Yes, this picture is from Vietnam, but I've chosen it to illustrate my Australia Day post, because - look carefully - doesn't it look like a map of Australia? Admittedly parts of the east coast seem to have dropped into the ocean and Tasmania doesn't even exist (see note below), but it's a …
Australia
Where’s my kayak: Canada, here I come!
I love the Google maps app on my iPhone, and I often use it to get around here at home - and also used it to look up directions when I was overseas earlier this year. When a friend sent me her address recently on Vancouver Island, I popped it in to Maps so I could see where her house was in relation …
Norway really IS cool, but so is Australia
So it seems that for once I'm a day ahead of the news instead of a day behind. Did I not in fact say, just yesterday, that Norway was cool? (Note that I am not cool, and don't even know my reindeer from my elk, but Norway most definitely IS cool). You see, the United Nations agrees with me. …