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…
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…