There’s more to Dublin than St Patrick, leprechauns and Guinness
It’s St Patrick’s Day and a great excuse to go green and merry in honour of Ireland. But what lays...
Friday, October 18, 2019
Code of the Underground: The ‘escalator rule’ and other Tube dos and don’ts
London's Underground is a maze of passenger laws, written and unwritten, and is rife with travellers intent on breaking them.
An expat’s joy: discovering English cuisine is actually pretty damn great
Whilst some would consider the term 'English cuisine' an oxymoron, I disagree. I think the British have mastered simple comfort...
In Britain, there’s a few words an Aussie needs to get right
I’d managed to negotiate the fruit and vegetable aisle - where capsicums are peppers, eggplants are aubergines, mandarins are clementines...
Escape like Casanova to vivacious Venice
Every traveller has different priorities when travelling to ‘the floating city’, but on the list for NINA McGRATH was to...
Cabs off to transport in London
BACK in Oz, before heading to London, I hired a black London cab to chauffeur my dad, my bridesmaids and...
Pun fun with The Sun in London
London newspapers love a good pun! Heck, even at Australian Times we dine out occasionally. However, one paper takes punning...
Returning to Australia — what a culture shock!
After three and a half years living the expat life in London, my husband and I made the difficult decision...
I still call Australia home
I looked at Facebook over breakfast and it was alive with talk of sun, sea, sand, steak, salads, sheilas, beer,...
Life is a Carnevale in Venice
With ‘carnival’ season quickly approaching around the world, NINA McGRATH visited the famed canals of Venice to unmask one of...
The best things to do for Christmas in London
It’s that time of year when London decks the halls and gets fully into the Christmas spirit. From festive lights...
Experiencing four seasons in London
After a decade of Brisbane’s year round comfortable climate, I was looking forward to watching the seasons change and London...
Is the Melbourne Cup Australia’s Grand National?
Back in Australia, I had an annual dose of horse racing on the first Tuesday in November courtesy of 'the...
When pants, bollocks and snogging is all you need
Aussies swarm to the UK like ‘scousers to a tash convention’ but sometimes we can get a bit mixed up...
The great debate: chips vs crisps
Choose your flavour, choose your colour, choose your chip. Just don't call them crisps!
Getting all confused about ‘Australian’ products in the UK
No dinner party attended by Aussies in London would be complete without a discussion of the baffling Ugg boot phenomenon.
These rioters deserve what they get
Obscene pensions, climate change, war and increased tuition fees are all worth protesting, and I am proud to be part...
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