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Brisbane Weather: What Happened to Spring?

BobinOz — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:05:44 +0000

As the kid’s two-week spring school holidays begin today, I am left asking myself “What happened to spring?” It was only 19 days ago that I presented my five day weather backcast. It was in this post that I admitted my “Winter turns to spring at the flick of a switch” theory was left in [...]

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Brisbane Weather: What Happened to Spring?

Melbourne: Now the World’s Most Liveable City

BobinOz — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:25:10 +0000

It was only in March of this year that I was reporting the latest Economist Intelligence Unit’s liveability rankings. At the time, there were very few changes, although Melbourne had slipped into second position from being third the previous two years. Image courtesy of vermininc You can see how all Australian cities fared in [...]

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Melbourne: Now the World’s Most Liveable City

From Hobart to Darwin

BobinOz — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:27:30 +0000

Anyone who has read the last two or three posts here during the past week, will know that I have travelled to one of the most southerly points in Australia during the middle of winter. As a result of that, I have spent a week enjoying some of the coldest weather Australia has to offer. [...]

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From Hobart to Darwin

Tasmania: What’s the point?

BobinOz — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:45:35 +0000

Yes, exactly! What is the point of moving all the way to Australia and then going to Tasmania? Those were the shockingly short-sighted numbskull thoughts that went through my head when considering emigrating to Oz. Why move all the way to go from one cold place to another, I would wonder. I now eat my [...]

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Tasmania: What’s the point?

Tasmania, Australia: A Quick Peek

BobinOz — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:58:12 +0000

It seems a while since I last posted here on this blog, and it is! Last Wednesday I was explaining how cold it was in Hobart and also bemoaning the slow Internet connection, which was taking (seemingly) 15 minutes to open a page. Well, we left Hobart, drove through Brighton, Bagdad, Kempton, Melton Mowbray and [...]

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Tasmania, Australia: A Quick Peek

Australian Weather Forecast: Cold

BobinOz — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:37:14 +0000

This morning, way earlier than I care to think about, I dragged my sorry butt out of bed, packed some bags into the boot of the car, and together with my wife and daughter, headed towards Brisbane airport. Our ultimate destination? The furthest (south), therefore most southernest, (almost) coldest, (probably) and potentially quaintest, (we shall [...]

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Australian Weather Forecast: Cold

Bondi Beach: Australia’s Busiest?

BobinOz — Fri, 20 May 2011 06:11:45 +0000

With less than two weeks to go before winter here in Australia, time for a little escapism. This weekend I will be drawing the blue solar blanket across the top of my swimming pool as I put that little fun spot into hibernation for the winter. But that doesn’t stop us going to the beach [...]

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Bondi Beach: Australia’s Busiest?

Camping by the Beach in Coolum

BobinOz — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:20:29 +0000

As you know, this weekend we (that’s the BobinOz’s and the BeninOz’s) took the opportunity to go camping for the first time since April last year. On that occasion we went to North Stradbroke Island and had a fantastic weekend. I think I wrote three or four posts about that one, if you haven’t read [...]

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Camping by the Beach in Coolum

Melbourne Moves Into Second Place…

BobinOz — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:58:41 +0000

The latest results for the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Liveability Poll 2011 are out, how exciting is that? Well, not at all really. Why? Because, by and large, there’s very little change from last year’s Economist Intelligence Unit’s Liveability Poll. So, maybe I don’t need to write a post today at all, all I need do [...]

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Melbourne Moves Into Second Place…

Hamilton, Suburb of Brisbane. Very Nice….

BobinOz — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:40:19 +0000

We wanted to go out for the day on Saturday, but we didn’t want to go far. So we did and we didn’t. We went to Hamilton, a suburb very close to the city and probably the most expensive area for property in all of Brisbane. Well, it is by the river. First we took [...]

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Hamilton, Suburb of Brisbane. Very Nice….