Australia

Australians use the meteorological calendar to mark their seasons so in theory, September was spring. I would like to counter that September bears no resemblance to spring. OK, there were fewer days I wore my heavy down coat, but I went out without some kind of down coat only twice. Cold, rainy, and windy are […]

I’ve enjoyed my U3A photography excursions. Here’s one from the Botanic Garden. A woman in my Friday walking group suggested that we train out to Little River and go to the You Yang range. She thought it was 3km from the train to the trail head so that seemed like a great day. The next

Jet lag killed me the first few days back from California. Yes, I do want to go to sleep at 7pm thank you very much. This month as jammed packed with activities and adventures. I’ve had FOMO for the Firelight Festival for years. I’d see social media videos and want to go. We went with

I completed my AU state/territory bingo card by finally visiting Canberra. The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex was a bit of a pilgrimage for DH2. We watched the largest disk re-orient itself and enjoyed playing the immensity of the dishes. Since I’m reading “Australian Politics for Dummies,” I was happy to visit Parliament to see

U3A adventures continued with multiple trips to Williamstown courtesy of the walking groups and I volunteered to bring the wine for the Wine Appreciation group this month. My idea was to bring California wines but there wasn’t enough of a variety so my theme was “countries I’ve been to in the last 2 years.” In