A few of my favorite live music venues, Sydney

There’s so many things to see and do in Sydney that often visitors neglect the live music scene. There’s nothing quite like the energy and immediacy of a live music performance, and here in Sydney, almost every bar you go to will have, at some stage, a live band performing – rock, pop, or jazz – […]

The music of the world

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ~Plato This post brought to you by A-Word-A-Week Challenge from A Word in Your Ear. Every week, Skinnywench will dip into her old Oxford English dictionary, and pick a random word to blog about – either a […]

Jackson's Square, New Orleans

The Living is Easy in the Big Easy: New Orleans, LA, USA

The Big Easy, Crescent City, the original Sin City… New Orleans wears many titles. An early start to our day, and our first stop is Red Fish on famed Bourbon Street for an oyster po-boy, gumbo and sweet tea. The heat is staggering outside and we escape gratefully into the colourful, eclectic insides of the […]