Crisscross
Lest I become too rose-tinted about Cornish beaches, life back in Australia conspired to take me once more across the continent to Perth. This is... Read More
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Transitional
There was a somewhat fitting addendum to my journey in supposedly great Britain, a transitional phase elongating the journey between two hemispheres. Norfolk is rarely... Read More -
It’s the final Cornwall
We’re still in November so technically it was only last month that I was finishing up on my latest quest to figure out what the... Read More -
Mother country
I am back in Australia, honest! Proof of this are the shorts adorning my waist, the flat white on my desk and the gorgeous melodies... Read More -
Way out west
A sure sign that I had been in the UK for a while was the notion that it was simply ludicrous to expect to explore... Read More -
Getting Shroppy
Very very occasionally, when I find myself inordinately bored – probably a cold, dark night in the midst of a Canberra winter – I might... Read More -
Y Twwryppch Ddysccvyrnngh y byht uf Cymru
The richness of Britain is quite something. Not richness in an economic sense, that measure upon which so much weight is given – wander any... Read More -
Counting counties
Did you know, the westernmost county of England has no motorways? In the height of summer, as holidaymakers trawl through Truro, pummel Padstow and flock... Read More -
Bolt out of the blue
Britain excels in that insipid low cloud misty drizzle. It lends the country a rather depressing air, accentuating the abundant greyness of post-way concrete city... Read More -
Frictionless
When I get back to Australia I know I will get the question along the lines of “how are things in Britain these days then?”... Read More
