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Australia: Far North Queensland
As my blessed mother would say “it happens in the best of homes” when something went wrong. She certainly did not have a complete computer crash – and an external hard drive back-up! – in mind, but that is what I had to contend with, at the end of my trip to Australia. I won’t [...]
Australia: Delights of “the Hunter”
The northern Hemisphere is getting ready for the golden colors of Autumn, but in Australia, Spring is being welcomed with open arms. So, too, at the Hunter Valley Gardens. This 25 ha. (60 acre) privately owned, themed garden was created from scratch in 1998 and opened to the public in 2003. By far the most [...]
Australia: Paronella Park – a Spaniard’s dream
Hearing of my Spanish (well, Argentine) roots, my friends decided that I must see how one Spaniard fulfilled his dream… Off we drove away from Innisfail, Queensland, through a landscape of alternating banana and sugar cane plantations. I commented on the many small railway tracks we were crossing: these are for the sugar cane trains [...]
Australia: The magic of the Great Barrier Reef
When I dutifully booked an excursion to the Great Barrier Reef from Cairns, I did so more out of a sense of duty of having to visit this one of Australia’s most iconic destinations. I owed it to myself, I said, since I am in FNQ – Far Northern Queensland – as the locals call [...]
Sydney: Museums
Being a museum mouse, I do try to visit at least a few representative ones in each city. In Sydney, it has been the Museum of Contemporary Art, centrally located right next door to Circular Quay, in the building from 1952 formerly occupied by the Maritime Services Board. The MCA came into existence in 1991 [...]
Sydney: Views at every turn
At the risk of stating the obvious, Sydney really is a beautiful city. Wherever you turn, a panoramic view opens – of the harbour, a cove, a bay, an inlet, a beach, a bridge, a point, a head, a park, a dip, a summit feature, etc. etc. And from very many places – a glimpse [...]
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