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Venice, Italy. Wine, siestas, pasta, canals, lagoons, romance, shall I go on? Italians seem to know what’s up. I feel like they’d put red wine in their cereal and I’m not above that.

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Offering full editorial and production support, Pan Macmillan Australia’s Momentum is just that — faster to market. Because it’s digital-only. And DRM-free. And accepts unagented submissions. Worldwide.

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It is hard to walk away from you, Sydney, to walk away from a life that I so carefully created by the day, a life that I had always envisioned for myself: one lived out in the ease and pleasure of a life abroad in a society that understands how to press pause and appreciate moments in time.

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The Australian “O” sound is a very distinctive one: it contains at least four vowel sounds, and it’s almost impossible to transcribe here.

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OK, imagine Las Vegas, except it’s on a small island in the Mediterranean. Then replace the cheesy casinos with crazy beach parties, make the clubs the best and biggest in the world, and then fill it with drunk English kids and beautiful Spanish people.