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AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 2 Aug 2007 | Views [530] | Comments [1]
We drove for a good 2.5 hours to Hervey Bay, a surprisingly big city to the north of the Sunshine Coast. The place is nowhere near as nice as Noosa - in fact Noosa locals are currently opposing amalgamation of their council with neighbouring towns (yes, ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 1 Aug 2007 | Views [2296] | Comments [2]
Maybe we're obsessed with placenames, even names in general. In fairness, the Aussies give us good reason to do so. We've already written about the plain speaking clarity used in the naming of Australia's finest tourist spots. Visiting these places never ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 31 Jul 2007 | Views [1218]
As promised, we hit the beach this morning, just to see what a place named Surfers Paradise looks like on a winter's morning. The beaches are beautiful - white sand and deep blue water stretching in every direction - except behind us, where high rise ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Friday, 27 Jul 2007 | Views [677]
Leroy, our guide for our four hour trip around the rock at sunrise, explained in graphic and entertaining detail the spiritual significance of Uluru to the local Aboriginals. The park in which the rock is located along with slightly smaller versions ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 26 Jul 2007 | Views [733]
Uluru (arrogantly named Ayers Rock by exploring Europeans) was considered until recently the largest single skin monolith - rock to you and me - on Earth. Though it has recently been passed out by a competing Aussie rock, the scale and beauty of ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 24 Jul 2007 | Views [638]
We mentioned yesterday that our plan for today was to visit Cape Tribulation , the sole confluence of two world heritage sites on Earth. In fact, that doesn't even begin to illustrate the significance of this area. The Cape, so named by the intrepid ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Monday, 23 Jul 2007 | Views [510] | Comments [1]
The Low Isles are so named because when Captain Cook first saw them, the lowness of them struck him. He is also responsible for naming the Wooded Isle which is, eh, wooded. Great explorer. No wordsmith though. Anyhow, these Low Isles are just a ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 21 Jul 2007 | Views [442] | Comments [1]
Today we hired bicycles and took to the road, not for too far mind you, 'cause after a couple of miles we came across the Rainforest Habitat , a wildlife sanctuary located at the other end of Port Douglas. During the couple of hours there we met several ... Read more >
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HONG KONG | Sunday, 15 Jul 2007 | Views [558] | Comments [2]
Hong Kong has the world's only two-storey trams, a trip on one of which will cost you no more than 20 of your Euro cents. Given that it was Sunday, and the locals were in chill out mode by unusually having picnics on the streets, we took to the trams ... Read more >
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HONG KONG | Saturday, 14 Jul 2007 | Views [568]
What'll we do today? Em, he replied, how about a short trip over to see that 23 metre tall statue of a sitting Buddha. Two boat trips and a long bus trip (all packed into a mere two hours) later we reached said statue - took a few snaps, got an ice cream, ... Read more >
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HONG KONG | Friday, 13 Jul 2007 | Views [534]
The view from the peak of the highest mountain on Hong Kong island really can't be done justice in a photograph (although our effort is provided above). It truly presents a spectacular image of the city and surrounding areas and demonstrates simultaneously ... Read more >
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SINGAPORE | Wednesday, 11 Jul 2007 | Views [575]
Sir Thomas Raffles, of hotel fame from yesterday's posting, was the founder of the city of Singapore, and is given tribute with monuments and placenames throughout the whole of this small country. One of his achievements, apparently, was the establishment ... Read more >
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JAPAN | Thursday, 5 Jul 2007 | Views [561]
The picture above shows, what was until 6th August 1945, the Industrial Promotion Hall for the Hiroshima province (or prefecture as it is known locally). Since then it has become known coloquially and subsequently, officially, as the A-Bomb Dome .... Read more >
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JAPAN | Wednesday, 4 Jul 2007 | Views [572] | Comments [2]
Thank God for bus tours. Kyoto is too big to navigate in one day and it lashed rain. We left our umbrella at the second place we visited and didn't come across anywhere to buy a replacement until our last stop. So we got a bit wet. We really did ... Read more >
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JAPAN | Tuesday, 3 Jul 2007 | Views [550]
Our adventure today took us to Nara - a 45 minute Shinkansen trip from Kyoto - our current base. The very helpful lady in tourist information plotted a four hour walking tour for us, which we followed with primary school obedience, leading us through ... Read more >
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JAPAN | Monday, 2 Jul 2007 | Views [482]
The guidebook tells you that Kyoto doesn't make a great first impression - true. You land in the middle of an area that looks not entirely unlike - er, well, any suburb of Dublin you wouldn't go to unless you fell asleep on the Nitelink. Walking around ... Read more >
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JAPAN | Sunday, 1 Jul 2007 | Views [585]
How many temples and shrines can you see in a day? More than you'd think - more, in fact, than you'd want to think about. Nikko is a town to the north of Tokyo that did, in the past, house a Buddhist training centre, and retains to this day some wonderful ... Read more >
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JAPAN | Saturday, 30 Jun 2007 | Views [772]
The Asakusa area of Tokyo is famous for its Buddhist Temple and its buzzing markets - not a bad way to start the day then. Better still, rather than take the train back downtown, we were able to take a river cruise south along the Sumidagawa River which ... Read more >
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JAPAN | Friday, 29 Jun 2007 | Views [521] | Comments [1]
After a late breakfast we decided the take the metro to Ueno, the biggest park in Tokyo. Like Phoenix Park, Ueno is the home of the city's zoo. This was our first port of call. Half way during our visit it started to lash rain. Instead of going back ... Read more >
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JAPAN | Thursday, 28 Jun 2007 | Views [576] | Comments [1]
Today was a chill out day - one week exactly from the wedding we decided to do no more than wander through Tokyo. The heat, however, meant that this wander was anything but chilling. We got to see the Imperial Palace (grounds) and the Japanese Parliament ... Read more >
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