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Drifting Notes Podcast

Lyss

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/6d. Total Eps: 14

Short, voice-driven travel stories—made for anyone curious about the quieter corners of the world. I’m an Australian who’s somehow lived half a life in Europe. Home these days is a sailboat, though I spend as much time in airports as I do at sea. I record these stories wherever I can find a patch of stillness—sometimes in a marina, sometimes in a gale, sometimes balancing my phone on a suitcase in a boarding lounge. These are stories from the sea, the road, and the places my mother once wandered. For anyone who’s ever looked out a train window and made up a story about it. Love Lyss.

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Café crème and correspondence

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 • Duration 06:25

What does it mean to truly learn a country—not through guidebooks or Google, but through voice notes to friends? In this episode of Drifting Notes, I reflect on a slow, curious season in southern France, three months of coastal living, café confusions, comic legends I’d never heard of, and the quiet joy of learning a culture through people who call it home.

From the mystery of café bowls to the comic genius of Louis de Funès, this story unfolds in fragments—sent as messages to Françoise and Matthias, who reply with hearts, recipes, and the occasional ah, Bandol...

It’s not study.It’s correspondence.And somewhere between the anchovy butter and the wind for wing foiling, I start to understand my French friends better too.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit driftingnotes.substack.com

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The bag that follows me

Friday, June 27, 2025 • Duration 04:49

This episode drifts between the Côte d’Azur and the Sunshine Coast, between the cheese aisle and the boat galley, between the deeply ordinary and something that almost feels like magic.

It’s a story about my Coles bag—bright red, bought fresh each year when I’m back in Australia—and how it’s become my quiet companion through dozens of towns and hundreds of unfamiliar grocery stores.

Every week, in every new place, I do the same thing - I shop. I check every shelf like a curious anthropologist. I buy ingredients for soup, always soup, and something I don’t yet know how to cook. And I carry it all home—wherever home is that week—in the same bag from a world away.

This isn’t a story about food, really. It’s about the small rituals that root us. The items that travel with us. The gestures we repeat that remind us who we are.

Sometimes, home isn’t where you are—it’s the way you shop.

Is there a ritual that grounds you when you travel or when life gets busy?

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit driftingnotes.substack.com

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What the angels see

Friday, June 20, 2025 • Duration 04:45

In the centre of Bandol, in the south of France, stands a cast-iron fountain—green with age, framed by 150 café chairs, and crowned with three small angels. They don’t move. They don’t speak. But on this warm June day, I decided to imagine their lives.

In this episode of Drifting Notes, I sit still long enough to give them names, personalities, and preoccupations. One loves watching chairs. One collects toasts. One is devoted to a sleepy dog named Biscotte. None of it is real—but sometimes, the things we make up are the most companionable of all.

Recorded between coffees, under the dappled shade of plane trees, this story is a small invitation to pause, watch, and let your imagination wander too.

If you were one of the angels on the fountain, what would you keep watch over?

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit driftingnotes.substack.com

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When the sea is still, but nothing is quiet

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 • Duration 05:29

In this quiet morning paddle near Cala Rustella on the Costa Brava, I found myself gliding over a sea garden—shallow rocks bursting with mosses, algae, grasses, and small sea creatures, each clinging to life in brilliant, overlapping chaos. This episode is a slow drift through that moment: above the surface, stillness; below, a gentle riot of marine life.

I talk about the pleasure of just watching—without diving, without needing to interfere—letting the underwater world unfold from the vantage point of a stand-up paddleboard. No freediving, no big revelations. Just the beauty of noticing.

There’s talk of velvet moss, blushing algae, sea cucumbers, and—yes—my usual search for an octopus (unsuccessful, again). But mostly, this is a short meditation on how ecosystems aren’t diagrams, and how looking can sometimes be enough.

What hidden worlds have you glimpsed—without needing to enter them?

