May 2023 (Japan)
I should start by revealing another love of my life and my family’s – the Collingwood football team. For non Australians reading this, Collingwood play in the Australian Football League (AFL). AFL is played from March – September and is the water cooler topic for most of that time at least in Victoria where I live. I decided to barrack for Collingwood when I was about 6 (a story for another day!). When I started going out with Andrew, I joined a Collingwood-mad family which reached back a few generations. For our kids, there was no choice. In fact, I remember our eldest son coming home from school and saying, “Mum, you never told me there were other teams!!” Arguably the biggest game outside Finals is played on ANZAC day* - 25 April - between Collingwood and Essendon. Whenever we are in Melbourne, we go and it is a wonderful day! Collingwood won this year too so an extra wonderful day!! On the morning of 26 April, we flew to Tokyo for a two week holiday. Andrew has wanted to go to Japa...