If Paula hadn’t asked me to her wedding, I probably never would have gone to Argentina. Nor New Zealand. I met Craig in Buenos Aires in 2007. The following year, said he wanted to take a cruise from Sydney to Auckland, and would I like to come? The basic price for a mid-range cabin on the…
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Jun
This is a typical departure list at Dubai International Airport. Okay, it ‘only’ has cities on five different continents above. There’s no South America, but in January 2013, I passed through Dubai on the way from Perth to Buenos Aires. Hardly the most direct route, but it didn’t cost me that much over $2,000 return. When…
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Jun
I seem to have done everything but go to Wales. The first time I left Western Australia was on the Indian Pacific when I was four. We ended up in New South Wales, and I later lived there for a year and a half. When I was twenty-two, a bunch of us drove in a…
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Jun
I’m afraid I was yet to learn some basics of photography in New York City in 2007. The last two words of that sign are “each floor”.
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May
Stanley’s Winery was on the road between Mildura, Victoria and Wentworth. New South Wales. Not too many people have heard of Wentworth. It’s where the Murray and Darling Rivers meet, so was very important when boats were the main form of transport. For a time, its main industry was poker machines. People from Mildura used…
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May
I’ve driven on it, walked on it, taken the train on it, climbed it, taken the ferry under it, seen the sunset behind it, watched it from a friend’s bedroom window, been to the museum, flown over it, walked under it … though unlike a Peter Isaacson, I’ve never flown under it … seen it in…
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May
I have vague memories in my first year of primary school of our headmaster, Mr Godley, explaining whether ‘God Save the Queen’ still was Australia’s national anthem. For a while, it wasn’t clear what was. When Australia won gold medals at the Montreal Olympics, they played ‘Waltzing Matilda’, only they didn’t, because Australia didn’t win…
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May
I’ve previously bemoaned about the difficulties of finding printable material about San Francisco in a family-friendly blog. But who doesn’t like inflatable dragons? I found one in a shop on Castro Street. As for some of the other shops…
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May
