Snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef – tick! We visited Far North Queensland in the wet season. It was hot, humid, wet and wonderful. But as if on command, it only rained when we were in the car, in a restaurant or in bed. Our FNQ adventure started in Cairns […]
I’ve visited galleries around the world, The Tate in London, The Louvre in Paris, The Accademia Gallery in Florence. I’ve seen the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and the Statue of David. They are all magnificent but my favourite piece of art hangs on the wall in my house. The artist is my daughter. […]
I love New York! I love New Yorkers! Hamish and Andy were waiting for us at the Brooklyn factory. We needed to get from Little Italy to our 58th Street hotel room, shower, change and then back downtown to take our seats in the TV show audience. The ticket machine at the subway was out […]
“I’m so over Bali. I’m not coming back here.” That’s what I said at Denpasar Airport after a four day trip for a family wedding in October 2011. My husband and I first visited Bali in 1985 before it became ‘Australia’s favourite playground’. We loved Bali. Travelling between the villages of Sanur and Kuta or […]
I went to a guest lecture many years ago by a brand historian. It fascinated me. He spoke about how important is was for organisations to accurately record the history of their brand(s) and their corporate story. I’m curious about things, not in an engineering ‘how does it work?’ sense but from a social and […]
It was a cold, crisp April morning in the northern Italian village of Cortina. We’d just sat down in the window seat of a tiny, timber lined café waiting for our hot chocolates to be served. Italian hot chocolate is amazing – it’s like drinking liquid velvet. We were speaking about how exciting it was […]