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A chair, a shelf, and the sound of quiet

Friday, May 30, 2025 • Duration 03:52

In this episode of Drifting Notes, I take you to Süßen, a small town in the Baden-Württemberg countryside, where I found myself with an hour to spare and nowhere in particular to be.

Wandering into the village's Kulturzentrum—a timbered former home now serving as library, council hall, and quiet refuge—I slipped into a grey armchair and settled among strangers. Around me, a man read the newspaper, a woman studied cookbooks, and another browsed the recommended reading shelf. A coffee machine hissed in the corner. A plant leaned toward the light.

And I realised: this little room—gently worn and unapologetically analog—was one of the most human spaces I’d been in for weeks.

This episode is about the unexpected gift of places that don’t demand your attention, but hold it anyway. Spaces that make you feel welcome without asking your name. And the quiet relief of remembering that not everything has to be fast, loud, or connected to Wi-Fi.

If you’ve ever felt at home in a library, a waiting room, or an unfamiliar town square, this one’s for you.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit driftingnotes.substack.com

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She sang Fauré after dinner

Tuesday, May 27, 2025 • Duration 03:29

Some evenings linger longer than they’re supposed to. Not because of the time, but because of what happens in the quiet afterwards—when the dishes are done, the stories fade to stillness, and someone sings not to perform, but to feel something shift.

This drifting note comes from a night in early spring, spent in the upstairs room of my friend Astrid’s house in Donzdorf. No concert. No audience. Just her voice, a piano nearby, and the tender insistence of a Fauré song she’s still learning to carry.

It’s about music. But also about practice. About aging with curiosity. About what it means to love something enough to start again.

Thanks for drifting with me, Lyss

Have you ever returned to something you loved—something you hadn’t practiced in years—just to see if it still fit?

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit driftingnotes.substack.com

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The bag in the lobby

Friday, May 16, 2025 • Duration 03:50

In this episode, I share a quiet moment from a hotel lobby in Barcelona—one of those liminal workdays between meetings and flights, where the espresso is on a timer and the leather couch becomes a temporary lifeline.

What unfolds is a story about presence, trust, and the kind of kindness that doesn’t announce itself. A woman I never spoke to watched my bag. That’s it. But also, somehow, it was everything.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit driftingnotes.substack.com

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Spring loop by the tarmac

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 • Duration 03:43

I take you on an unexpected run—around the outer edges of Munich Airport.

It wasn’t planned. It wasn’t pretty. But somewhere between perimeter fences, vending machines, and the low hum of jet engines, I found something close to peace.

Join me as I jog beside something built for departure, past clumps of frost-bitten grass and blooming dandelions, and into a quiet moment of clarity. This is a story about overlooked spaces, unglamorous in-between times, and the kind of beauty that doesn’t need to be chased—just noticed.

If you’ve ever found stillness in movement, or meaning in a detour, this one’s for you.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit driftingnotes.substack.com

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Reading rocks

Sunday, May 11, 2025 • Duration 03:13

This episode of Drifting Notes was recorded after a jog along the east coast of Spain, where storm clouds gathered and the scent of wild rosemary clung to the air. A crumbling rock face on the trail caught my attention—not because it was striking, but because it made me wonder >> What would it be like to read this?

In this reflection, I explore the quiet poetry of geology—the ability to see deep time in cracks and layers, and how that perspective might shift how we move through the world. What if we saw not just the path beneath our feet, but the millions of years beneath that?

For those drawn to slow stories, elemental truths, and the beauty of what endures.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit driftingnotes.substack.com

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Click, Click, Fump

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 • Duration 02:23

In this short episode, we step inside a small-town hardware store that still hums with the he past. From the click-click-fump of a manual pricing machine to a proudly embroidered name tag, this is a quiet ode to the shops—and shopkeepers—who still know their stock by heart and their customers by their needs. Not a megastore, but a haven of small quantities and big care.

Listen in for a nostalgic reflection on what it means to fix things, to know a place, and to be known.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit driftingnotes.substack.com

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