Hiking in a Mother City
A “mother city”, you ask? The English word “metropolitan” is derived from two Greek words, “meter” meaning “mother” and “polis” meaning “city”, a “metropolis”. It also indicates a city from which others have been colonized, a parent state of a…
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Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time
The title of this post is a quote from someone called Steven Wright. I can’t remember where I first saw it, or even who Steven Wright is, but the idea of everywhere being within walking distance if you have the…
Rundown Under Virtual Challenge Update
As I haven’t posted an update on my progress on the Run Down Under Virtual Challenge since April, and as 2021 has now now finished, it seemed like a good idea to do an end of year update for that…
Merimbula Marital Moments
As parents, Rebecca and I haven’t had more than a few days at a time away together from our children that were still young enough to be living at home with us. Now that Eliana is 16 years old, and…
Keeping Away from The Virus
Since my last travel related post, there has been a wave or two of the COVID-19 Coronavirus in Australia. And it still isn’t under control in some parts of Australia. So when I booked three weeks of annual leave for…
Far West and Far North
Between the 1st and 15th March, 2019, I embarked on a series of railway journeys around New South Wales, Australia. The railway related information for those journeys is located at the I’ve Been (almost) Everywhere page on my Railway themed…
Camera Club
For a number of years we have been looking for something we can do as a couple / family. Rebecca and I have our own hobbies and interests but a common hobby we both had was not so obvious. Over…
The ‘big smoke’, a big bridge and a big wait
There are some things that just have to be tried at least once. On Saturday night, at 11:45pm, I was waiting patiently on the Culcairn train station platform, and the Melbourne-Sydney XPT (think British Intercity 125 HST, but ‘Australianised, whatever…
Me, Pa and the Car
When my dad (who the kids call Pa) visits, I normally take that opportunity to do some sight-seeing. Often the sight-seeing includes trying to discover interesting railway related stuff (we are both quite interested in trains) where we are travelling.…
A Sabbath of Surprises
For Sabbath this week we decided that rather than go to church we would spend it exploring around the upper Murray region in New South Wales. The part of the upper Murray region which we chose to explore is about…