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Miyajima 2023
Posted on November 10, 2023 Leave a Comment
Miyajima, an island in Hiroshima Bay, captivated me in 2017 when I squeezed in a visit before the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park This year I stayed overnight. Miyajima is mostly mountains and jungle touched in many places, like so much of Japan, by centuries of Japanese spirituality and culture. Miyajima’s immense popularity as a tourist […]
Sigiriya
Posted on November 20, 2022 Leave a Comment
Some things you have to see Some things you have to join in their environment To get the full impact of their presence Their domination Their magnetism Their dwarfing of everything around them Unattainable from photograph or film If you haven’t breathed in its presence If you are not engulfed by its domination If you […]
Road Trip part two
Posted on May 5, 2022 Leave a Comment
From the Snowy mountains we proceeded to Canberra to pick up a passport, the only obligatory part of the trip. That done, plus a visit to Mount Ainslie for a panoramic view of the nation’s capital, we headed back to Victoria. After a one night stopover in Corowa to visit a few Rutherglen wineries we […]
Road Trip part one
Posted on May 3, 2022 Leave a Comment
On Good Friday we drove off, easterly towards a little bunch of places that occupy Australia’s south eastern tip, many hundreds of kilometres away from Melbourne, but then Australia is a massive country. After roughly five hours we reached Mallacoota, tranquil and lazy despite the activity of hundreds, possibly thousands, of campers. From there we […]
Weekend at Hesket
Posted on March 9, 2021 Leave a Comment
Labour Day long weekend at Hesket near Woodend and Macedon
Gerry Roberts 
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