Mindful life, travel & food adventures
Takayama
Getting to Takayama was the longest journey of the trip and involved various changes of slow local trains using the ‘Seishun 18 Kippu’ which is a much more economical seasonal ticket and can be shared between more than one person.
If there was one part of our trip which … Continue reading...
Introduction
Visiting Japan in 2017 remains to this day our favourite trip we have done together. We had both long wanted to visit, even before we had met one another, being interested in the language, culture and food, as well as the geography.
Spring time was always a priority for … Continue reading...
A quick update on our tiny garden project – we have made the first of the new raised garden beds. It is made from colorbond corrugated roofing and timber and is about 120 x 60 cm x 75cm tall. I had been delaying previously as I was still working out … Continue reading...
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
So we are both still lucky that we have our jobs and are working from home for now. There have been preliminary signs of a haze on the horizon however. Mrs FW’s workplace have laid off quite a few staff and my … Continue reading...
We’re not even in our winter yet and it’s cold like winter last year. And, now that we’re living in an old house, the cold is far more evident. When we lived in a modern one bedroom apartment, we hardly ever needed the heating on, but when we did put … Continue reading...
Cheaper, healthier, tastier
In a nutshell, home made food can be tastier, healthier and more economical than eating out. After having lived with Mrs FW for some years, I feel my taste buds have improved if only a little bit. It is easier for me to notice when food we … Continue reading...
Introduction
Daylesford is a town in Victoria, about 100km north west of Melbourne. It was one of the first places we visited after we bought our car, and to this today is still one of the more interesting towns we have visited. There are various things to see and do, … Continue reading...
A Garden’s Winter Welcome
When we bought our home last year, it came with a wonderful and spacious garden- much more space than any of the other places we had viewed before (which were mostly townhouses). We didn’t move in until three months later in June, which down here in … Continue reading...
Introduction
My wife and I got married in Bali in October 2018. It was a fairly cosy wedding with 33 guests (mostly from her side), but that was already plenty enough for us.
Some years ago (before we had even met), I would have told you that having a wedding … Continue reading...
A quick one this week, but a very helpful one. Did you know you could reduce the term of your mortgage in a number of ways? There are a few things you can do, the first of which won’t cost anything but you’ll need to speak to someone at your … Continue reading...
Introduction
Last year we purchased our first home, right here in Melbourne, Australia. We were actively searching for six months, which according to a Google search is also the average. This is an account of our experience which perhaps might provide some insight into the journey and ideas if you … Continue reading...
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There are uncertain times ahead of us. The virus pandemic has triggered a stock market crash and has the potential to start a recession. While recessions are nothing new, there has never been one triggered by a pandemic, so we are all in new waters. If a cure could … Continue reading...
Welcome back. This is the second part of our mini world trip we did last year. The first part we covered our visit to Malaysia, Germany, Poland and England. This part continues on from there, with the first destination in the USA being New York. After that we did a … Continue reading...
Introduction
Last year Mrs F. W and I went on a mini trip around the world. I say mini because we were only able to visit a few places in the 24 days we had, but we were able to check a few things off. There … Continue reading...
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Everyone would like to have more to spend on what’s important to them, but not everyone takes the steps to look at how to make that happen, or is not aware of them. There are ways to go about this, and it’s important to realise that like a lot
Hello and welcome to Frugal Wander. If you have just found this new corner of the web then there may be a few things you are wondering, or to know if this is somewhere you might want to visit again. So here are a few points which hopefully might cover … Continue reading...