In 2011, my friend Joanna and I took the Prospector train to the gold mining city of Kalgoorlie, and drove a hire car 174 kilometres north to the sculptures at Lake Ballard. We didn’t stay as long as we wanted. A thunderstorm was approaching, and being in an open space with metal objects didn’t seem…
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Apr
I didn’t just see sunsets in Chilean Patagonia. Animal life in Puerto Natales Animal death in Puerto Natales Gertrude was one reason for the end of my Wonder Woman obsession. I met her on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy, Melbourne. We locked eyes on opposite sides of a shop window. When I tried her on, her…
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Apr
The 2016 Spanish Film Festival starts in Perth on Thursday at Cinema Paradiso. Here’s everything I learnt in 2015: Love conquers the age barrier, if you have a shiny new car and a house with a panoramic view of Barcelona. (From the Spanish movie Sorry If I Call You Love) Be nice to older women on…
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Apr
If you’re doing a cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula, it’ll probably start and end in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego: But there are other things to see, either before or after. You might want to go to the Patagonian town of El Calafate, because it’s near(ish) the Perito Moreno Glacier (even though I query whether that’s the Brokeback Mountain of Argentina,…
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Apr
It’s not very often I get gushy and sentimental, but it’s also my birthday. If you’re wanting something more, well, me, please click here. I saw 30 movies in 14 days at last year’s Spanish Film Festival in Perth. If you saw my Fringe show in February, you might remember three rather silly life lessons’I learned from…
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Apr
I’m with Lisa at the start of the Pride March, Buenos Aires, 2007: The Cathedral – where the future Pope Francis was Archbishop – is behind us. When I was at the same event in 2005, a smoke bomb went off during a conflict between Catholic and anti-Catholic protesters. Look carefully to see barriers and guards…
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Apr
Allegiance was a Broadway musical about Japanese-Americans who were interned in the United States during the Second World War. On 6 October last year, my friend JJ and I went to the first preview. Four months later, it closed. Broadway has revivals … … plus a show that’s been around so long that it could have been…
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Apr
The going rate to hide out with your son in a Buenos Aires love hotel is 500 pesos a night. (From the Argentine movie Refugee) Argentina’s inflation rate could make this one out of date, though it’s hard to say what that rate actually is. In December 2013 it was said to be 11 per cent,…
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Apr
