Australia

Cycads in Australia: Your Quick Guide to Cycadophyta.

16 December 2011 Life in Australia

As I said on Wednesday, Australia isn’t so hot on real Christmas trees. But we have plenty of these things and I find them quite fascinating. What are they? They are called cycads, and you won’t find them growing in Germany, France, Denmark, Belgium or Great Britain where most of the world’s Christmas trees are [...]

Snake Bite Dangers in Australia: What To do….

7 November 2011 Australia's Bad Things

It would be wrong of me to write articles such as Australian Snakes and Death: Continued, if I wasn’t also prepared to write about snakes when a fatality occurs. I have always defended snakes and played down the dangers they present to the residents of Australia. With good reason too; anyone who has read that [...]

What I Missed in Australia

4 November 2011 Entertainment Australia

The Queen. Of course, as I was out of the country, the Queen was in it. She was on her 16th visit to Australia. I’m sure both here in Australia and back in the UK, the news has been full of stories about her tour. So I am going to zoom forward to her very [...]

Where On Earth Is BobinOz?

31 October 2011 Life in Australia

Okay, now even I am worried about myself. I would have hoped that by now I could have made some kind of inter-web connection thingy, so that I could have brought you my first ever live post as BobinThailand. But this is not live. I preloaded this post into my WordPress schedule before I left [...]

Holidaying From Australia: It’s BobinThailand!

24 October 2011 Entertainment Australia

I imagine it must have been about 6 to 8 weeks ago we decided to have our first international holiday from Australia. Of all the countries in all the world, we chose Thailand. As you almost certainly know, the capital of Thailand is Bangkok, and that is where we flew in to on Thursday of [...]

Rush Hour Traffic in Brisbane

25 July 2011 Life in Australia

On Friday, 2 October 2009, I got into my car at five o’clock to drive home. As it was five o’clock, and as it was a Friday, I was pretty sure it qualified for rush hour. So I stuck a camera to the windscreen of my car and decided to make a video of it. [...]

Australian Weather Forecast: Cold

11 July 2011 Australia's Places

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 [...]

10 Reasons Why NOT to Move to Australia

1 July 2011 Australia's Bad Things

As you saw from Wednesday’s post, the OECD has found Australia the best country in the world to live in. But that is not an opinion shared by everybody. For some time I have been working on a post called ’10 Reasons Why NOT to Move to Australia’. When I say “working on”, what I [...]