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Baby WendyWendy Kramer: Wendy, old German for “the wanderer”, has spent much of the last ten years living up to her namesake. Her day job as a Geologist involves exploring for minerals in some of the more lonely corners of Australia. When not “out bush” she adapts well to a relatively civilised existence in Perth.

An interest in travel writing and photography was ignited by a year backpacking around the world, but she recently agreed to lend her viticultural expertise (mainly wine consumption) and update the Hunter Valley section of the Sydney & New South Wales guidebook. Enticed back by the fond memories of playing between the oak barrels at the old Saxonvale Winery as a child (but not so fond memories of being clobbered in the head by a stray gumboot during a gumboot throwing competition at the winery once). Life is short and the world is wide… but Newcastle is home.

At 30 Wendy, surrounded by friends with momentous mortgages/diamond rings/piles of dirty nappies, is mostly inspired and partly comforted by the J.R.R. Tolkien quote…”Not all those who wander are lost”.

(Pub: extract from www.lonelyplanet.com)