This old, worn T-shirt (almost seven years old, I see now) is a souvenir from a rather unusual trip. I was living in Germany at the time, heard that Australia was playing in a short one-day cricket tournament in, of all places, Amsterdam, and drove over there for the weekend.The Dutch, more than any …
T-shirt pirouette
T-shirt travel: 2002 World Cup fever in Seoul, South Korea
Germany wasn't the first place where my T-shirt travels started to reflect FIFA World Cup fever, oh no, that began four years earlier when I lived in Japan during the 2002 World Cup. Back then I was utterly ignorant about the event and booked a holiday to Seoul during the week of the finals (if …
T-shirt travel: Slovakia is getting tourist-savvy
This T-shirt is an exception to my usual T-shirt travels, because it came to me some time after I'd left Slovakia - when my Slovak friends came out to Australia to stay last year. And the interesting thing is I think that's the only way I could have got it, because back when I lived in Slovakia - …