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You may not know this, but I have a Fine Arts Degree.. Yep, I am a trained Artist. How about that!The Husband is constantly ribbing me about it as I have not been Artistic, nor Creative for a long, long, long time.In fact, the easel and canvas he bought me about 7 years ago are still unused! How terrible is that..But every so often I really get the urge to 'create'; to use the right side of my brain a little more, to delight in colour and expression and fluidity.To get messy with paint, to sew more than a button, to make a ring, put clay on a wheel and produce a c[...]

I Love Food. I love eating it. I love cooking it. I love searching back alleys for it. I love trying it - all of it! To me, Food and Travel just go hand in hand. Two of life's most fabulous pleasures. Two of life's most fabulous treasures. International travel is off the cards for us all right now, but that doesn't mean we have to stop exploring. With some of the best travel shows streaming on Netflix, we have the world at our fingertips - with episodes that take us from markets in Mexico to hawker stalls in Singapore to the farthest reaches of the Arctic, a[...]

Well, what totally unprecedented times for our modern world huh? It started when we heard about people getting sick in certain countries. Not really on our turf so we were still OK. But then our realities shifted, slowly at first, and then before we knew it, the coronavirus took over completely. Entire nations were ordered to stay at home, borders were closed, we were told not to go outside, airlines have gone bankrupt, travel companies are laying off massive amounts of workers and some just shutting doors, and hotels are now hospitals & quarantine centr[...]