I spent most of December 1990 in Europe after travelling for two months in southern Africa. I arrived at Zurich, courtesy of a cheap around-the-world fare booked with a former school friend who became a travel agent. Having met some young Swiss people in Zimbabwe, I stayed with them for a few days while I [...]
Good Friday holiday
The Herald Sun reports a Uniting Church cleric who believes Good Friday should be dumped as a public holiday in favor of something to do with reconciliation. That’s the sort of nonsense you come to expect from the Uniting Church. I have written before about how Australia’s public holidays need an overhaul, but I never [...]
Long weekend
I’m about to begin my first four-day weekend in nearly three years. The joy of working on a daily newspaper is such that we work most public holidays. I work every third Sunday, in lieu of which I have Monday off eight days later, ie a three-day weekend. But four days in a row has [...]
Melbourne
I managed to spend some time in Melbourne during my flying visit to Victoria. Melbourne is a great city and its public areas have improved immensely since I was a child 30 years ago. Docklands is now an attractive cosmopolitan residential and dining precinct where there was once shipping. I walked from my hotel in [...]
Home again
We left Falcon at 9am and arrived home in Kalgoorlie at 6pm. The nine-hour journey was much better than the 13-hour detour we had to endure on the way out because of the highway closure. I took some back roads this morning via Boddington, Pingelly, Brookton, Corrigin and Narembeen to Merredin. It might have been [...]
