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Truro-UK
Our one month war time stay in Truro Cornwall UK
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war
Our flights from Adelaide, Australia to Kuala Lumpur to Istanbul – informed of start of war on the screen in front of us, mid-flight. Then Istanbul via Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to London
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OMG
The final leg of our current three month trip. This is Saudi Arabia and Thailand
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Suez Canal
Cruise through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea December 2025
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Holland2025
Six week house exchange in Utrecht Netherlands original home of Narda until age four when she hoped a boat to Australia. We took the ICE over to Cologne to see the Christmas Market. This will be edited and added to in January as we are on the road – including a cruise through the Suez…
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Doha
Italics as always is Narda – though most of our blogs on this trip we will be doing differently. Narda will handwrite and add photos and drawings in her notebook then we will copy those pages into here. Incidentally, we used this same format a few years ago when we were in the Netherlands for…
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Penang
The end of our three month tour/play/exploration of Vietnam, India and Malaysia – this is the Penang blog.
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Kerala
Kerala, a state on India’s tropical Malabar Coast, has nearly 600km of Arabian Sea shoreline. It’s known for its palm-lined beaches and backwaters, a network of canals. Inland are the Western Ghats, mountains whose slopes support tea, coffee and spice plantations as well as wildlife.
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Mumbai-Goa
February 2025 too short of a time in Mumbai and Goa
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Ninh Binh & Hanoi
Our last weeks in Vietnam with wanders through Ninh Binh & Hanoi
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Saigon-NhaTrang
Our first week in Vietnam 2025 with Saigon and Nha Trang being the feature
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Eyre Peninsula
Caravanning Adventures in the Eyre Peninsula
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Dalai Lama
This blog is not just about the Dalai Lama. Yes we did go and see him in person and yes this is where his home and headquarters are but the majority of this blog is about our visit to the Himalayas town of McLeod Ganj which is in Dharamshala. Due to the weather getting hot…
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Darjeeling
The story of our fifteen-day stay in Darjeeling. We took the train from Guwahati
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Guwahati
The story of our fifteen-day stay in Guwahati.
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Varanasi
our stay in Varanasi India
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Lahore-Delhi
The post documents a journey from India to Pakistan and back, with stays in various cities. It includes experiences like crossing the border, hotel stays, train journeys, and interactions with locals. The writer includes details about daily life, transportation, and lost luggage incidents. The content provides an extensive account of travel experiences, including cultural observations…
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Crossing_Wagah
current blog at https://neuage.me/lahore-delhi Walking from India into Pakistan 2024 Narda italics – me not This trip has been planned for a long time – a long time in our world, a few months. We are continuing our plan with three months home (Adelaide) three months anywhere but home. 2023 those months included: Kuala Lumpur…
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Spain2023
Our three month trip ending with DC and Spain in this blog
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Chicago
We are in Spain for October 2023 – blog at https://neuage.me/spain2023 see our videos (updated frequently) @ https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLzv1YGfx_SMyPsM8sXC0uRH-9n8KuFb6I/videos 15 August 15 Chicago – as usual Narda’s blog is in italics and mine, whatever… To train station Battle Creek after our little epic journey from Adelaide to Sydney to Albany, New York to Battle Creek, Michigan.…
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Battle Creek
for 76 years I have been on my way to Battle Creek and finally arrived – then left…again
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Phuket
May 18 Goodbye Todmorden, the house is clean, the (bloody heavy) bags ready to go. It was too hard to get a taxi to pick us up before 7 am, so we took the short but steep hill walk to the train. So, we walked, huffing and puffing, me vowing never to exceed 10 or…
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Todmorden
Todmorden UK As always…Narda’s sensible notes are in italics and mine whatever else there is. Also, the slideshows are usually three seconds apart, they can be stopped to groove on a particular shot by clicking the little bars in the upper right corner. The videos are linked to YouTube because I didn’t pay for the…
