About

I am Renate Drauz and this is my website.

The blog Inside My Mind originally focussed on our roadtrip around Australia during 2017-2019 but I’ve decided to pick up writing again now that I have more time. If you want to read from the beginning, go to SHOW at the top left, click on Blog, and scroll down to the first one from February 2017. Click on a title and this particular blog opens up.

This website is also meant to be a vehicle for the Drauz, Macduff and Drauz-Brown clans to connect and communicate.

I am originally from the south-west of Germany and grew up in the Baden Württemberg town of Heilbronn where I went to school. Later I studied English and Spanish in Würzburg and Heidelberg. In 1987 I moved to Glasgow in Scotland and somehow ended up staying there, living mainly in Troon for 28 years until Autumn 2015. I have three great, now adult kids: Paul, Tina and Jane. In 2015 I emigrated to Perth in Western Australia, my second husband Roddy being the lure.
My interests are travel, fiddle and violin playing, reading, my blog, our budgies, cooking, baking, cycling, walking, swimming, snorkelling.

My husband, Roderick Macduff, is Scottish by birth. He is a retired engineer who has lived in Scotland, England and, since 1989, in Australia. He is a man of many interests, has a passion for learning and all things Radio. We met online in 2009 and have been very much together since then, getting married in 2014 on the bonny bonny banks of Loch Lomond.