Kenya Photo Safari

It is mid March 2011 already and I haven’t made a post since before Christmas last year….  the truth is that I have just been taking time out to reflect and spend more time with family and friends. I did, however, have a wonderful trip to Africa late in...

Christmas Hams

Every year, Donati’s Fine Meats in Carlton is named in food publications as the supplier of one of the best hams in Melbourne. People have a standing order year in year out and Leo Donati, pictured above, gets his production going for what is probably his...

Morocco with Meera 2011

FULLY ACCOMPANIED SPRING TOUR (UP TO 10 PARTICIPANTS)  26 MARCH – 9TH APRIL 2011 Join me from 26th March 2011 for an exclusive and exciting 14 day adventure in the Kingdom of Morocco. Early spring will have us touring through areas full of wild flowers. The...

Chanukah 2010

This year, Chanukah, the Jewish feast of lights began on the evening of 1st December or the 24th of the Hebrew month of Kislev.  Chanukah means dedication, consecration or inauguration and celebrates the reconsecration of Holy Temple in Jerusalem in the second century...

Date Harvest Morocco

I am missing the beauty of the date harvest in Morocco this year. The colours must be seen to be believed and are so stunningly captured by the French artist Jacques Majorelle in his 1921 portrayal of the Date Market in Marrakech, one of the few paintings I truly lust...