This Sydney summer has reminded me of the wet and miserable summers we used to have in The Netherlands. Digging into the facts makes it even gloomier. Apart from the temperature, the past Sydney summer has been worse than the average Dutch summer. It rained on average once every two days (!). Looking back at the [...]
Gossling is the artists name of Helen Croome, a singer songwriter from Melbourne. She used to study Psychology, but skipped lessons to learn herself playing guitar in quiet rooms of the university building. Eventually she switched to the Bachelor of Music study at the same university, and released two EPs during that time. The third [...]
The title isn’t right, as the official ‘rice table’ (a table filled with 10+ dishes) has been invented by the Dutch. But still in Indonesia known as ‘rice table’ or the Dutch equivalent ‘rijstafel’ what they spell with only one ‘t’. Anyway, it means eating good, and eating a lot ! With our move to [...]
Mathis Haug is a blues musician from the Black Forest area in southern Germany. His grandmother raised him with German folktale songs and learned him to play the guitar, what she has learned from American soldiers who were based in Germany at the end of World War II. Mathis has just released his debut album [...]
The kookaburra is a miraculous Australian bird. They usually sit quiet on the branch of a tree waiting until they see a worm or a bug moving on the ground. They take a deep dive, pick up, swallow and fly back to the tree. Except when they are with more kookaburras in the same tree, [...]
An honour or something to shame for ? Fact is that Sydney is the seventh most expensive city in the world to live in. This according to the yearly survey of The Economist Intelligence Unit. The cost of living in Australia has gone through the roof in the past decade. Ten years ago Sydney was 25% cheaper than New York, now [...]
blogger, masterchef, food lover, DJ@KXradio, works at Douwe Egberts, lives in Sydney Australia
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