Gold Coast

Our Tenth Full Year Living in Australia: 2017 thumbnail

I’ve actually lived in Australia for 11 years now, as at 14 November 2018, just one week ago as I write this. Each year though, I come up with a short video, around five minutes, of each of the ‘full years’, as in calendar years, I’ve lived in Australia. So my first full year was [...]

A Burleigh Heads Break for the School Holidays thumbnail

I would have told you about this on Monday, but I didn’t, because I was enjoying the day off on account that it was the Queen’s Birthday. Of course, it wasn’t really the Queen’s Birthday, but then I expect you knew that, assuming you have read When is the Queen’s Birthday? If you haven’t read [...]

Mt Tamborine

Mount Tamborine is known as the ‘Green behind the Gold’ because it’s very green and is just behind the Gold Coast, which is very gold. Sort of makes sense, doesn’t it? It’s one of the wonders of Australia that so many of our golden beaches on our almost never ending coastline have stunning and lush [...]

Sydney beach

I’ve been to many Australian beaches, each time I have been struck by how ‘untouched’ they are. It’s very noticeable, it’s always been apparent to me. One of the words that would always pop into my head would be ‘unspoilt’. But in all this time and all those beaches there was one thing that I [...]

Tallebudgera

It was only a couple of weeks ago that I ran a reprint of one of my Australia and New Zealand magazine articles, that one was called Fun for Kids. I’m running another reprint today, mainly because I’m getting a bit behind with them, and this one is about even more fun for kids, not [...]

Robber

Like anywhere else in the world, Queensland, indeed Australia, has crime. We have murders, we have robberies, we have bashings, yes, that’s what we tend to call them here and we have… I know, let’s do a list. 10 serious crimes in Australia: Homicide Assault Sexual assault Robbery Unlawful entry with intent Motor vehicle theft [...]

sun

It was only two weeks ago today that I was writing my seventh traditional middle of the winter post in which I compare London Summers and Brisbane Winters. And that post was written just a few days after Brisbane had recorded its coldest day for 103 years. So, time for an update on that. Here’s [...]

Festival

One of the joys of moving to a new country is discovering new places. I’ve been here over six years now and you’d probably think I would have run out of the places to see that are still within a relatively short driving distance for me. Not true. Jacobs Well I didn’t know Jacob was [...]