Petra was such an amazing place. The sights start a few metres from the Visitor’s Centre and then continue for about 8 km with only short pauses. It’s perfectly possible to walk as we did but on the other hand we had an extremely knowledgeable guide who talked and talked and continued ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
Hebrew is a fascinating language, it’s entirely logical and ever so much older than English, which means I get to say English has it wrong. Hebrew is written from right to left rather than the English way of left to right and as it’s older than English…you get the idea. ...
Today’s article is my first real article about my Israel trip. As with the rest of them it will be full of photos and I’ll try to explain them through my excitement. An archaelogical dig for a day! I can’t tell you how excited I was to actually get to a ...
Actually I lie a little. Yes, I’m back but I’m so disorganised that I’ve only just now copied my photos onto my computer. We got back from Israel on Friday morning and managed to stay awake until about 9:30pm when I conked out the moment I closed my eyes in ...
And now to explain why I had little internet access for a few days. One of the reasons I love writing a blog is that it’s quite possible to write in advance and schedule articles or even write while on holidays so no-one needs to know you’re away. The problem ...
You know, I was going to write some words about the whaling industry in Portland but it seems I have no photos of the equipment and most of the links I find when googling are about whale watching. I don’t condone the catching of whales but I have admiration for ...
From Portland it’s a short drive to many thing including Blacknose Point and Point Danger where there is a large Gannet colony. You can see the white layer in the photo above, these are the Gannets, this is the small colony, the larger colony is on a rock slightly out ...
I’m not going to enter debate as to the sainthood of Mary MacKillop, she was certainly a good person and is the first person born in Australia to be made a saint. MacKillop was born in Fitzroy on the 15th January 1842 and died in Sydney on the 8th August ...
I spent one day combing the shops in Portland and having a whale of a time. There are four bookshops and (I’m told) four op shops, I found all four bookshops but only three op shops and took photos of some of the above for you. The bookshops range from the ...
There’s some controversy over who was the first settler in Portland. William Dutton built a house there first but as he was a whaler he only spent part of the year there, Edward Henty landed in Portland in November 1834, built a house and turned the first sod (you can ...
There are advantages to following people on Twitter, distinct advantages. Not only do you get all the news and gossip but you might also get notifications about competitions and giveaways. The photo above is my loot from TezMillerOz. She is sent so many books for review on her blog that ...
I’ve been back for a few weeks and have been rather disorganised with regards to writing for the blog but it is now time to become organised again. It seems my migraines are back and I won’t know until I wake up if I’m going to be able to get ...
This is the last post in my American odyssey. “Finally”, I hear you say. I know it’s been a long journey and for that I apologise. This week we return to our regularly unscheduled programming, but only after I tell you about Providence. I reserve the right to continue putting some ...
New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town! Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Jules Munshin. On the Town (1949) And they weren’t wrong but the film clip then takes them on a 24 hour tour and there’s no way they could do all of that in 24 hours. The Statue of ...
Washington D.C. is a most amazing place, it’s fairly small as these things go and I was able to hop on a train and be in Virginia in only a few minutes. It also has an incredibly large range of museums and monuments mostly within walking distance of each other, ...