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Wales
15 April Saturday Breakfast at The Captain Alexander Liverpool – J D Wetherspoon https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pubs/all-pubs/england/merseyside/the-captain-alexander-liverpool It was the Grand National horse racing weekend so the place was packed with people drinking at 7-8 am for breakfast. NOTE: The video clips in this blog are re-directed to YouTube because I did not pay for the expensive upgrade…
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Liverpool
Liverpool, UK March 22, 2023 As usual Narda’s writing is in italics – the other person’s in whatever else… Back to the ferry terminal. We used an Uber type ride the whole way there. It was quick and easy. Another wonderful crossing, this one a little less bumpy, or at least the ocean calmed down…
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UK-NL
Terrell @ Weesperstraat
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Pakistan2023
museum of natural history
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KL-2023
Terrell riding on Adelaide bus to airport
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Paradise Valley
Christmas 2022 to January 23, 23 Terrell notes not italics Narda notes italic NOTE: sometimes we may almost repeat one another probably because we are always together – Narda’s though, is probably the writing that makes sense, and I sometimes use ten words to Narda’s one to say the same thing – so that is…
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NZ2
2nd Three Weeks in New Zealand – this time Greytown Posting this a few weeks after our trip is over and we are back home – mowing lawn, weeding, finding leaks from the rain that visited more than ever whilst away and left our “garden” as an overgrown plot for a Steven King movie. The…
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New Zealand
Below is our first house-exchange in New Zealand. We are now in Greytown and will post this blog when we get home first week of November. However, to the delight of ourselves…we are continually adding new video clips to our story which can be viewed in our YouTube playlist. We especially like the clip on…
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Holland 2022
Our 2022 visit to The Netherlands (March-April) following our stay in Washington DC and Lahore Pakistan
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Covid World Tour 2021
Briefly, Braving the new world order, we left Australia on December 03. Our first stay was in Lahore, Pakistan for the marriage of Brendan. We spent three weeks there. On December 24th we flew Lahore to Istanbul – missed our next flight and spent Christmas Day in Istanbul flying on in the afternoon. We arrived…
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Our current life with Covid
Leaving Australia ‘Again’: Before the After (e-book updated) Queensland_20021 These are a few rambling notes and photos from our little trip from Adelaide, South Australia to Cairns, Queensland. The final cost of fuel (diesel, not including the $93 petrol I put in instead of diesel and had to have the car drained when we were…
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Darwin
She was a carefree flower girl of 18 Selling flowers on Bourbon Street 1968 I was a street artist… Life with Covid as of an hour ago To Darwin 05-February 2021 Notes/photos of three weeks in Darwin. Individual articles were tossed up to https://neuage.substack.com/ Narda in italics Terrell whatever It is more than an hour…
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Port Macquarie
Our current life with Covid as of 28 February 2021 Darwin, Australia how we see the world today Thursday 25 February 2021 Thoughts in Isolation https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TW5FNHN Lucky us: we left South Australia four days before the border was closed due to Covid 19, We left Port Macquarie a few…
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A cautionary tale
A cautionary tale My son, Sacha, lives in Melbourne, Victoria. He came to Adelaide, South Australia. The state of Victoria has been in lock-down for more than three months with restrictions just starting to be lifted. My son had to apply 14 days before crossing the border. At the border he realized he needed more…
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Rotterdam2020
Our current status (Narda and me) @ home – we arrived in Adelaide after 10 weeks in the Netherlands and flights back via Amsterdam and Singapore where we spent 17 hours – we have been given amazing help with a home in Swan Reach along the Murray River where we did our quarantine of two…
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Arnhem 2020
This is our blog – our notes, photos, scribbles during our stay in Arnhem for six weeks. OUR BLOG FOR ROTTERDAM WILL BE POSTED ON 9TH APRIL WHEN WE ARE BACK HOME AFTER OUR QUARANTINE… Our current status (Narda and me) @ – we have arrived in Adelaide after 10 weeks in the Netherlands and…
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Singapore 2020a
