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longlines: Richmond, Queensland
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For those interested in travel reading and writing. Notes, photos and articles from Europe, America, the Middle East, Australia and the Pacific will be posted here. All comments are welcome. Monday, March 2, 2015. Birdlife Lake Fred Tritton Richmond Queensland. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Each time I stop in Richmond I promise myself that once. I have more time, or. B a better car, or. C the weather cools down. Coaches carrying miners to the...
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longlines: Fullarton River North West Queensland
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For those interested in travel reading and writing. Notes, photos and articles from Europe, America, the Middle East, Australia and the Pacific will be posted here. All comments are welcome. Sunday, February 15, 2015. Fullarton River North West Queensland. Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere. Http:/ www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/river. Bridge Over Fullarton River North West Queensland. My grandmother and my mother both loved rubies.
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longlines: February 2009
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For those interested in travel reading and writing. Notes, photos and articles from Europe, America, the Middle East, Australia and the Pacific will be posted here. All comments are welcome. Wednesday, February 4, 2009. Al Ain Aerobatic Air Show 2009. Al Ain Aerobatic Show in the United Arab Emirates. Was held the week before the winds came howling down from Europe sweeping dust and haze before them. People without young children went in search of alternative viewing spots – but to no avail. Th...Drew a ...
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longlines: February 2010
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For those interested in travel reading and writing. Notes, photos and articles from Europe, America, the Middle East, Australia and the Pacific will be posted here. All comments are welcome. Friday, February 19, 2010. Early Morning in Delhi – encounters with Vishnu and Lakshmi. At the same time Hitler was on the rise in Europe, and Europe and America’s emergence from the Great Depression was not following the optimistic arc predicted. There was political violence and famine throughout much of t...Mr Birl...
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longlines: December 2009
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For those interested in travel reading and writing. Notes, photos and articles from Europe, America, the Middle East, Australia and the Pacific will be posted here. All comments are welcome. Thursday, December 31, 2009. Pompeii 1,930 years after the event. Pompeii is a dead city. In the cobbled streets, the open plazas, the Anfiteatro, there is no echo of past lives, just the tranquillity of a cemetery long abandoned. Frescoes shimmer behind a veil of ages. The eruption that buried Pompeii. Over the foll...
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longlines: Cloncurry North West Queensland
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For those interested in travel reading and writing. Notes, photos and articles from Europe, America, the Middle East, Australia and the Pacific will be posted here. All comments are welcome. Monday, February 23, 2015. Cloncurry North West Queensland. Cloncurry: Meld of Architectural styles and eras. It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”. 8213; Ursula K Le Guin, The Left Hand Of Darkness. Cloncurry Post Office Hotel. My reasons were practical. Howeve...
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longlines: March 2010
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For those interested in travel reading and writing. Notes, photos and articles from Europe, America, the Middle East, Australia and the Pacific will be posted here. All comments are welcome. Monday, March 8, 2010. Lal Kot, Qila Rai Pithora (Pithorogarh), Qutub Complex – these are more than a litany of names. They are a summation of over twelve hundred years of the history of one place. Century B.C. until the Mughals left in the 19. Century. Their remains. 8211; the detritus of empires. The ghost of Anang...
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longlines: May 2012
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For those interested in travel reading and writing. Notes, photos and articles from Europe, America, the Middle East, Australia and the Pacific will be posted here. All comments are welcome. Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Day Dreaming in Morpeth. In New South Wales probably never had a hope of becoming the great port that its rival in the 1800s, Newcastle, eventually achieved. Which provided accommodation and refreshment to the sailors, bullockies and other tradesmen who frequented the town. The Newcastle and H...
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longlines: May 2011
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For those interested in travel reading and writing. Notes, photos and articles from Europe, America, the Middle East, Australia and the Pacific will be posted here. All comments are welcome. Thursday, May 26, 2011. Almost Home, Kakadu revisited. Brisbane Flood January 13 2011. Lotus in Flower Kakadu. T Darwin blog was published on Nove. Mber 24, 2010 I. I would have had a dramatic lifestyle change and be. G within a couple of hours drive of the home I had left many years ago. E of the wettest on. Es of a...
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longlines: June 2010
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For those interested in travel reading and writing. Notes, photos and articles from Europe, America, the Middle East, Australia and the Pacific will be posted here. All comments are welcome. Tuesday, June 8, 2010. This “rude brick campanile” is the bell tower of the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta. Long before the bell tower was built, long before Christianity came to Italy people inhabited the marsh islands. By 100 A.D. grand Roman holiday villas were situated on Torcello. Torcello first ros...Torcello ...