I'm finishing this post on March 15 at Sydney airport about to leave Australia but had started it back on Feb 20 while in Adelaide. All I wrote at the time was the post title: enough for me to remember to go back and write the post later on. And you know what's cool? I…
Cool Receptions
I'd mentioned in a Facebook post a long while ago (6 Feb) how I'd been a last-minute addition to another group's five-day kayak tour of Phang Nga Bay in Thailand. That group was a made up (I'd thought) of a five-member family from Denmark, and I'd initially met them at dinner that Monday evening after…
Brutalism
Anybody who knows me knows that I absolutely despise brutalist architecture.* The concrete dominated structures often remind me of Havana's early Soviet-era high rise government and apartment buildings I saw three years back that remain in use despite being near collapse. Even in states of advanced decay that can add some bit of personality to…
Life in the City
Spent a good portion of the morning (14 Feb) in King's Park area of Perth. Beautiful. Need some evidence? Here you go: