Carol Duval
Writer
Educator
Lifestyle Researcher

Podcast (Part 1) Author Interview

Trying Lives: A House Sitter's Tale. This book tells the stories of house sits and swaps across four years and five countries.

We're lucky to live so close to Sydney's beautiful harbour. Down the road at Balls Head, we have the Coal Loader, now reinvented as a...

To get us right into the winter holiday spirit, we spent an unexpectedly joyful day at the Weald and Downland Living Museum which...

23rd November 2018 Harrogate—A bit like a northern Arundel but with department stores. Lovely Christmas lights and festive shop windows....

Chichester — Nearest to 'home' and so our local shopping town. Cathedral, ancient walls, Roman Museum, buzzing shops—what’s not to love?...

Elaine left a very handy and accurately written booklet called Octagon Walks outlining with eight walks that we’re working through and...

What a change! From precarious mountain roads, thick forests and misty views of the Pyrenees to the hedged country lanes and green/golds...

After nearly seven weeks in La Forge del Mitg, friends Avis and Peter Gunn shared our final few days and gave us a chance to revisit some...

A recent email from my school friend Jenny (North Sydney Girls) brought a sigh of relief with her recounting of the time she was...

Elaine had told us that if we were beginning to get cabin fever in La Forge del Mitg we should spend a couple of days in Girona—Spain’s...

After a few days' driving from Paris to our new exchange home in the Pyrenees Orientale we've started to explore this fascinating area....

Our home for seven weeks in early autumn is in this small but deceptively lively mountain village in the heart of north Catalonia. The...

The story of our trip, courtesy of Viking River Cruise, from St Petersburg to Moscow.