nagambie is a country town in the goulburn valley. it is famous for fruit and also for a lake by the side of the highway.
one of the joys of my job is getting to travel to different parts of victoria to attend meetings at different library services. it was nagambie library this week to discuss our library [...]
hardly the bogan wedding that i was expecting, all of the guests ended up travelling to donnybrook from melbourne or the uk anyway.
had never been to donnybrook before, and i dont think i ever will again. not sure what one does when they go on vaction to places down that way. apple picking??
i visited tibet less than two years ago. despite the growing dominance of the han chinese community, the tibetans still lived relatively peacefully, albeit as the poor cousins.
right now the capital lhasa and other towns in tibet are in lockdown as riots between ethnic tibetans and chinese occur. apparently no foreigners especially journalists are being let in and [...]
Come on a walk through Fitzroy’s Indigenous history to experience Indigenous peoples’ strong and continuing historical, cultural and emotional connection to this place - from its Woiwurrung beginnings right up to the here and now. Follow Doug Nicholls to footy training; listen to his sermon; meet our Returned Soldiers, our female WW2 Munitions Workers, Atherton [...]
are the best holiday drinks, ever. with salt & pepper cuttle fish accompaniment [see bottom of image], the caprioska is the perfect end to a hard day in the surf.
i had little idea of the power of the ’wicked‘ van until byron bay. if you cant be bothered clicking on the link to the photo gallery then let me describe it to you.
think cheap campervan covered with graffiti art, and the more sexist theme the funnier. for example, ‘inspect her gadget’ (inspector gadget).
i had great enjoyment spotting [...]
you know that you are in a town obsessed by surfing when the first, third and last pages of the morning newspaper are dominated by surf stories. [should or should not the rip curl pro tour be held at lennox head near byron bay]. and every second store is a surfwear/surf accessories store [my dream [...]
a friend who appreciates humour yesterday sent me the link to this guardian travel blog. it’s fucking hilarious so you have to read it, especially for the comments. i wish my travel blogs could elicit such passion.
in 2006 when i was hanging around india nepal and tibet i met ’max’. i liked ‘max’ a lot [though i have [...]
Available for a short time only from Kikuya, a ramen shop near Tokyo’s Kitasenjyu Station. Other items on the menu include white ramen (yogurt), red ramen (tomato), natto ramen, milk ramen, hot cocoa ramen, and pork kimchi ramen.
oishii, ne?
edmund hillary died on the weekend. my updated banner image was taken on a flight between tibet and nepal in 06. in my opinion, ALL mountains in the himalayan ranges are impossibly high and impossibly dangerous and impossibly impossible to ever contemplate climbing.
when i walked to everest base camp [tibet side], in the two or so [...]
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