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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 holiday – Oddities of Nature
My European readers looked at these photos and went, “So what? We’ve seen frozen lakes in winter before!” And fair enough — at first glance it really does look like a pretty standard winter scene. But if you look a… 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
