GMO campaigns are delicate. Protesters and campaigners against GMOs are usually passionate, loud and not always presenting the most trust-inducing image for observers, becoming sitting ducks for labels like “conspiracy theorists”, “anti-establishment” or just “a waste of everyone’s time”.
Please excuse the skipping of a couple of episodes in this travel series but I thought I’d come up to speed first and then fill in the gaps (which would be the Adelaide and Hawaii sections) rather than keep running on delayed action. With Hawaii ending up mostly an exploration-filled three weeks of very much …
The office is looking a little different these days… Read More »
I’d like to share one of the more physical results of my time on Mount Glorious: the Art for Play catalogue which I created. Art DiNouveau is a commercial art sculpture company making fabulously giant playground structures, museum-grade dinosaur sculptures and decals as well as a life-size alien creature called Zetan. As you can imagine with such …
Art for Play. A little something out of my Mount Glorious week. Read More »
Taking the train from Brisbane airport after bidding Gayle goodbye as she left for Bali, I did not quite know what to expect of the week ahead. I had met Sascha for about 10 minutes when we drove unexpectedly into her driveway, I had seen the house fleetingly and I knew she owned a company …
My week on Mount Glorious – when things magically fit into place. Read More »
A bit of a delayed post about a week which happened a couple of weeks ago when we rented a Jucy van and drove down to Byron and up the Sunshine coast to Noosa living in our little van. A bit late perhaps but it was an absolutely fabulous experience that I’d like to share …
Tooth issues kind of took centre stage over a lot of the past week. It started on Wednesday evening, the night we got back from driving around Byron and the Gold Coast in a rented Jucy van (which was utterly fabulous). My head hurt, I was feverish, my cheek swollen – hello tooth infection. My …
Coming to Brisbane was more of a logistical decision than a conscious choice. Gayle was doing some networking at a festival close-by and the crew was all flying to Brisbane so I thought, why not? I booked the flight back from New Zealand (oh yes, I went to NZ unexpectedly for two weeks, but that’s …
Living off the grid, new friends, tons of info and a hard look at my own effects on surroundings Sitting in the shade after my Cricket For Dummies crash-course, I can just about understand what’s happening with the bowling and running and how one actually scores points in cricket. Which is great since most of …
Koh Lipe Our first Thai landing place brought mixed feelings. Beautiful beaches, sea gypsies on longtail boats, lush forest; juxtapositioned with a ratio of foreigners to Thai of around 10:1, severe overdevelopment around the beaches, rubbish and the feeling of being in a tourist resort. Overall I was not impressed. Having said that, Lipe …
On the evening of the second day in Malaysia we decided to stop by Pentai Chenang to get some culture appropriate clothing (our shorts and tank tops were attracting far too much male attention) and book our crossing to Thailand for the following day. The plan was to cross over to Koh Lipe by ferry and …
The Malay Key Adventure. Lessons on the fluidity of travel. Read More »
