Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life! I'm a Violinist and doing what I love is often interestingly contrasted with the reality of getting to do what I love...
1 Mar 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Rollercoaster Unsplash Okay... I might be a touch melodramatic with that title, but I can start to see the beginning of the end! My kids are not little babies any more... however, much I remember them as that. The oldest is 10 and I can...
28 Feb 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Sometimes, when I'm away working on tour, I have the good luck to be put in a serviced apartment instead of a hotel room. Now, there are definitely advantages and disadvantages to both... but one of the perks of a serviced apartment is the fact...
27 Feb 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
Stepping Stone is a pretty nice vegan style cafe housed in an art gallery in one of the newer suburbs of Canberra. If you are a tourist, it is pretty damn unlikely that you will find yourself here... but if you are a local, then the quest to try...
25 Feb 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash This is my series about trying to find our footing in Australia. It will no doubt be a series of joy and sadness and struggle... Things will turn out alright? Won't they? Part 1: Settling In and AdjustingPart 2: Checki...
25 Feb 2022 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
When I used to live in Sydney (years and years ago...), my mother had told me about this place where it was supposedly THE BEST place to get Lap Cheong (Chinese dried pork sausages). She took me there one time, and then from that point on, she a...
24 Feb 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash You can find previous Brain Dumps here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21. Part 22, P...
22 Feb 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
This is my series about trying to find our footing in Australia. It will no doubt be a series of joy and sadness and struggle... Things will turn out alright? Won't they? Part 1: Settling In and AdjustingPart 2: Checking In...Part 3: House Hunti...
21 Feb 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
So, this is another fond memory from our last year in Europe. In our last school holidays in the Netherlands, we took a trip over to Scotland to visit a family member who was living in Glasgow. We ended up staying in a pretty nice part of Glasgo...
18 Feb 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Sigh, it has been only a month back... and I'm not entirely sure where the leak is (but I have my suspicions...), and my phone number is already collecting an unwelcome amount of spam and scamming text messages! In the Netherlands...
18 Feb 2022 2 minute read 4 comments bengy
Well... this is a bit of a blast from the past for me! Just near where we used to live in the the Netherlands, there was a small exhibition centre, de Broodfabriek (the Bread-factory). No surprise, it used to be a bread factory (I think... or it...
