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  • Bowlin’

    As I disconcertingly approach twenty years in Australia I forget how many times I have been exposed to “the most highly anticipated Ashes series in... Read More
  • A coastal landscape

    The comeback kings and queens

    There is jeopardy in revisiting a place of joyous memory. Risk in the raised expectations that many of the same ingredients will result in the... Read More
  • A lady walking along a coastal path

    Influential

    There can’t be any more secret hideaways only the locals know about left. Someone calling themselves something like Travel_Insider100 has no doubt filmed a 10x speed video and overlayed... Read More
  • A waterfall nestled among green undergrowth

    Free falling

    I don’t often shout very loud. or make much of a fuss. Or do anything whatsoever to bring too much attention to myself. Hence my... Read More
  • Sunset over the water with trees and ferns in the foreground

    Like ships that stay static in the night

    I would still, I think, shirk a cruise. Or at least shirk a type of cruise on a gargantuan ship with casinos and cabaret and... Read More
  • Balloons rising over a lake with a row boat gliding across the water

    Surprise!

    Whether it’s an epic global adventure or - more likely - random meanderings close to home, travel is an integral and frequently joyous feature of... Read More
  • Something somewhere

    Just wondering if my blog-writing is to go the way of logic, civility and sanity. A rare thing. Also wondering if a cabal of egotistical... Read More
  • Up and down under

    Yes it’s that time of the year again where I feel contractually obliged to say something, anything, about Australia. Have I been here so long... Read More
  • The size of England

    For many people, three weeks anywhere is a very generous holiday. And for many of these many, three weeks solely in England would be more... Read More
  • The size of pasties

    Cornwall. Finally a chance to soak up the landscape and imbibe the delicacies. And not just any old Cornwall, but West Cornwall, where the Atlantic... Read More

The Green Bogey Down Under

December 14, 2025December 14, 2025
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Bowlin’

As I disconcertingly approach twenty years in Australia I forget how many times I have been exposed to “the most highly anticipated Ashes series in history.” Only to be either irritated and / or bored senseless within the time it takes to make a dubious TV umpiring decision. So, here we are again. It’s funny... Read More
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A coastal landscape
October 4, 2025
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The comeback kings and queens

There is jeopardy in revisiting a place of joyous memory. Risk in the raised expectations that many of the same ingredients will result in the same, delectable cake. But a second time around some ingredients... Read More
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A lady walking along a coastal path
September 5, 2025
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Influential

There can’t be any more secret hideaways only the locals know about left. Someone calling themselves something like Travel_Insider100 has no doubt filmed a 10x speed video and overlayed it with circa 1998 fonts and shared it with their... Read More
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A waterfall nestled among green undergrowth
August 15, 2025August 15, 2025
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Free falling

I don’t often shout very loud. or make much of a fuss. Or do anything whatsoever to bring too much attention to myself. Hence my throat and lungs were aghast when I bellowed out the... Read More
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A person with arms raised in the middle of nowhere
August 2, 2025
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Cracking

A Most Notable Detour

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Sunset over the water with trees and ferns in the foreground
June 2, 2025June 2, 2025
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Like ships that stay static in the night

I would still, I think, shirk a cruise. Or at least shirk a type of cruise on a gargantuan ship with casinos and cabaret and eleven varieties of norovirus, where a life on algae seas... Read More
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Balloons rising over a lake with a row boat gliding across the water
April 21, 2025
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Surprise!

Whether it’s an epic global adventure or - more likely - random meanderings close to home, travel is an integral and frequently joyous feature of many of our lives. But we travel not only in... Read More
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March 1, 2025
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Something somewhere

Just wondering if my blog-writing is to go the way of logic, civility and sanity. A rare thing. Also wondering if a cabal of egotistical gazillionnaires will employ their artificial intelligence superkingbot to steal everything... Read More
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A to Z

February 25, 2014October 19, 2015
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Zzz…

...and so to bed, a closure of sorts on this long-winded journey that started off so awesome and finishes in a cocoon of fluffy pillows and cosy doonas. Among all the wonderful things seen, the delights tasted, the rants aired, it is sleep that has allowed them to happen, recharging the body and mind just... Read More
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January 29, 2014October 19, 2015
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Yurt

It was like wakening in a miniature circus tent, though with just the one clown stirring from an overnight slumber. Through a plastic window daylight was seeping into the octagonal space, the hard wooden floor... Read More
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January 24, 2014February 18, 2015
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Xenophobe

If X is a difficult letter then why not take on a difficult subject to make it even more difficult? Perhaps it’s because I am some culturally deficient rosbif, a soap-dodging pom who has come... Read More
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January 6, 2014October 19, 2015
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Waterfalls

It was always going to be hard for me to steer clear of a road named The Waterfall Way. Linking the tablelands of Australia’s New England to the mid north coast of New South Wales,the... Read More
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January 2, 2014October 19, 2015
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Viewpoints

