Month: January 2022
We Are Home From Our Canberra Trip
We arrived back home from our trip to Canberra yesterday afternoon. It was a warm day and it became hotter, the closer we came to Melbourne. We are in for a run of very hot days of over 30C for the next week. That’s a temperature in the high 90s to 100F. Continuing to get […]
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Back Water Towns and Some History
We are heading back home to Melbourne, stopping again in Albury tonight. Travelling short distances like this each day gives us plenty of time in which to potter along and explore some history. After leaving Canberra, we detoured off the main highway to stop in Yass to see its historic railway station. Jill used to […]
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Some of Canberra’s Oldest and Newest Sites
I started my day with a coffee with author Russ Morison who has just published a book about the RAASC in Vietnam (Sustaining the Fight). He has incorporated some notes from my website into his book. Normally, books like this are written about the fighting units in wars and only rarely do those units, like […]
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Exploring More of Canberra
We started our fourth day in Canberra by doing a drive around Lake Burley Griffin which is the centre point of Canberra City’s master plan. We stopped at a number of points as we pottered on our way around most of the lake. Our first stop was at Telstra Tower on Black Mountain only to […]
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We Visited Two Outstanding Galleries
Our plan today was to visit two galleries – one renowned and the other spectacular (but away from the main bunch of the top Canberra attractions). Our first stop of the day was a visit to the renowned Australian National Gallery which houses a large collection of eclectic artworks by both by Australian and International […]
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I Had A Special day at the Australian War Memorial
As a veteran, I am always interested to visit the Australian War Memorial here in Canberra. Every time that I visit, I find something new to see. It is a wonderful memorial with so much to reflect upon as to how our armed services have contributed to Australia’s history. Charles Bean, Australia’s official World War […]
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We Have Completed Our Drive to Canberra
The twin cities of Albury and Wodonga sit on both sides of the Murray River – the largest inland waterway in Australia. They are modern cities that form a large rural centre with all the advantages of both a country town and a modern city. Most of this area of southern New South Wales is […]
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Back Roads to Albury
Today, we are on our way to Canberra, the nation’s capital, on our first trip outside Victoria since May last year. With borders now opened, we are excited to get away and see some different scenery. We preferred to drive on some of the more interesting back roads rather than go straight up the highway […]
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Victorian Schools – An Accidental History
On our travels around the state of Victoria, we have come across many historic school buildings in cities, towns and isolated bush locations. Looking through some of my photos, I realised that unknowingly,I have been recording something of a history of school buildings and philosophy of education. Every little town obviously had a a school […]
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I Have Made The Same Mistake Twice in the One Week!
Last Monday, Jill and I decided to break out of Melbourne and travel east to the little town of Noojee, for lunch, at a quant old pub and bar called ‘The Toolshed’. Noojee is a town in the Gippsland region of Victoria. It’s a tiny town of about 160 people. It would have seen its […]
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