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Australia's biggest attraction is its natural beauty. The landscape varies from endless sunbaked horizons to dense tropical rainforest to chilly southern beaches. Scattered along the coasts, its cities blend a European enthusiasm for art and food with a laid-back love of sport and the outdoors.
Visitors expecting to see an opera in Sydney one night and meet Crocodile Dundee the next will have to re-think their grasp of geography in this huge country. It is this sheer vastness that gives Australia - and its diverse population - much of its character.
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Sat, 8 Feb 2025 | By besoka | Views [37]
After struggling with this old platform out of nostalgia and symmetry, I've decided that it's just too old, broken and frustrating. It appears to be running an old version of Cloudflare that causes it to fail for increasingly random reasons - eg ... Read more >
Tue, 14 Jan 2025 | By besoka | Views [73]
Helsinki II - Heavenfloati
Day 1 = Sun 12 Jan
Train
Possible snowplough at 3:30am
Woken up in Tampere
Packed up and off at Helsinki
2 Cabs to accom
Accom
2 level penthouse in Docklands-ish part of town
Emma succeeds ... Read more >
Tue, 14 Jan 2025 | By besoka | Views [38]
Apukka Resort
Day 0 = Thu 9 Jan
Arrived at Apukka
Emma checked in
Kid on phone didn't notice his suitcase was making the automatic door open and close for half an hour
Dropped our luggage and picked up out outer clothes
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Tue, 14 Jan 2025 | By besoka | Views [31]
Day 0 = Sun 5 Jan
Flight (Finnair)
Gorgeous view of Finland from above (daytime flight)
Snow-covered-ice-covered-lakes
Forests in between
Granite boulder fields
Listened to Sibelius 2nd Symphony and blissed out
Travel ... Read more >
Tue, 14 Jan 2025 | By besoka | Views [37]
Helsinki 1
Day 0 = Thu 2 Jan
Helsinki
Russian capital of Finland, moved closer to Russia than the old Swedish capital of Tuurku
Not the introduction to the second act of a regrettably broad pre-War production of Dante's Inferno by ... Read more >
Fri, 3 Jan 2025 | By besoka | Views [89]
More notes only, though this one loaded with less swearing at least.
Day 0 = Sun 29 Dec
Train to Stockholm
Got to Stockholm Centralen
Tiny old slow lifts that took 2 people at a time
Long distance train station that doesn't ... Read more >
Wed, 1 Jan 2025 | By besoka | Views [61]
More notes only. This blog is really glithcy about some content, so I've had to delete some sections to get it to save without it crashing to an error page. Seriously, the word "names" triggered it.
Day 1 = Thu 19 Dec
Last Scandic ... Read more >
Wed, 1 Jan 2025 | By besoka | Views [57]
I'm finding I only have time to make quick notes at the end of each day, and I doubt I'll have time to write them up nicely until I get back. So I figured I'd throw the raw notes up here for anyone interested knowing what we're up to in something ... Read more >
Wed, 25 Dec 2024 | By besoka | Views [59]
[Still catching up on the journal from our basement apartment in Örebro]
Day 0 = Thu 12 Dec
After we'd found our accommodation, I was sent off to get supplies. There was a Danish supermarket near our place called "Netto", and so I headed ... Read more >
Mon, 23 Dec 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 23 Dec 2024 | By besoka | Views [63]
OK, I'm doing a bit of catching up now on this blog, so hopefully it'll turn into tight stream-of-conciousness rather than the bloat-by-bloat I churn out when I have too much time. [Update: Nope, sorry it's still kinda waffly.]
First leg - Brisbane ... Read more >
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 | By besoka | Views [58]
We haven't been OS since 2008, and haven't been on a plane since 2018 [apart from Emma taking a few domestic work trips because apparently that's still a thing in the modern world of east teleconferencing]. In fact, I worked out that, apart from ... Read more >
Tags: jonathan turley
Sun, 15 Dec 2024 | By besoka | Views [61]
♫ Ya live sixteen years, and whaddaya get? ♫ Answer: You get to go back to Sweden! So, to get you up to speed since the last post, we've got married, had a couple of kids, and planned a return trip to Sweden. Unfortunately, that trip was ... Read more >
Tags: brian hood
Mon, 9 Dec 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [11]
Adventures with Miss Anikka Double-K would continue today. This morning I woke up a little bit emotional but she and I decided it's best to finish our visit on a high note, as she was excited for breakfast and a hike. It is been an absolutely wonderful ... Read more >
Fri, 6 Dec 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [83]
10 years ago, I met the lady who would change my life. Little did I realise that, on that train ride, I would meet someone who would remain so dear to me. Anikka is my bestie, the lady I love most, and my favourite lady in the universe. Speaking of which, ... Read more >
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