I am fascinated by Captain James Cook , and the footprints he's left on New Zealand history. Cook was the first European to widely ex...

...So I'm back from my second trip across the ditch to Australia , a lovely 5 days or so in shiny Melbourne . We had a rather quick urba...

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...Hurrah, it's holiday time and we're off to the outback. Well, OK, actually to a city of 4 million people, not "Crocodile...

Yes, it's winter in half the world, but hot and sticky summer in the other half. So it's only about the equivalent of the mid-80sF h...

Burning the Midnight Oil, 20 years on It's hard to remember what a breath of fresh air the music of Midnight Oil seemed like on the Ame...

Notes from Sydney, Part 3 Ah well, a bit disappointed not to have more comments on my Sydney travelogue to date (I know, I'm an attentio...

Notes from Sydney, Part 2 One of the things I wanted to do during our trip to Sydney was, ironically enough, get out of Sydney a little bit...

Notes from Sydney, Part 1 ...All right mates, we're back from our Australian holiday and I'm ready to write something about our tre...

Shrimp in the barbie, mate? ...So because we haven't done any major globetrotting traveling in like, a whole six months, we've decid...

A few words in praise of Men At Work . There's certain songs I can listen to a zillion times and they never get old -- Bowie's ...