We all have viewpoints. Mine tend to be moulded in a woolly leftish laissez-faire egalitarianism which is open to paying extra tax for everyone to be educated, receive healthcare and live in an environment less... Read More
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December 23, 2013October 19, 2015
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Umbrella

We need to talk about the weather. It’s part of my DNA: within one of my chromosomes that have also determined a reticence to introduce myself to strangers and a fondness for orderly queues linger... Read More
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December 3, 2013February 18, 2015
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Trek

It is pleasing to know that there is a minibus to transport you around on a Trek America tour. I guess this means Trek America is a bit of a misnomer, given that technically it... Read More
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November 24, 2013October 22, 2015
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Sidetracked

Back towards the start of 2013 I decided I was going to write this piece regarding the word ‘solo’. Not a whole two thousand words dedicated to the tangy Australian lemon drink, but an exposition... Read More
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October 16, 2013October 19, 2015
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Red

Red is surely the most schizophrenic colour. It is the blood that pumps through our body, and sometimes spills out in horror. It is the heart of the fire that warms us, the fire that... Read More
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October 7, 2013February 19, 2015
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Queen

One wonders if the Queen would care to be seen wandering the wonders of a London scene. Dressed as a stranger, flirting with danger outside of the comforts of pastel green Hats shoes bags and... Read More
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September 22, 2013October 19, 2015
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Petrol

“The ball-breaking torque combined with the twin thrust turbo delivers an astonishing rear wheeled hardon that isn’t good. It’s absolutely MASSIVE!” So says Clarkson on almost every episode of Top Gear ever. Like most of... Read More
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September 17, 2013October 19, 2015
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Oceans

I grew up by the sea. Not in a romanticised way, where snug cottages overlook glistening seas and fishing trawlers bob up and down in weather-worn harbours. Neither in the glamorous manner of those doing... Read More
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September 13, 2013February 19, 2015
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Neil

Okay, this is not going to be the ultimate in self-absorbed egotism revealing the characteristics and complexities of just one soul among the seven billion on this planet. In fact, it’s not even going to... Read More
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September 13, 2013February 19, 2015
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Momentum

I do tend to like a song that builds; one that’s all tender and melancholy to begin, subtle layers of sound layered with every soft verse until they rise into a crashing crescendo of strings... Read More
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July 26, 2013October 19, 2015
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Lost

It must have been the third time I had come across the unassuming facade of a small church, white columns illuminated at night in a dim yellow glow and reaching up to a plain second... Read More
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July 23, 2013October 19, 2015
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Kangaroo country

Nothing can be quintessentially more Australian than the sight of a man in a cork hat and grubby white singlet riding a kangaroo to work. Apart from a man on a kangaroo in a cork... Read More
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July 14, 2013October 19, 2015
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Journeys

If I was Alain de Botton I would have a superbly incisive sentence about journeys with which to begin this piece. Nothing like ‘a journey is the means by which one moves from A to... Read More
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June 9, 2013February 19, 2015
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Icefields

Despite being composed of perishing frozen particles there seems to be an inherent allure to the presence of snow and ice. I wonder if Eskimos feel the same way. Maybe this romantic view is nourished... Read More
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May 6, 2013October 19, 2015
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Home

Home is where the heart is, only pieces of my heart are scattered in so many places. The largest two chunks are undoubtedly at polar opposites of the planet, making for an interesting tug of... Read More
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March 31, 2013February 19, 2015
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Golfing

There must be an age in the life of every male in which you suddenly find it desirable to slash a thin stick of metal at a small ball in every which direction over the... Read More
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February 26, 2013February 19, 2015
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Fairytales

Once upon a time there lived a curious fellow with salt and pepper hair and ten year old T-shirts that had faded in the sun but, he thought, had not quite worn enough to really... Read More
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January 21, 2013October 19, 2015
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Elements

The problem with travelling around the Pacific Northwest, at any time of year, is the range of gear you need to have on hand ‘just in case’. October especially is the most transformational of months,... Read More
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January 13, 2013February 19, 2015
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Dawn

The dark cloak of night was yet to loosen itself from the town of Santander as I crept up from a creaky bed onto the creaky floorboards of a creaky guesthouse. Desperately trying not to... Read More
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January 5, 2013October 19, 2015
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Cream

I grew up in Devon, England. On paper it may sound idyllic for Devon surely conjures images of rolling green hills and tinkling rivers, bobbling their way down to the sea past thatched cottages and... Read More
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December 19, 2012October 19, 2015
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Beery

As an Anglo-Australian male in his thirties it is inevitable that beer has accompanied me on many occasions on the road and at home. At such times when one needs to know, like a doctor’s... Read More
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December 15, 2012February 18, 2015
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Awesome!

Well what a jolly upbeat place to start, no doubt setting the scene for the boundless enthusiasm that lies ahead. So, in order to put an immediate dampener on things, let me tell you some... Read More
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