Month: January 2016
Summer Weather Oddities
It’s been a hot few days in Melbourne,. The temperature today is 36C and forecast to be 37C tomorrow. It was 37C on Christmas day and a few days earlier, the temperature reached 41.5C. My friend, Janet Morris, told me that today in Minneapolis, it was -15F. That’s about -26C so there is a 50C […]
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A Week in Creswick With The Girls
This week we had the pleasure of taking Cathy and her girls away for four nights to the new RACV resort at Creswick. This was previously a Novotel property with a golf course and all the associated amenities of this type of resort. It’s very nice, although it did lack a few facilities for children, […]
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Travel – How the World is Getting Smaller
As a keen traveller, I am interested in finding amazing places around the world and planning how to get there. Maps are an essential way of visualising spatial relationships and geographic locations for travel. The map above was created in 1914 by the famous cartographer John George Bartholomew. He was a was a British cartographer and […]
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New Year Musings
Now that the dust has settled after Christmas and the New Year has begun, it feels as though our lives are back to normal again. It was wonderful having all our family around on Christmas Day. Because of the hot weather, Christmas lunch for us was a variation on the traditional Christmas meal. We […]
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