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Making A List, Checking It Twice
Since I decided to stay here and my company agreed to sponsor an application for a business visa, I’ve become reacquainted with the many and varied joys of trying to gather disparate items from various authorities. The requirements for a 457 visa application aren’t unreasonable, but there certainly are a lot of hoops to jump […]
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A Crazy Wii Day
In which I am nearly misunderstood to be holding a little old lady hostage on Australia Day, and take a virtual beating on Wii Boxing.
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Vote Lamb
Buying into the advertising campaign, I lend my voice in support of lamb on Australia Day.
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Just Not Cricket
Yesterday was another day, another cricket defeat. I can hardly wait for the inevitable ironic cheers on Monday at work. I was out last night for a friend’s birthday at a local bar, when who should walk in but our fallen heroes. Freddie Flintoff, Ian Bell, Mal Loye and a couple of others were out, […]
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All Change
In which I muse on the paradox of money in Australia, with its brilliant notes and ridiculous coins.
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Slip Slide Ride
I infamously failed to climb Mt. Fuji last year, so what possessed me to climb a glacier I don’t know. I would have felt reassured seeing the elderly and children also attempting it, were it not for the fact that a bunch of primary schoolkids climbed Fuji a couple of days before I did. Luckily, […]
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Jade And Ice
In Manchester, you have the curry mile, a semi-misnomered kilometer stretch of curry houses and jewelery shops. In the same vein, Hokatika could be the Jade Square Mile. From the quaint little clocktower in the town centre, all you can see down each road are jade workshops interspersed with craftstores, glassblowing centres and, yes, jewelery […]
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
I only decided to come on this trip relatively recently, so all my flights are different to Amy’s the friend I’m travelling with. Somehow, the cheapest flight to Christchurch I could find was with Emirates, whose service and entertainment was so good that for the first time ever, I wished my flight was longer. And […]
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Tourism By The Numbers
On Manly Beach, and being on Manly Beach, and the disappointment of being on Manly Beach.
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Fresh Start
One of my New Year’s Resolutions, (along with 30 million lapsed bloggers, I imagine), is to start writing here again. In Japan, I felt like I had lots to write about, but in Australia not so much, especially since I began working full-time in Brisbane. There are already thousands of people writing about what their […]
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Technology and travel stories from a global roaming, kangaroo loving, sake drinking gaijin pom.
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