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  This conference is meant to be about books but it’s just a cover for promoting world peace. Everyone here is over 60 – this seems to be a recurring theme in my travels – and they’re all super philanthropic. I feel guilty now that I don’t run a soup kitchen or volunteer at an … Continue reading Sorry I haven’t written for a while – I’m a professional and professionals don’t mix business with pleasure.

  I’m staying in downtown LA at a place that I could never afford if I was paying for it, and the first thing I’ve done is spread out my clothes on the floor, chuck all my paperwork on the bed, have my ipod and the tv running at the same time and leave the … Continue reading a room with a view

  Washington is the perfect place to go to nurse a New York hangover. It’s quaint and it’s pretty and it’s almost devoid of tourists. I don’t know if that’s because I’ve come at some freak non-peak time of the year – all I know is that it’s been glorious. The funny thing about Washington … Continue reading post apple

New York is like the kid who cleans his room by stuffing all the clothes and toys under the bed. I keep on thinking that it’s quite neat, but everything’s just been shuffled under benches or moved into areas with less traffic, and if people do litter, they do it neatly – like folding up … Continue reading two days for the price of one

  If you’ve ever asked yourself where all the birds went after Hitchcock finished filming – it’s Liberty Island. The seagulls here are EVIL. I just helped one free itself from under a chair and he tried to peck my hand off, and then peck a whole lot of other seagulls as soon as he … Continue reading the bigger apple

  What a waste of a day. I woke up at 5am Rome time yesterday, and I got to this hostel about 24 hours later. Our flight got delayed for 6 hours which meant that I missed the Iron and Wine gig I booked ages ago and they’ll probably never come to Perth. The flight … Continue reading big apple

Thanks for the free tickets to the Vatican, Linda – if that’s even your real name – Maloney. She must be an older lady because everyone on the bus was over 60 and the only guy that looked around my age was wearing pleated pants, so he doesn’t count. The first stop we made was … Continue reading the grand popo

   I am not the only one that sings ‘hits’ from around the globe. The guy behind me was whistling Nessun Dorma today, and doing really well but he went sharp on the pivotal note and everybody was annoyed because we’d invested so much time in him. RIP Roger Whittaker – they can take your … Continue reading when in rome

  DAY TEN I hope that dear girl made it to Rome – I can’t imagine what the beds must have been like in second class, because I was in the best they had, and it was pretty bad. I was sharing with five other oldies but goodies, and they were so excited to get … Continue reading Train baa baa barbaric

DAY NINE Versailles was amazing! I stayed there for half a day and probably saw a tenth of what there was to see, but too much has been going on for retrospectives I’ve been humming La vie en rose all day. I’ve hummed it on the Champs Elysees where I alternated between that and Aux … Continue reading Au revoir gay paris