I have a few favourite places around the world. Or maybe not so few. But they include this little village just 12 minutes by ferry from downtown Auckland, where we lived when Cat was a baby, back in 2003. And this other little village in [...]
Do you recognise her? Just like stumbling upon Frank Zappa in Vilnius, bumping into Kate Moss in Oslo is equally unexpected. But here she is, bikini-clad and larger than life. Kind of in your face - and a bit of a contortionist, our Kate. A [...]
Countries that no longer exist - are you as intrigued by that as I am? The melancholic atmosphere of a land forever gone; somewhere ephemeral, glimpsed through a translucent curtain that is the past, just out of our grasp. DDR, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union; [...]
Can't travel. Still. (Where is that damn vaccine?) So again, I've been digging through travel memories old and older, that I've yet to write about here on Sophie's World. Fortunately, there's a lot of those. When Ali was 4, she and I took our first [...]
Remember The Emperor’s New Groove? Where Kuzco, the selfish Inca emperor is transformed into a llama by mistake, when his evil advisor Yzma gives him the wrong poison? My kids must have seen that film 100 times, and can quote pretty much every line in [...]
Ice, ice, baby! Or rather, Iceland, Iceland, baby! Want to come along? Is this how you think Iceland looks? You are right - to an extent. This is Jökulsárlón, a big glacial lake at Vatnajökull, Iceland's largest (and Europe's second largest) ice cap. On the [...]
Have you seen Babylon Berlin? It's one of my favourite series to binge during these times where all we have is time. The series is set in late 1920s Berlin and - despite the gloom and doom of those years - well, I just want [...]
