Category: Travel
Japan
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NYE in Tokyo – A Zombie Apocalypse
Almost ten years ago my partner Lynda and I spent a month exploring Japan. We arrived on Boxing...
United Kingdom
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Ireland’s rugged west coast
To finish the tour of Ireland consisted of another couple of days driving the beautiful west coast...
USA
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Following Boston’s Freedom Trail
I’m so mad at my mother! I dunno! She’s a 102 years old. She called me up the other day. Said she...
Australia
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Twelve Recommendations from Twelve Months in Ballarat
My partner Lynda and I were pretty much forced into making a move from Melbourne a year ago due to...
Canada
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Reprise & a horror trip home with the vomit twins!
That was one hell of a trip back home compounded by fog in Melbourne and a couple of knuckleheads...
France
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4 Days in a sweltering Paris
The final stage of our 2011 trip was Paris and it was seriously muggy and hot, right in the middle...
Castlemaine’s Arts Hub
Castlemaine has probably been in the shadow of Daylesford in terms of the cool weekend destination...
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10th Annual Ballarat International Foto Biennale
After playing a footy game in the snow at North Ballarat in the mid 90’s, I swore I’d never...
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Ancient Bushland on Melbourne’s Doorstep
Most great cities around the world have some form of open parkland available for their citizens...
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4 Hikes in the Glorious Grampians
Spending AFL Grand Final day in the bush is something new to me as I’ve always treated it as Xmas...
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The splendour of the Scottish Highlands
Part 4 of our trip in 2011 after London, Liverpool and the chaos of the Edinburgh Fringe was a 3...
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The barely contained anarchy of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
It was a dream come true to get to Edinburgh for the Fringe and it didn’t disappoint. Part 3...
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Beatle-mania & Soccer…this is Liverpool
Second stop on the UK journey was Liverpool which was quite emotional for me knowing that this was...
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2 Days in a Steamy London
In the Melbourne Winter of 2011, Lynda and I had been seeing each other for 12 months and decided...
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How Melbourne Gave Us a 48 hour Hiatus From Life
For Desma, Chambo, Pumpkin, Jim, Glen, Neale , Chris and Dan We were standing in front of...
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Welcome to Boston
“Well it’s time for me to go folks, but before I do, I just want to leave you with something the...
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Last day in NYC, Queens, MOMA PS1, Grand Central Station & Central Park
Frank:What’s this a prophylactic wrapper? You were having sex in our bed? George:My bed is...
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The New York Jets at MetLife Stadium
New Jersey Turnpike ridin’ on a wet night ‘neath the refinery’s glow, out where...
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Lost in Brooklyn, Chinatown & Little Italy
Saturday, 6th September 2014 6.30pm. Well we’ve just returned from walking about 25km today in...
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Lincoln Centre & Greenwich Village
Saturday 5thSeptember 2014. 7.30am. Lynda’s just read the weather report for NYC today, 35...
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The Bronx Zoo & Yankee Stadium
Black Comedian- “SWEEEET CAROLINE!!!” (holds microphone towards the audience) Audience– BUM!!,...
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Amateur Night at The Apollo Theatre Harlem
“Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other...
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Radio City and The Whitney Museum
Wed 3rdSeptember 2014. Headed off to Radio City Music Hall for a tour and grabbed a frapuccino to...
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Madison Square Garden, The Soup Nazi and The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday 2ndSep 2014 8pm. Talk about a paradoxical way to end the day yesterday. After returning...
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Live Blaxploitation at the Brooklyn Labor Day Parade
Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in...
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Harlem Gospel Church & Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mum – “Always look after those worse off than yourself!” Younger Brother Glen – “There is no...
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