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China 2025 – April 16
Posted on May 11, 2025 Leave a Comment
Waiting to board my flight, I reflect that six weeks earlier I had never heard of Xiamen Airlines. Or our first destination Xiamen either, a port city on China’s south-eastern coast just across from Taiwan. Friends wondered aloud if we were wise to entrust our lives to a provincial airline. But Xiamen Airlines ticked a […]
High Country
Posted on November 18, 2024 Leave a Comment
The first Tuesday in November, a Melbourne holiday for an iconic horse race, is an opportunity for those of us not champing at the bit for race day to take Monday off and enjoy a four-day weekend. Hello high country, the Victorian Alps, a 400-kilometre drive from home. A rule about trekking in hill country […]
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 […]
Gerry Roberts 
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