Just got back from the local fish co-op with a kilo of Aussie prawns. (Set me back $AU19.50.) And I’m off to my sister’s place to enjoy them with a cold beer or two. Not sure when I’ll be blogging next so I thought I’d take the opportunity to wish you guys a very Merry [...]

We finally got into the nearest town to our resort on our last day in Fiji. It was called Sigatoka and we had planned to get in sooner but a dose of food poisoning Sally picked up eating ‘freshly-cooked’ snapper at the resort put paid to that. I loved Sigatoka immediately. It was a run [...]

My talk at Mary Ryan’s in Brisbane marked the end of my promotional duties for Vroom by the Sea. I’m a free man again so Sally, Daisy and me have popped over to Fiji for five days. We’re in the Outrigger Resort on the Coral Coast. I booked it through Expedia and upgraded to a [...]

If you find yourself at a loose end in Milton in Brisbane tonight, say around 6pm, pop into Mary Ryan’s Bookstore. Not only will I be giving a talk about my new book Vroom by the Sea, the guys from the Vespa Club of Queensland will be parking a few of their finest examples of [...]

The Observer have asked me to do a short piece about spending Christmas in Australia. Basically they want to know what our ‘traditions’ are and how they differ from other parts of the world. I’ve talked about stuff that I love about Christmas in Oz in a previous entry. I was wondering if you guys [...]