Art and Abart

Green, green and wet It is raining in Hamburg. It is raining and cold everywhere in northern Europe as a low over Sweden brings polar ai...

Someone told me recently they had been to Paris 30 years ago and had  decided then that they never wanted to return. Looking back down t...

My stay in Switzerland was a short one, just four days, but long enough to get over jet lag as well as hear two fantastic concerts. The weat...

Today Black Caviar (the horse) was racing at Randwick for perhaps the last time in its career. There has been so much hype about it that whe...

Holy moly ... we are being cooked alive. 46C in Sydney today I was in Sydney this morning ... it was searingly hot. It reached 46C by 2...

From the window of the train This is the border between Austria and Slovenia, between Graz and Maribor a train ride of something over an...

People often sit in the train from Sydney with their baggage beside them instead of on the floor. As the train fills up the bags get shifted...

Back to reality ... ... and back on a on the early morning train to Sydney. If you close your eyes it feels as if you are whipping along ju...

In Austria the mountains south of Salzburg are high and craggy. As you travel north past the Chiemsee lake near Munich you can still see the...

New South Wales has some hidden gems and one of them is the southern part of the NSW Central Coast. It is only and hour north of Sydney by t...

Traveling south from Salzburg the train is only about 3 carriages long so it travels quite fast up and up over the alps. Past houses with ba...

Weisel is 5km from the Rhine at Kaub and this 'castle' which was built by a local nobleman to collect money from boats using the Rhi...

The wonderful music on this little movie is a piece by Brahms called Feldeinsamkeit. It is freely (and legally) available for download onlin...