Tasmanian Times
Travel
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956Flying in the Face of Old Age (5): Counting the Miles and The Troubles
“Nobody knows the troubles I’ve seen. Nobody knows my sorrows.” Gershwin 1935 ‘Porgy and Bess’ Chapter Five Counting the Miles and The...
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Flying in the Face of Old Age (4): I Hear The Call of the Road Today
“Life is like riding a bicycle…in order to keep your balance you must keep moving…” Albert Einstein c.1900 Chapter Four I Hear...
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Larissa does New York … and why it matters
Rodney Croome … The New Out-of-Towners In its most recent edition, the New Yorker is clearly having a behind- the-hand giggle at...
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Here comes Jessica
Try this for a movie plot. A girl turns a deaf ear to the naysayers and upholders of male prejudice, pursues a...
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The Icelandic volcano overdue to erupt … A close encounter
This is the story of a close encounter with the Icelandic volcano, Katla. Katla’s much smaller near neighbour to the west, Eyjafjallajokull,...
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Where James Cook died
ON the jagged shoreline of Kealakekua Bay — a small, beautiful inlet on the western coast of Hawaii’s Big Island* — sits...
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Tourism on the teat. When will it end?
The Tourism Industry? It’s always held out as the way forward. Perhaps it is. But is it immune from making unreasonable demands...
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Travels without a donkey: Panama
AFTER Bogota we both felt that Panama City would seem pretty tame, but it turned out to be the reverse. This place...
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Travels without a donkey: Bogota
AFTER 11 hours on a plane from Madrid we bounce down in Bogota. To get a real taxi you need to get...
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Virgin Blue…an invitation “ to tell it like it is”
Having flown Mackay to Hobart a week or so ago and from Hobart to Melbourne return on Virgin Blue last weekend, I...
