Kyoto By The Sea: Amanohashidate and Ine
20 March 2019. The houses are lined along the shore like soldiers, creating an organic seam that joins the sea …
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Love In The Time Of Corona – finding our way home
We got in by the skin of our teeth, but we’re not home yet. Our journey began February 8th with …
Workin’ Man Blues – daily working life in Rishikesh, India
10 Feb-10 Mar 2019 and 10 Feb-9 Mar 2020 Rishikesh, India India’s unemployment rate of about 7% is lower than …
Rishikesh Redux: baggage and street vendors
10 Feb-10 Mar 2019 and 10 Feb-9 Mar 2020 Rishikesh, India Twice she asked us. Would you like to take …
A Soul Dyed With Colour – India’s Rishikesh
10 Feb-11 Mar 2019 Well this is sweet. We’re in a huge airport lounge with everything we could want – …
Ancient Grace: the cathedral and town of Chartres
9 Feb 2019 I’m standing on the station platform. The train doors are closing and are more than half shut …
Paris is always a good idea. Stories of a brief winter sojourn
5-8 February 2019 In December 1973, when I was 23 years old, I left Australia for the first time. The …
Winter In The City of Light – ordinary and extraordinary Paris
5-8 February 2019. I’d returned from a solo seven-week journey to Japan and China in early June 2018. The summer …
Treasure Islands: Hong Kong’s Lamma Island and Cheung Chau
9 June 2018 I never forgot Cheung Chau. Back in 1978 it was one of the most exotic places I’d …
. . . . For All The Tea In China! A tea plantation, a town, and a village in Yangshuo
4-6 June 2018 Legend has it that a few thousand years ago, somewhere in China, a cocoon fell from a …
War of the Three Kingdoms – like an action movie only live!
1 June 2018 The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, it must divide. Thus it has ever been. These …
Yangtze River Cruise: don’t get your hopes up!
1-3 June 2018. We were warned that the Yangtze River is very industrialised and not to expect lush scenery or …
Quick Change Artists – the ravishing Sichuan Opera in Chengdu.
29 May 2018. She’s standing in the aisle of the theatre a few levels up from the stage. She’s facing …
Pandering to your love of PANDAS! Now that I have your attention . . . . .
By all accounts Chengdu, the fifth largest city in China with a population of 14 million, has a laid-back ambiance …
