Category Archives: Australia The annual Thredbo Blues Festival combines two of my favourite things: mountains and music. Every summer, the delightful village of Thredbo, tucked into the unique alpine flora and fauna of the Kosciuszko National Park, plays host to this eponymous weekend festival. Restaurants, pubs, and public spaces, give themselves over to musicians and music-lovers from near […]  In some parts of the Tropics, they call it Rainy Season. In the northern reaches of Australia, it is simply The Wet. On a daily basis, the skies open, and it doesn’t rain, so much, as pour. I first experienced this when visiting my son in Darwin, NT, many years ago: mid afternoon, it was […]  They say that if you have too many lemons: make lemonade. So, it follows that if you have too much sugar by-product, you should make rum. That’s what happened in Bundaberg, a small city in coastal Queensland. Originally reliant on timber and maize, from the 1870s, sugar cane became the mainstay. With its humid subtropical climate […]  If you are going to be locked in your own region because of Covid-19 border controls, it helps to have a magnificent back yard! For most of the past almost-two years, those of us in Australia – like people in much of the rest of the world – have been under some level of travel […]  It is one of those iconic images: one of the world’s largest monoliths rising out of a sea of gravelly sand, with colours all along the red spectrum, ever changing in the light. Uluru. Sacred to the Indigenous Anangu people, this giant sandstone rock formation was said to have been created in the very beginning […] |
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