Denton’s dignified dying: a fight for voluntary assisted death

The other night, I walked into my job at the Plaza Ballroom thinking it would just be another normal shift serving drinks to a bunch of stuffy rich folks. But the content of the function that night was something which …

Dandenongs Day Trip

Today I took a day trip to the Dandenong Ranges with my handsome companion Ben. We perused the op shops and those selling crystals, dream-catchers and life-size bronze statues of wolves for $4500; you know the ones. We stopped in …

For Grandma

Yesterday, we said goodbye to our beloved Grandma at her memorial service in Castlemaine. My Grandma was an amazing woman. She was wise, passionate, determined, and had a wicked sense of humour. She was the epitome of feminism to me, …

Woops

Hey folks! Phew. I know I have been quiet lately. Guess what? I came home to Melbourne. And oops, I accidentally got caught up in a few other things so haven’t posted an update in a while. I’m sorry. Since …

Lithuania

Sept 12 – Atif and I stepped off the bus and encountered an odd situation whereby a lady naked from the waist down was being shouted at by a crazy guy…Vilnius was already promising exciting times. After using my awesome …

When my baby smiles at me I go to Riga

Sept 8th – My stay in Riga started off excellently with a hungover bus journey, during which the bus hit a cyclist on the freeway. I was worried it was bad and was afraid to look, but the cyclist was …

Tallinn

I’m currently writing from an internet cafe in Riga which smells slightly of body odour and has sticky keyboards. The further I go on the trip, the more foreign and scary the keyboards get. Arghhh, what are these symbols?! The …

Helsinki

After Porvoo, I arrived in Helsinki on the 1st of September and checked into the hostel. I went  for a walk around town, wandered through the second-hand shops, sat in a cafe for a while and walked past the beautiful …

Stockholm

FLASHBACK: Stockholm, 26/8 – 30/8 After my last day in Norway visiting the rather bizarre Vigeland Sculpture Park (lots of naked, weird-ass statues…there was some serious Karma Sutra stuff going on there, see above), sitting in an Irish pub having …

Finland, the Land of Saints

I’ve found the one public computer there is in the town of Porvoo finally (what is this, the 1800’s?), so I can give you an update. I’m going to do things out of order here, but before I do a …