Category: Culture & History
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Down Under, the song that imprinted Australia on my mind
I barely understood the lyrics, but that didn’t matter. The feeling of the song was enough. That flute melody, the rhythm, the energy of the band… everything pointed to a country where the sky seemed to stretch endlessly.
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Adelaide: A City Built With Intention, Space and Calm
Adelaide feels different from most major Australian cities. Softer, wider, more orderly. A place where the streets make sense, parks appear everywhere and the atmosphere has a quiet, almost European ease.
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Vegemite: The Taste That Wakes You Up in Australia
Vegemite says something about Australia: bold, honest, unpolished. Not sweet. Not designed to please everyone. But full of character. It’s a story in a jar — of war, tradition and a nation that developed its own taste.
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Walking Melbourne With the Kulin Nation in Mind
What I find most beautiful about the culture of the Kulin Nation is their relationship with land. They do not see themselves as owners, but as caretakers. Land, water, animals, trees — all are part of a network of relationships.
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Birrarung: The River Beneath the River
Long before Melbourne existed, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people called the river Birrarung — often translated as “river of mists and shadows”.
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Melbourne’s Victorian Terraces: Streets Built on Gold and Full of Character
Wealth shaped the architecture: wide verandas, high ceilings, double entry doors and cast-iron balcony lace filled with curls, rosettes and fan-like patterns. These were houses designed to impress.
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National Museum of Australia: Stories of Land, People and Identity in Canberra
One of the most striking pieces is the Saw Doctor’s Wagon, also known as the Road Urchin — a brightly painted, part-home, part-workshop wagon created by English immigrant Harold Wright.
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The Sydney Opera House: A Childhood Image, a Promise and a Masterpiece Up Close
Walk along the quay, run your hand across the tiles, and you realise that this world icon isn’t about perfection but imagination — a million imperfect ceramic pieces brought together into one idea.
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Melbourne: A City Built in Layers of History, River and Memory
Perhaps Melbourne fascinates me so much because it is a city of layers. A place where thousands of years of Aboriginal history meet colonial ambition, gold-rush wealth, modern design and that unmistakably Australian calm.
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A Quiet Sunday at Parliament House, Canberra
It was a quiet Sunday in Canberra. As I walked along the winding paths, I noticed how effortlessly the building blends into the landscape. It rests like a curved hill of glass, stone and grass