JAPAN AND OTHER PLACES
1970’s ABC NEWSROOM – update 2026
My English teacher was horrified at the thought of me becoming a News Journalist, warning me I’d be entering a den of rough drunken men! She probably read a lot of Hemingway, but didn’t approve of his lifestyle. She warned I would end up an unmarried alcoholic, probably with a bad reputation! I don’t think…
JAPAN’S Gamagori Classic hotel – a spy and baseball
Also staying at the hotel was team catcher, coach and WW2 wartime spy, Moe Berg. You might be familiar with him through the book and the film ‘The Catcher was a Spy’. Moe had already explored Japan a few years earlier, and returned with the team in ’34. The tour aimed to promote peace, good will and…
ON THE ROAD AGAIN – PART 4 – update June 2026
The magnificent Kalbarri Skywalk, also known as Kaju Yatka, was worth our effort in detouring. Two cantilevered platforms jut out from cliffs, 100 metres above the million year old formed river gorges. One platform is 25 metres long, the other 17 metres. You can see through the floors of both.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN – part 3 update June 2026
Most visitors are in caravans or tents, spread out along the Wooramel River with their own campfire pits. It’s a mixed group – grey nomads (travelling retirees), families, and young travellers.than I’ve seen travelling in these parts in previous years. For campers there are amenity blocks with toilets and hot showers, some created from old…
ON THE ROAD AGAIN – Part 2 – June 2026 update
full of cactus! And in the middle, an almost complete skeleton of a whale! Do they do whale watching in Mexico? For a nano second, I thought I’d been transported there!
ON THE ROAD AGAIN! update June 2026
It’s winter in Western Australia, and on this day five years ago I was on the road, tapping out a story for my blog on my iPad, perched on my lap in the front passenger seat of our Toyota Landcruiser.
Hiroshima – my return – November 2025
The last thing I expected to see at Hiroshima’s newly revamped railway station last November was a giant leopard appearing to jump out at me from an overhanging 3D bill board! I don’t know if he is a fixture there – but at the time I was visiting, the leopard was the centrepiece of an…
Trekking Tōkaidō Edo style! Update May 2026
One man in the parade puzzled me. He seemed to be playing the role of an important Lord, but he didn’t look very Japanese. A mystery I didn’t solve. Perhaps if I’d shouted out “Gidday, who are you?” in my best Aussie accent, he might have responded! He was doing a good job of being…
NEW YEAR, PLACES, & PEOPLE -Update May 2026
I’m resolved to hang on to my zest for life for as long as possible, moving forward the only way I know how. I used to love climbing mountains. Past that now. Though old age is a mountain in itself. And I am still on the uphill slope! Slower in my old age, but with…
AUSTRALIA – THE RUGGED GREAT CENTRAL ROAD – update
The Great Central Road is one of the last challenging outback routes in Australia, stretching between the remote northern goldfields of Western Australia and the mighty sandstone monolith Uluru in the Northern Territory.
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