Jik and I had our photo taken at the Cathedral Magnetic Termite Mounds — or, in simpler terms, a gigantic termite nest.…
Keep ReadingBefore visitors enter Mossman Gorge, the Kuku Yalanji people perform the sacred Aboriginal smoking ceremony as a welcome to the country.…
Keep ReadingOverall, it has been a very full (pun intended) day in Darwin, formerly known as Palmerston. Does it warrant us calling it Palmy?…
Keep ReadingThe first thing I noticed was the disproportionate number of people wearing Akubra (cowboy) hats at the airport and around Darwin city today.…
Keep ReadingI was late for the MFWF’s Ghibli-Inspired “The Heart Inside Night” at Robata and had to squeeze into an empty seat in the middle of the long table, dashing out multiple ‘sorry’s and ‘excuse me’s. Once seated, the first thing that caught my eye was the snippets of Ghibli movies playing in the background…
Keep ReadingI bid everyone goodbye and ticked off Sunshine Wonders after adding these three places to my go-to Sunshine, joining other culinary cultures.…
Keep ReadingBeing a newbie is a great excuse to keep going on Melbourne Chai Crawl adventures to discover the best chai in Melbourne.…
Keep ReadingI was at the toddy shop with Fafa, called “Toddy Shop,” a Kerala cuisine eatery located in the hipster neighbourhood of Collingwood and opened by an equally hipster-looking chef. The Toddy Shop is much smaller than the open-air OG toddy shop I visited in Kerala, but Fafa said this was the usual size of…
Keep ReadingSome time ago, I saw an email from Melbourne’s most iconic local occult store, Spellbox, offering a class on Favomancy. I had never heard of Favomancy before. The email’s brief paragraph describes Favomancy as the art of divination that originated in Italy using beans. I did a little more research and learned that it…
Keep ReadingLocated on the rooftop of a working space, Adda Yoga is one of the most highly-rated yoga studios in Canggu Bali.…
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