Category: travel
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Post card from Tallinn
I arrived last night in my charming hostel in the Old Town of Tallinn, Estonia. My friend Jaan, whom I worked with in Melbourne a couple of years ago, greeted me at the airport. Estonia is the 42nd country I have visited, and I am not sure why I count how many countries I have
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Uncommon choices: The Australian Festival of Travel Writing
I am attending the Australian Festival of Travel Writing at the University of Melbourne this weekend. I have never been to such an event and find it extremely useful as two important life narratives; travel and education- have come together. In my case, they have never really been linked except that a love of independent
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Wanderlust
A personal project that I have been working on in my spare time over the past few months involved locating, digitising, tagging, and putting into neat little country boxes (on Flikr) all the photos that I have taken on my travels since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. And there are a lot
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Berlin Wall, 1990
This is a picture of me at the Berlin Wall, August 1990. I am presently updating my personal archive and in the process digitising my analogue travel pictures and putting them on Flikr. Hardwork! Many of these I have placed on the Flikr stream on the bottom of the side-bar on this blog, but I
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Heart Land Tasmania
(My mother’s garden) It took me a while to get here, but I finally arrived in Tasmania. LA was a blast, but the 15 and a half hour plane ride over the Pacific exacerbated my world-weariness and soul-lag. I spent a few days in Melbourne eating steak, going to the beach, and catching up with