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We celebrate and enjoy *sporting highlights* *holiday highlights* but how often do you hear about *business highlights*? Each month I notate a *Journey Jottings highlight*, which I summarize on a single sheet, so at year’s end I can view Journey Jottings’ year at a glance. July’s *highlight*? The development of a new product line ~ our […]
Artist Marc Lacaze unexpectedly died, Tuesday 9th August 2011. Today, farewells are being said at a service in Paris, where he had a studio. A mutual friend, Debbie, introduced me to Marc’s work. His love of travel, and unique way of recording his adventures, struck an immediate chord. Decorated envelopes adorned with postage stamps, calligraphy and his […]
Australia Photo ~ Swamp Paperbark Trees, Australia Paperbark trees are so quintessentially Australian, with their peeling trunks. There’s a swampy area I walk past most days. This week I actually stopped to photograph it 🙂
The Australian rainforest is an absolute delight. Last week we took off for a couple of days to go up into the rainforest of the Lamington National Park on the Queensland/NSW border. We walked the Morans Falls track, just 4.6km on our first day. The path takes you down through a subtropical rainforest of booyongs and brush box adorned […]
Australia Photo ~ Bush Stone Curlews, Queensland, Australia If you hear a mournful wailing sound in the night, these are the birds responsible for the eerie call. Curlews are nocturnal ground feeding birds, which during the day shelter where their plummage will best camouflage them. This family of birds have taken to resting in the grass just outside our […]
This month’s themed travelling tales from our Facebook Page is Worst Travel Stories This time last year we started a monthly ‘travelling tales’ feature that’s posted on our Facebook Page. Its a free-for-all where everyone shares their travel stories ~ focused on a theme. Because the first was ‘Favourite Travel Tales’, and this is the year old anniversary, […]
Australia Photo ~ Palm & Boab Trees in Anzac Square, Brisbane Anzac Square is in the centre of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Associating bottle trees with the Kimberleys in Western Australia, when I first saw these boabs in Brisbane I felt there was an in-congruency. What I didn’t realize was their symbolic significance. The boab trees commemorate the Queensland Light Horse […]
1. The first time… I read a map, was a mud map my mother drew for me as an adventure to take the dog for a walk across the fields, through the spinney, around the edge of the yellow king-cup filled marsh, and up to the woodland that ran along the top of the ridge. 2. […]
Australia Photo ~ Across the Bay – Evening Light Dawn and dusk are such peaceful times ~ This is the view looking east, through the eucalypt trees, across Moreton Bay, towards Stradbroke Island, as the sun sets behind us. The end of another day at the office.
The Dance of the 7 Travel Links The travel blogging fraternity is abuzz reminiscing over their mixed bag of gone, but not forgotten, blog posts. Tripbase has instigated a 7 Links game of tag where once nominated by a fellow travel blogger you delve into your blog archives to select: – Your most beautiful post – Your most popular post […]
