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The anti-climax to rival all anti-climaxes occurred late on Friday, December 18th 2009. One of the great opportunities for the world to come together and address the urgent problems brought about by man-made climate change, and to take decisive steps towards mitigating it was squandered in dramatic fashion which ended in Barack Obama announcing...
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This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of 2007
“Do you want a bigger pole?”
“Uh, yes… thanks”
“Ideally, you want it to come up to about hip-height”
“Actually, I’d like mine to come...
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This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of 2007
Nothing really prepares you for the Iguazu falls. They’re big. Very big. They are the second most voluminous waterfalls in the world after Victoria falls,...
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This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of 2007
Climate change. Those two words seem to be the words-of-the-moment at the moment. But what I’m talking about isn’t the climate change that almost-president Al...
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This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of 2007
“So you´re from the other side of the dutch?”
What in the world… oh, New Zealand! It all clicked – he was referring to the Tasman...
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This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of 2007
We stepped carefully on the smooth slippery stones, being sure to ensure that each stone was not loose before committing our full bodyweight to it....
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This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of 2007
The window was a dirty dark porthole to the hot humid air above the Caribbean Sea. It had not been cleaned for some time and...
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This was one of many letters published in the Melbourne University Student Magazine – Farrago. It was part of a series on the various things people did during their summer break. I had done a summer semester course working on an archaeological dig in Malta.
Hey Guys,
We’ve just about finished up here in Malta. 107-214...
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It all started when it was decided that the 2003 world inline speedskating championships was going to be held in China. China, being geographically close to Hong Kong, was an ideal location for the first world championships to be attended by skaters from Hong Kong. Although I wasn’t aware of it at the time,...
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