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The best camera is the one you have with you

Caitlin — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:06:13 +0000

As a keen photographer, I love to get creative with my SLR. I don’t claim to be a great artist, but I am competent. I always use the manual settings and I have more than one lens. But the fact the camera is big and bulky means that, as much as I might love it, [...]

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A first weekend in Paris

Caitlin — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:06:40 +0000

This post is dedicated to Michelle, who is taking her 13-year-old daughter and 11 12-year-old niece to Paris this northern summer. They will have breakfast at a hotel at St Pancras station in London, before hopping on the Eurostar and arriving in the heart of Paris two hours later. What lucky girls, all three of [...]

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Chocolate fudge cake

Caitlin — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:20:27 +0000

Today was a day for burgers, not cake. I met up with about 20 food bloggers for lunch at Moo Gourmet Burgers in Newtown. The staff went out of their way to make us feel welcome with goodie bags and complimentary champagne. I enjoyed the food – I had the kangaroo burger, which came with beetroot [...]

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Enjoying life with twins

Caitlin — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:53:26 +0000

The blog has been on the back burner for the past month or two, but life is full steam ahead. The babies are filling my days, of course – E is walking very confidently and P has taken her first steps as well. They play together nicely most of the time and they are getting [...]

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Birthday picnic for twins – with cake!

Caitlin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:16:24 +0000

Last year, my husband and I went to a talk about parenting twins, given by a child psychologist, himself an identical twin. One of the tips that stuck in my mind was that he advised making two birthday cakes and singing “Happy Birthday” twice. Back then, this seemed like a concern for the far distant [...]

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Cyril’s Fine Foods, a Sydney institution

Caitlin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:24:19 +0000

A word of warning before you visit Cyril’s Fine Foods – Cyril may charm you into buying more of his fine foods than you intended. If you are into food and you happen to be in the Haymarket area, I definitely recommend you poke your head in and take a look. The store is on [...]

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The best lamingtons in Sydney?

Caitlin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:50:31 +0000

It is a little ridiculous that it took an American living in Paris to point me in the direction of a good lamington in Sydney but that’s what happened. A lamington is a quintessentially Australian cake. In the US, Girl Scouts sell Girl Scout cookies. In Australia, Girl Guides or school kids have “lamington drives” [...]

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Funny photo: The Elements of Style

Caitlin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:06:04 +0000

I guess this is a bit of an in-joke for writers but I found this picture in my archives and it tickled my funny bone all over again so I thought I’d share it. I snapped the photo in a bookshelf in London in 2005 but I don’t remember which one. Do you see what’s [...]

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Mango baby

Caitlin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:31:57 +0000

One of the best things about summer in Australia is the fruit, especially mangoes! My babies think so too – they’ll do just about anything for mango. You can see my daughter here sucking on a mango seed and looking pretty happy with life. Any time I eat a mango near either of the babies, [...]

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Thoughts on the travel blogging ‘community’

Caitlin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:46:17 +0000

Community. When it comes to travel blogging, what does that even mean? Is it compatible with cutting out the noise and being productive? Can you be connected to community and also appreciate the joy of quiet? When I started as a travel blogger in 2007, I was very keen on the idea of community (how hilarious [...]

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