I’ve been listening to David Bowie’s new album, Blackstar over the past couple of days, and I have to say – it’s like nothing he’s done for years. Bowie’s one of those unique creatures, who can keep reinventing himself. This current album’s been described as bleakly noir, and inaccessible, and evocative, and introspective. But its…
The theme for our travel pics this week is B – for Bridges. Today, it’s Franjo Tuđman Bridge, at Dubrovnik, in Croatia. This was as we sailed past the port of Gruz, and toward the Old City of Dubrovnik, on the Adriatic Sea. We were more excited about potential Game Of Thrones / Kings Landing sightings, but…
Here’s the second episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … Enjoy!
The theme for our travel pics this week is B – for Bridges. Today, it’s a footbridge, at Invercargill, in Scotland. We spotted this bridge as we took a break in the town, heading for Inverness and Urquhart Castle (on the banks of Loch Ness) The bridge itself is quite striking – but even more striking…
I am writing this blog post on a plane, in Economy class, on a low-cost carrier. I’ve recently spent quite a few hours on flights between my home in Brisbane, and the home of my ailing mother in Cairns, 140 flying minutes away. And every time, I vow to make use of that two-hour-plus window…
The theme for our travel pics this week is B – for Bridges. Today, it’s Welsh Bridge, at Shrewsbury in the UK. To be honest, we mainly went to this town because I am a Cadfael tragic – I’ve read all the novels about the medieval monk, and watched all the TV episodes with Derek Jacobi,…
I mentioned earlier that we cremated my 91 year old mother today. Here’s the eulogy that I wrote, to help celebrate her life. _________________________ Sacrifice. It’s an old fashioned concept, but in a lot of ways Marj Cairns (mum to the four of us) epitomised sacrifice. Her whole life she was one of those people…
The theme for our travel pics this week is A – for Antigua – and this was taken as we sailed away from the magnificent West Indies island. Antigua is also called Wadadli by locals – and that’s also the name of their delicious beer 🙂 Wadadli means “our own” in the local dialect, whereas Antigua…
It’s a sad day here at Cairnscommunications. Today, we hold a service to celebrate mum’s life. She died on Sunday, at 91. I’ll upload my eulogy for her a little later today, but first, I just wanted to share this photo.. One of the last ones with all four of us kids, plus dad (before…
The theme for our travel pics this week is A – for Antigua – Today, it’s sailboats skimming across the bay. One of the most popular cruise-ship excursions on the Caribbean Island of Antigua is taking a catamaran off to a reef, and then snorkelling in the crystal clear waters. And from this picture, you…
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