“Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country” I remember, back in the days when I was a regular at a church youth group, discussing how this bible verse had (like so many others) an application in non-religious terms .. how we all tend to ignore that around us because it is…
This week, our travel pics theme has been A for Australia. The final pic in this series is, of course, of Sydney Harbour – but not the usual angle. You can see the Harbour Bridge, and the Opera House to the left .. but the sun flare over the CBD should tell you that it is…
It’s Saturday, and our travel pics theme is A for Australia – so, to mark the day, it’s an Aussie Rules game. For those from overseas that haven’t seen a game, it’s Australia’s most popular code of Football, played on an oval pitch with 18 players a side. Unlike English Football (soccer), you are allowed…
Out on the patio we’d sit, And the humidity we’d breathe, We’d watch the lightning crack over canefields, Laugh and think, this is Australia. Our Travel Pic theme for this week, of course, is A for Australia – and GANGgajang’s lyrics from ‘Sounds of Then’ contain a line that is just so quintessentially Australian –…
This week’s Travel Pics theme is A for Australia. And today, it’s the Gold Coast – Australia’s premier tourist destination. There are an estimated eight million overseas visitors to the Gold Coast every year – along with nearly 4 million domestic visitors. Think about that latter figure for a moment. There are 23 million people…
This week’s Travel Pics theme is A for Australia – and we head north, to the town of Gordonvale, about 30 minutes south of Cairns. Originally a separate town, it’s now effectively the southernmost suburb of Cairns city – but retains its rural roots, including the Mulgrave sugar mill in the heart of the town.…
This week’s Travel Pics theme is A for Australia – and for Tuesday, it’s the tiny town of Dorrigo, about half way between Brisbane and Sydney, on what’s called the Waterfall Way. There are only a thousand residents or so live in Dorrigo – but the Gumbaynggirr people lived there for thousands of years before an…
This week, we are restarting our alphabet of travel pics. After six months (and a few extra days) we’ve been through an A-to-Z, and so we are starting again – with different themes. We won’t get all the way to Z until Mid February – because our plan is to change to ‘daily highlights’ as we…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is U, for Under. Today, we are Under an Autumn Sky – in Brisbane, Australia, at Southbank. This bougainvillea arbour always reminds me of a dinosaur skeleton, and runs for about a kilometre along Southbank, connecting the Cultural Centre at one end and the Maritime Museum at the other.…
The theme for our travel pics this week is N for Night Scenes. These will be pictures we have taken on travels near-and-far, at night. Our first is only a short trip from home – to the Queensland Cultural Centre, at South Brisbane. I was here for a series of workshops on freelance journalism,…
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