With the year nearly over and almost a year of traveling behind me, here are my “bests” of the year that was. Best Day: Venturing through the Green Canyon in Pangandaran on the southern coast of West Java with a great bunch of mates including Chris “Card” Andrade, Djoeke “The Duke” Van Dijk, Teatske “T-Dog” Van Dijk, Rosey…
Category: Australia
What Would Your Version Of ‘Eat Pray Love’ Be Called? Merry Christmas From The Whitsundays, Dec 2010
I spent the last nine months of 2010 travelling through Asia, Canada, the States, Australia and a little bit of New Zealand (just to keep my Kiwi-ness topped up) and wherever I was around the world I saw people (mainly women) reading the Elizabeth Gilbert memoir Eat Pray Love. The book follows a wealthy, recently divorced…
Living In The Whitsundays – Where No-One’s Heard Of Leslie Nielsen!
Living on an island, you can be more than a little isolated from the outside world, particularly here in the Whitsundays where reliable Internet access is about as common as a score past 30 from Kiwi cricketer Craig Cumming. No newspapers on Lindeman Island, little time for radio and TV, just intermittent Internet checks to…
The Arcade Fire & My Favourite New Song Of 2010
I’m not going to lie, it’s not a short flight from Vancouver to Auckland, particularly when you’re enroute to Brisbane enroute to Hamilton Island enroute to Lindeman Island. Needless to say, I had a bit of time on my hands and discovered this song by Canadian band (and fellow Springsteen fans) The Arcade Fire called…
Goodbye To Vancouver, Hello To Queensland’s Whitsunday Islands – November 2010
The intention was never to leave Canada after four months, but the intention when I said goodbye to New Zealand nearly eight months ago was always to have an adventure. And what an adventure. While I have only seen about 0.00000000000000001% of this massive country, I have explored Vancouver through and through; I’ve sung karaoke…