Singapore 2020 It has been a long time compared to the history of the world (or not) since we have been in Singapore. The last time we spent a few days here was in 2006. Narda looked fourteen years younger then – not sure about me, all the photos we have are with Narda in…
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka was the next choice. We spent three months in India in 2018, last year, and we were there in 2005, we’ll do India again some other day. The actual reason had to do with our wanting to cross the Wagah Border at Amritsar, India and go on to Lahore, Pakistan to…
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Thailand2019
Our first leg of our Asia 2019 trip (September) Narda’s notes / Terrell’s notes When does a journey begin? Perhaps like all of us entering life itself. Conception (we’ll give those details a miss); the conception of this trip I think began when Brendan accepted an offer to teach year four(which turned out to be…
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USA 2019
As is so often the way we do things, this USA 2019 trip has been a long time coming. We started with planning to be at Narda’s son’s Chris’ 40th birthday, several years ago. We wanted to do a combination of Airbnb, Chris’ home in Washington DC and Home Exchanges. This is how we have…
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Spain
This is our final instalment of the three- or four-part series on our three-month European whatsup trip. The main focal points being The Netherlands, Berlin, Northern Spain, with a yarn or two about the UK (London, Horsham, Brighton, Portsmouth, and of course our mini-cruise, the ferry). Noja Lovely overnight on the ferry. Pilar and Josera…
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UK
Leaving Germany to Horsham, UK 30 September Sunday Goodbye Berlin. It has been an amazing stay. A really nice cosy flat, super hosts, beautiful views, great bikes and easy public transport. I think we’ll be back. Our host, Frank, drove us to Schönefeld Airport (the secondary international airport of Berlin used for these short flights).…
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Berlin
Follow @neuage Tweet to @neuage Holland was a hoot. (previous Europe post) We’ll be back. We said that six times before and sure enough we went back. Seems as if we have a January/February 2020 stay lined up. We did a winter stay two years ago; not sure if it is best for bike riding.…
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Macclesfield
Macclesfield is a small town on the upper reaches of the River Angas in the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia. 958 is what Wikipedia says is their population. Allegedly we upped it to 960 for a couple of days last week. Good on us. That is not the story I will tell though, our…
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Utrecht
Utrecht (This was written 22/08/18 – and posted mid-December 2018. How time flies) We have a clip over at YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBJhZgMqB6A The Netherlands is like my third or fourth home. USA would have to be first as I was born there and spent about 33-years before nesting in Australia, then nine-years back to New…
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London2018
Kuala Lumpur to London 07/August/2018 11 am – One hour into our flight, Australia all around; sky, land, air, Australian clouds drifting by, sure they are foreign, ruffled refurbished refugee clouds. This sky again – millions of years in the making, I have seen it before, multiple times. Machine learning sky, reformatting to my projections;…
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Amritsar
Amritsar For some reason, forget why now, we decided we had enough train journeys in India, so we booked round-trip flights between Delhi and Amritsar. The cost was $71.50 round trip for each of us, the train would have taken us six-hours, the plane less that an hour. Getting to the airport was easy, only…
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Kerala
Kerala is a state on India’s tropical Malabar Coast. Did you know: Kerala has the highest life expectancy at birth (74.9) during 2010-14 among all Indian states. wikipedia.org Narda writing Terrell writing Thiruvananthapuram 20 – February Our hostess is an Indian Jessica. Softly spoken, sweet, helpful and intelligent, with long dark hair and a gentle…
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Pune
Pune: wow, so much to say. We went there to meet up with Sidhee and her little sister Gargee. This was a highlight for us. In our first meeting, Sidhee arranged for us to meet a group of her uni friends. They are all studying Computer Engineering. The conversations were so interesting, ranging from their…
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Mumbai
Mumbai 08 – 13 February 2018Narda writing in italics Terrell – whatever is left Hopefully you caught the one before – The fantastic Blue City of Jodhpur https://neuage.me/2018/02/23/jodhpur/ Things that are surprising. Toilet paper and tissues are cheaper in Australia. Indian food is so good. It’s better than in Australia. Lots better, consistently. That might…
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Jodhpur
