La Grande Bouffe
Saturday was quite beautiful (as the hazy weather in HK goes) and I was able to get a few decent view pics from the room, day and night. The mish-mash above is the ludicrous design in…
Bright Lights Big City
I shaved this morning and my Australia tan disintegrated into the sink. Ditto SS. This morning we woke up on the 33rd floor of the W Hong Kong. It’s an uneven brand, as hotel chains go, but by gosh…
A Change is Gonna Come
Great picture. I forgot to post that the day after MONA in Hobart. I can’t recall the artist exactly, my recollection is he was into “architectural modelism” but had no architecture training. There were beautiful modernistic renderings of towns…
Canadian Convicts, Tasmanian Devils and an Old Brew
I neglected to write about our ferry trip yesterday (vis-à-vis BCF). There was one ferry employee at the island on departure (it’s a pay on the mainland free return like Salt Spring Crofton). There was one deckhand directing traffic on…
Goin’ South
We did art Sunday so it was only suitable to do nature Monday. And we did nature as far south as, I guess, we’ll ever be. Antarctica isn’t on the bucket list. Although we’ve done Argentina and Chile we…
The Compulsion to Create
We took breakfast at a really authentic bakery (in the Jim Lahey style ) called Pigeon where they made the most delicious Eccles cakes. We passed a restaurant on the pier playing contemporary jazz to keep the boarders and ne’er…
Grapes, Oranges, Walnuts. Who Says Wall Tackle?
Gorgeous morning. Spectacular. Low 20s, light warm wind, just heavenly. Pic above is view from the living room deck. We had some breakfast then walked the beach barefoot for about an hour. I was going to take a full…
Wineglass Bay, the Isthmus Track, Promise Rock & Granite Mountains
Friday morning, February 2, looked a little bleak; cloudy and mild and looking like it might rain; but we are only here for a couple of nights so it was onwards and upwards. Outside it turned out warm. And, in…
Pelicans, Penguins & a Links Course
There is a wine route, a mere two-and-a-half-hour loop drive from Launceston, but once you factor in all the stops and deviations it’s a full day. We started out early, in the clouds; it went 39 degrees Sunday, 31 degrees…
Jetsetting on Jetstar
Yesterday when I was at the tennis SS went to the National Gallery of Victoria which had a free evening at the current show titled Triennial Extra. There was art, DJs, bars, food, ideas, dance, design. He saw…