Category: Travels
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Summer holidays
June 1 is not summer. Summer doesn’t happen until the 21st or 22nd and while it doesn’t annoy me that people get it wrong, I had a serious ‘Oh?’ moment when I found out that Australia had abolished the alignment with the natural world and the movement of the sun (solstice) and had set summer…
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My little traveller and my favourite book
Have you read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace? The opening scene has Hal, one of the protagonists, attending an interview for admission to the University of Arizona. He remains silent for the most part while his uncle speaks for him. The panel become distrustful and frustrated and ask his uncle to leave. At the…
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Melbourne, all the memories ‘Eat Me’ didn’t write about
My lovely friend Martin came back from London recently and brought me a magazine with a feature on Melbourne. Now bear in mind that I haven’t been back ‘home’ since the Sydney Olympics and nostalgia doesn’t take long to hit. The writer, Ruby Rockwell, spent seven days documenting her eating adventures in a lovely little…
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Transported: to the end of the line
The Monday that just passed, brought back memories of previous long queues, and the usual feeling of relief, as I tended to pass by with my monthly ticket. This time there was less satisfaction as I had to wait along with more than 80 other people, some outside the side door of the station. With…
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St Catherine’s, on the side
St Catherine’s, on the side, originally uploaded by still awake.
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Hotel de Ville
Hotel de Ville, originally uploaded by still awake.
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Lonely traveller
Lonely traveller, originally uploaded by still awake. One more traveller sitting and contemplating in front of the Hotel de Ville
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¿Habla Español? Poquito
Early winter morning and the woman at Dashi prepares my vanilla soy latte as we chat about summer and holidays. I mention a trip to Barcelona that I’ve always wanted to make. She tells me about her last trip to the Catalan city and how an inadvertent slip-up in coffee ordering had her drinking brandy at 8…
Ephemeral digest 