Today, with my one of my sisters and brother-in-law (my wonderful hosts for this week), I went out to Lorne, which is situated on the Great Ocean Road. First, we…
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When I was a kid, having just entered high school, one of my favourite books to read was the Sydney street directory. I had just recently moved to Sydney, with…
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Recently, I was asked by my employer to change my shift, from Monday to Friday, to Tuesday to Saturday. This would give Sunday and Monday as my days off. Yesterday…
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Trip Planning
Intrepid Explorer, or: How I Threw Caution to the Wind and Came up with the Crazy Idea of Riding a Bicycle Around the World
Over the years, I had been coming up with grandiose ideas of travelling the world for an extended period of time. It started out with the idea of travelling by…
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Today, I had intended to ride from Waterfall to Wollongong. A nice ride, along the Illawarra coast line, which should have taken a few hours. The sun was out, with…
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After finally throwing off my cold, though I still have my annoying cough, combined with fantastic weather, I decided to take a ride from Katoomba to Penrith. It was a…
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Vivid Festival is a light show, held in Sydney, in May and June for two weeks. It has been held, every year, since 2009, and has become quite the tourist…
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Today was a day of beginnings. Today, I picked up a new bicycle. Will it be the bicycle that I take around the world with me? Probably not. It’s just…
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(This post was written long before I decided to travel around the world by bicycle. I have kept the post, for historical purposes. At the time the post was originally…
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A visit to Melbourne, in winter, is not complete without going to an Australian Rules football game. Melbourne literally lives and breaths football. For Melburnians, it’s a way of life.…