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Labassa Mansion
My latest photo adventure started in the usual way — by poking around on Google Maps. At one point my eye caught a little camera icon. The place was called Labassa Mansion, and it was in Caulfield North. Caulfield North… Continue reading
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Elizabeth Street
I’d like to share another wander around central Melbourne. The CBD’s actually pretty small — about one and a half by two kilometres. I headed out to test some new lenses for my Panasonic, including a fisheye. The fisheye really… Continue reading
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The Garden and The City
Just east of Melbourne, pretty much on the edge of the city, there’s a small mountain range called the Dandenong Ranges (don’t confuse it with the suburb of Dandenong — that’s somewhere else entirely). Calling them “mountains” is a bit… Continue reading
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Mildura Holiday – the Gaol and the Cruise
This is it — finally the last post about our Mildura trip. I’ve been writing about this trip for a whole month now, and this is post number seven. You’d think we spent at least a couple of weeks there.… Continue reading
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Mildura
The trip to Mildura left me with a stack of impressions. I’ve already written about the roads, the dried-up lakes, the dunes, and even the town of Castlemaine. What I haven’t written about yet is Mildura itself. So it’s time… Continue reading
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Walls of China
In Australian English there’s a word ‘mallee’. It refers both to a type of landscape and to the vegetation. Basically, mallee means low-growing eucalyptus trees that cover vast semi-arid plains, along with the ecosystem that goes with them. Those plains… Continue reading
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Mildura holiday – Castlemaine
On the way to Mildura, we made several long stops. The first of them was the town of Castlemaine. By the way, I’ve already written about Castlemaine before — not about the town itself, but about the museum ship named… Continue reading
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Nicholas Building
Stories have a habit of weaving themselves together. Sometimes you learn something new — an interesting little piece of information or history. Then you come across another one that doesn’t seem related at all. And then a third one appears,… Continue reading
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West Gate Tunnel
Remember how the Fellowship of the Ring travelled through the mines of Moria in the first book of Tolkien’s famous trilogy? Well, I also got to wander through some massive underground caverns — Melbourne-style this time — though my adventure… Continue reading
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Chapel Street
Текст на русском находится внизу страницы, после английского Chapel Street is a pretty common street name in the English-speaking world. Back in the day if a new church went up on a fresh street, the road almost automatically got called… Continue reading
