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  • The hotel at the airport

    A field of amber points interspersed with green and yellow, lights momentarily obscured by the aluminium and carbon fibre flying beasts that roost within them. The flickering of warning strobes from the scurrying vehicles servicing the sky bound cousins. We are staying at the Rydges Hotel Sydney Airport, right across from the International Terminal. There…

  • North Ryde Station

    North Ryde station is closing for at least seven months at the end of September for conversion into a metro station. Today was probably my last ride on it until then. I can’t believe how many hours, days, months and years I spent riding to there and back in the course of my work.

  • Wild Ropes and Taronga Zoo

    One dose of high wire acts wasn’t enough for Alex and B. Today it was another zoo and another tree tops adventure at Wild Ropes in Taronga Zoo. This time there was no pressure on me to join them and we bought zoo entry tickets as well, catching the ferry across from Circular Quay and…

  • Fitzroy Falls and Tree Climbs

    Clipped to a steel cable I looked six metres down, struggling to get the zigzag planks to stand still long enough to let me cross. It was only the first of ten. It’s school holidays and B rarely wants to stay home. After agonising over a range of options we’ve headed south. I’m driving, a…

  • Wings Over Illawarra 2018

    South of Sydney, only about forty minutes away, is the city of Wollongong. Despite the proximity to Australia’s major aviation gateway, Wollongong has the Illawarra Regional Airport, built by the air force to defend the city’s steel works. Until recently, when new starter Jetgo began flying their Embraer jets to Brisbane and Essendon in Melbourne,…

  • Qantas to retire the 747, Queen of the Skies

    In some very sad news, Qantas today announced that it will retire the last of its Boeing 747 aircraft by the end of 2020 and replace them with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. Now I like the 787. My flights with them have mostly been smooth, the electronically shaded window mean that I can always see out and…

  • Kites, cars and apples

    Time to head back home to Sydney. Just a few jumps of the trampoline first, the along the other side of the Alpine Way to Jindabyne. The autumn lake scenery was beautiful, the gright yellow poplar leaves a different shade of gold to the grasslands around them. We stop at the Snowy Hydro Discovery Centre…

  • The sports report from Thredbo

    Enough travel, we just stayed put. A walk down the stairs to book a tennis court and play a haphazard game of Alex’s favourite sport. Then some bouncing on the trampolines followed by Alex and B riding the bobsled. There was an interruption for lunch, followed by more bobsled rides. If only we had brought…

  • At the top of Australia

    The valley is dark, the drifting clouds tinged salmon, our feet are sore and we are finished travelling anywhere today. We slept in longer than planned, but the valleys were still threaded with fog when we began our drive. In an amazing piece of synchrocity, as we pulled out of our Corryong motel my random…

  • Smoky mountain sunset

    We haven’t escaped the smoke, even in Victoria.