Jodhpur 05-07/February/2018 We arrived via Indian Railroad from Jaisalmer last night about 11 pm but after getting settled; including having toast with peanut butter and jam (if I were ever caught by a hostile regime and I said I was not an American, and they put out peanut butter and jelly (jam) I would be…
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Jaisalmer
01 – 04 February 2018 Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India We left Jaipur at midnight to Jaisalmer taking a 2nd class sleeper. First class was filled when we booked three months earlier. Narda took the upper bunk and seemed to sleep more than me. A woman in the bunk across from me snored louder than anyone I…
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Jaipur
Jaipur in the state of Rajasthan 25 January, Thursday Narda slept most of the way from Agra to Jaipur. We had first class sleepers which were comfortable. I sat up the whole way (six hours) and played with some Photoshop stuff. We got to Jaipur after eleven pm and took the first tuk tuk driver…
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India2018: Agra
Travels through India with Terrell Neuage and Narda Biemond. India 2018 itinerary Previous blog: Delhi Wednesday 24/01/2018 Agra We were up at five am after not sleeping well all night from waking up constantly to be sure we were awake at five am. We had our phone alarms on (my wake-up ring tone is a Dylan…
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India2018
Travels through India with Terrell Neuage and Narda Biemond. Return to India 2018 For daily notes and photos and clips see http://www.neuage.org/India/ and follow the link to UPDATED… Video Clips are HERE Thursday 18, January 2018 Friday morning 10 AM India time Delhi Narda writes in italics Terrell not I’m writing waiting for brekkie at…
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Denmark 2017
The cruise was great. Yet just part of the story. What could be better? Well we found better, or let us say same same but different in the better world of better. Six weeks in Ringkøbing. Clearly my spellcheck is going to struggle with this narrative. An o that is an ø; perhaps on the…
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cruise
Cruise Norwegian Getaway 70th birthday cruise the video for this blog is at (https://youtu.be/ZdShBQ21o20) If you want a clear concise reading, read what is written in italics – which is from Narda’s blogs; if you want to sludge through my verbiage then read the rest too. Day One 05 August Copenhagen I have always been…
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“Coburg’s Earthmoving is serving Yabbies”
30 April – 2017 somewhere in Australia Monday morning, we had the big breakfast with eight family members and my two mentors; Maggie and Mabel. As is usually the case the eight family members sat around at the table talking and Maggie and Mabel and I went outside to play. When those adults came outside…
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Terowie
5 April 2017 Terowie, South Australia Robert said he heard his mate calling him from mid-north SA. So he and his wife packed up, and moved there. They bought a house for $90,000 opposite Robert’s mate’s garage. He told us about the murders in Terowie. “Just like Snowtown”, he said, “Maybe worse. These victims were…
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Cambodia
Cambodia 2017 3 March Friday DAY 98 of trip Friday, another big travel day. The Lotus Hotel provided an airport shuttle (200B = $5.65US) and we took an Air Asia flight to Phnom Penh, via Bangkok. Blimey those seats are tight. Oh well, it’s what you pay for. It was all on time, even the…
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Thailand 2017
Thailand 2017 19 February Sunday DAY 86 of trip I love travel days. Always have. There is probably not a lot of difference between the family dog and me when it comes to the start of a journey. Thinking of when my two sons and our dog, ‘puppy’ (he never seemed to act like an…
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Good bye Holland
Holland May you always be first and never second. Dutch Relatives. 4 February Saturday DAY 71 of trip We went to dinner with Karen and Frank, Narda’s family, to the Indisch (Indonesian) Restaurant http://www.kingsdish.nl/. This is about the smallest restaurant I have been to. The place was filled to capacity, sixteen diners. The couple who…
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Two ponts and a castle
30 January Monday DAY 66 of trip Previous to this trip videos: Riding on Rienk’s boat through the canals of Utrecht https://youtu.be/Per0jb8JszU Sep 17, 2012 / ‘Hup Holland Hup’, Narda and friend at the Dalian International School singing the song supporting the Dutch soccer team – https://youtu.be/9rrMeajC6v0 a classic not to be missed / another…
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Returning Home
Utrecht part 2 See part one toward the end of our last blog Washington DC to Amsterdam and life in between
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Washington DC to Amsterdam and life in between
