I spotted a post earlier this week on a blog I follow which referred to one of the little-known jewels in the North Queensland crown, Lake Barrine. In the post, blogger Michael Lai speaks of the lake’s pristine water, it’s beautiful flora and fauna, and (quite rightly) of ‘the best scones and tea we ever had’. But…
I recently had the good fortune to take a round-the-world trip with five middle-aged ladies. (Hmmm .. last time I said that, I got thwacked by my wife, and my sister – but how else am I gonna describe it? We are all well over 45, the dictionary definition of middle age …) Sigh. Take two…. I recently…
I still choke up when I think of it. Hundreds of plaques; each one representing a young life snuffed out building a railway that their countrymen and allies would bomb out of existence in any case. Or the scores of names on a wall, memorializing the men who died as their ship was sunk without…
What do you call a South Pacific island paradise on a grey, windswept day? You call it still gorgeous. And also, Iles Des Pins – or Isle of Pines in English. A part of New Caledonia, the island (called Kwenyii in the local Kanak dialect) has around 2,000 residents – mainly Melanesian Kanaks. Like its…
Recently, I was in Rome at the end of an amazing cruise (It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime things: me and five middle-aged women, going around the world by plane and ship – I’ll tell you about it some other time). Anyway, as we checked into our hotel, one of our party spotted a flyer…
Average. It’s such a misunderstood word. Most of the time, when we say something is ‘pretty average’, we actually mean it’s sub-standard. But in the case of the Brisbane International Airport, average means just what it says. Average. Unexceptional. Nothing out of the ordinary .. but also, meeting an acceptable standard. For those arriving from…
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