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Melbourne 2025 September

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

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Melbourne 2025 August

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

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Melbourne 2025 July

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

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Greece and Türkiye

Starting from the apartment, the tram to Southern Cross was so packed, I had to wait for a second one to come along. With the hour delay in departure, for some reason I delusionally thought I could still make my connection. The in flight entertainment did not offer subtitles but I was determined to watch

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Canberra and Sydney

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

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