Archive for July, 2004
Jetlag and country lag
The milestone for the week after the world tour has been getting over the jet lag (I know, I know, my goals seem to have become far more mundane now that I have returned home). It took a few days before the body clock was reset and I stopped waking up in the pitch-black hours […]
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Lost: One pair of muscles
I know my pair of sunglasses will have done a loop between the Avignon TGV station and the city centre or two on the bus, and my Lonely Planet guidebook for Italy may have headed for the French border after being left behind on the train near Chinque Terra, but nowhere on my trip can […]
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A moment of reflection
That word, reflection, can send shivers down the back of any multimedia student (for those who haven’t studied at UTS, apologies. It is an in joke), but on the night before I head to LA airport for the 14 hour flight back to Syndey, I can’t help but think back on this journey. It has […]
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Is it real?
How do you gauge happiness? Disney must have the extensive algorithms to work out the happiness quotient because they label Disneyland the happiest place on Earth. I have to admit I haven’t laughed so hard for a long time than when I visited the famous theme park, and its counterpart California land (I wasn’t laughing […]
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Driving, Mexican style
Every country has its variations on how to drive, but Mexico takes a bit of getting used to.
For someone coming from Australia, driving on the right side of the road looks hard enough, but when you have to contend with traffic coming four different sides, pedestrians walking onto the road from another two directions, three […]
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Vive la France for a day
I flew the French flag from my backpack yesterday. I felt I had to for the tricolours were flying throughout Paris. It was Bastille Day after all. There was the parade along the Champs Elyssee, the motorcade that included French President Jacques Chirac, the Foreign Legion, and the flyover by France’s air force.
But the […]
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The real thing
For years I’ve been staring at a print of Wassily Kandinsky’s Two Green Points on my wall (before I moved everything into storage).
In amid the suspended stockings filled with sand, the neon, the totally blue canvasses (oddly enough titled Blue) at Paris’ Pompidou Centre was the real thing: Kandinsky’s Two Green Points.
This week […]
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Barcelona on canvas
Barcelona loves its art. It´s proud of being part of Picasso´s life and its architecture from the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the city underwent a change to show its wealth and strength to the rest of the world show a great attention to detail and references to art.
But it hasn´t stopped […]
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Barcelona from a different angle
A lot of people only get to view Barcelona from the bottom of a sangria glass (since it only seems to come in half and full litre sizes with metre-long straws, it must be a wide-angle lens).
Me? I hit the museums and sights and galleries in such a way that I didn´t have the […]
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And now for something saucy
Now that I have my addiction to Italian gellati licked (sorry, pun intended), I now seem to have replaced it with a liking for French tarts (I´m talking about the ones with pastry).
The French, whether it be their tartes aux pommes, or their main courses, do know how to make their food rich. A […]