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 …
T-shirt pirouette
T-shirt travel: Stocking up in St Petersburg
It's (almost) a whole month since I last mentioned Russia, so here I go again. I actually remember very well when I bought this T-shirt, at a stall outside near the Peter & Paul Fortress in St Petersburg. After almost three weeks on the Trans-Siberian and without access to a washing machine in …
T-shirt travel: The Endeavour returns to Fremantle
H.M. Bark Endeavour was launched in Fremantle in 1993 Back when I was ... well, a lot younger than now, my father and I went down to Fremantle, the port town of Perth, to watch the launch of the replica of the H.M. Bark Endeavour - a replica of the ship which brought Captain Cook down here to …