Australia
Sydney will you marry me?
I loooove Australia. Every time I visit it feels like coming home. And in my opinion Sydney is the jewel in its crown and as close to perfect a city as you can get. Any city that esteems an opera house its cultural and architectural apogee and where the life criss-crosses above, below and alongside a waterway is always going …
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Another day in Singapore
Well it turns out I DID get a second day of remote working after all – though not by design… My day started well, waking up on time, tired but acclimatising to the timezone, easily hailing a taxi for the airport, having the friendliest cabbie give me a driving tour of Singapore pointing out the 50-storey surf board shaped hotel and …
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G'day and welcome to evensong sport!
The single biggest disappointment of the trip, I have to say was Choral Evensong at Sydney Cathedral. It was mostly funny – but really, it shouldn’t be about entertainment so it doesn’t really make up for it! First off, in stark contrast to the catholic cathedral near my hostel, there is no atmosphere of prayer or stillness or quiet that …
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Brisbane
What an enjoyable day in Brisbane I’m having (I’m on my lonesome so I’m moblogging as I go). It started with a very peaceful sleep followed by the luxury of a home shower, my first of the trip, the cleanest I’ve felt since leaving my own flat nearly two weeks ago. So Gann and Em live south and a bit …
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We are merely the stars tennis balls
…struck and bandied which way please them. I am reminded of that quote as I ponder Why does fate — or karma or whatever — have a habit of doing this? Why does a day of highs have to be followed by a colossal low? This morning, I lost my wallet. I’d rather my wallet than my phone or laptop …
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