This is the life

So, Tas­mania. Can I just say how good it is to be paid to travel, and have the most amaz­ing food paid for in the most incred­ible places?  It was good to get the Dismal Swamp thing out of the way on Day One so it wasn’t hanging over my head. That night,...

Café Tabac

Tas­mania was fab­ulous. More on that shortly. In the mean­time, here’s a poem I fiddled with while I was there after I found two unfin­ished poems from 1998’s trip to Hol­land in an old note­book. The Café Tabac of the title is in Den Haag and is...

Off to Tasmania

After a lot of fuss­ing around, I’m off to Tas­mania today for work: I’ll be writ­ing an art­icle about Tas­mania for the travel magazine I’m edit­ing. I haven’t talked much about this magazine yet, because it’s brand new and does­n’t launch until early May....