This post is about opposites. Because it's occurred to me that there are lots of opposites in travel. But let me take you there step by step ...Whenever it starts to warm up here, I ponder whether or not I'll survive another hot West Aussie summer. I used to love the hot weather (and I'm talking at …
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Your coldest ever travel experience …
Aussies are obsessed with talking about weather. Perth people like me are obsessed about complaining about the cold, mostly because it is rarely cold here (never below freezing) and partly because we really feel the cold because we have no idea about heating our houses properly or wearing the right …
Picture pirouette: Snowy bikes in Kemi, Finland
It is cold in Perth today. (It's cold all this week. And I don't like it!) But if I dig through my photo albums I am reminded that you can't really claim "it's cold" when the temperature never goes below freezing.Frozen bicycles in Kemi, Finnish LaplandThis was Boxing Day in Kemi, a town in Finnish …