So, I’m 4 months deep into this Australian dream; what have I been doing, what have I achieved and where am I going?
What have I been doing?
Besides laying on sandy beaches, waking up to embrace the sunshine and moving 4 times across the Gold Coast, I have been keeping immensely busy juggling two jobs and a slowly growing social life.
I have been working for a Gold Coast bi-monthly magazine called The Four Two Society as a writer and photographer. So far I have worked on two of the issues distributed in their thousands all over the coast writing articles for my section, health and well-being and producing restaurant write-ups for the continuous openings that keep popping up. Predominantly, most my time has been spent visiting new seafood joints, burger bars, poke restaurants and some pretty cool cafes. I know, lucky right?
Entailed in these write-ups are firstly, a lot of back and forth via email to arrange a date and secondly, me heading down to these eateries and having their best plates cooked for me to taste, take photos of and naturally, enjoy some boozy drinks to wash them down with. I also tend to just hang and check out the vibe speaking to the owners and staff for a bit of background information to add to the article. Fortunately, this job diminishes any issues I often find around moving somewhere new – the inevitable lack of phone contacts – but with this job it doesn’t matter, I can happily go alone to some of the coolest hang-outs, munch on the newest food and I’m never short of someone awesome to chat to and make friends with!
That being said, here are some of my recent restaurant publications – click the link to check them out!
Katie Babb 