11 January Wednesday Tuesday DAY 47 Watch for travel tips Morning spent completing blog for the period 1 – 10 January. See https://neuage.me/2017/01/12/more-of-not-the-same/ which took longer than expected which isn’t that always the way? To paraphrase Narda. We write these in Word but change it to html for an online blog, each photo gets re-imaged…
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More of not the same
01 January Sunday DAY 37 of one-hundred fifteen of our round-the-world retirement catching up with family and friends tour and trying to do a low-carb vegetarian diet Back in DC. Great start to the year! Kids went out for New Year’s Eve and we babysit and got to bed by 10pm. Our kind of night…
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Marijuana friendly-Oregon
E-book storefront http://neuage.papertrell.com/ new photo-textual fun – HERE Sunday 17-12-2016 Day 22 of one-hundred fifteen of our round-the-world retirement catching up with family and friends tour and trying to do a low-carb vegetarian diet Despite dire warnings about the Artic Vortex and freezing rain, our flight to Portland took off right on time. Terrell and…
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Days 19 – 21 of retirement world tour reunions
E-book storefront http://neuage.papertrell.com/ new photo-textual fun – HERE Day 19 – DC ~ Baltimore 15-12-2016 Wednesday The rumour of a polar-vortex starting tomorrow got us out the door and heading north. I had thought that it would be interesting to go past where I used to live @ 1719 Broadway Rd Lutherville Timonium, MD 21093…
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NYC – DC days 6 – 14 of retirement world tour reunions
E-book storefront http://neuage.papertrell.com/ Day Next 6 – 14 /December/2016 After too few hours’ sleep we positioned ourselves into the morning breakfast line at the only eating place open at 7 am in JFK where we were rewarded with a couple of eggs and a slice of tomato for fifteen bucks; they tossed in a bit…
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Day 6/7 01 – 02 December: Thursday and Friday 70th Annual Kaimuki Christmas Parade Our last night in Hawaii was as local as you can get. We took the 13 bus. The actual stop, we discovered on our last day was right outside our block of flats; you just had to go to the…
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Day 5 & 6 of 116 day retirement world-tour > Oahu
Day 5 & 6 of trip or day 4 & 5 in Hawaii 29/11/2016 Tuesday/Wednesday We are getting better at this time zone change situation. I took this picture when we were almost all the way to Hawaii to remind myself which side of the day I was on. Flying over the International Dateline and…
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Day 4 of 116 day retirement world-tour > Oahu
Nothing says “this is Hawaii” better than having Elvis with some hula girls singing on Waikiki Beach. Yes, it is him – the reason it is blurry is because no one was supposed to have seen this. Like in those UFO photos. What is more iconic in Hawaii than Elvis with hula girls? Well Elvis…
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Day 3 > Honolulu
Day 3 Sunday 28/11/2016 Honolulu One of my first impressions of Hawaii when I first arrived in December, 1969, was all the images of a cold northern winter. Australia does this too. Both places with no snow in sight for thousands of kilometres unless you go to the mall. Then there are songs about dashing…
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Day 2 Retirement (or not) World-Tour > Honolulu
Second day of four-month world trip. Today in Hawaii.
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Day 1 Adelaide > Sydney > Honolulu
First day of four-month world trip. Today in Hawaii.
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Leaving Australia – Again
Leaving Australia again… end of 2016 edition. Packing. We seem to be always packing. In a couple of days, the next trip begins for Narda and me: leaving Adelaide to get the international flight to Honolulu. I lived there in the past. 1. In 1969 I arrived with my girlfriend and her one-year old daughter,…
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Cambodia Again
20 January 2016 Phnom Penh Louisiana Blues, the two-hour length – non-stop version. I look around; Narda and I are the token Westerners on this flight to Singapore. I look over, she is watching ER, there are more than 600 movies on the screen and she is watching ER so I know she is not…
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Dell and life in general
Neuage on Amazon (See the first ten pages of each for free) ODAM 21 November 2015 Thoughts in Pattern Book 1 – 07 January 2016 Leaving Australia – 01 January 2016 This is really about my friend Dell and a tribute to him but I do wander in about Dell in particular as I…
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Last!
June 18 – 24, 2014 Last! Add-on at end of page as of 8 pm Tuesday 6/24/2014 Last week at our school, Dalian American International School, Golden Pebble Beach, Dalian Development Area, Dalian, China. Last time at Discoveryland. That is good after four times. This is one of those places I would never have gone…
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Softball and Wedding
Videos associated with this blog: Wedding http://youtu.be/hXTnilDBg1Q Temple visit http://youtu.be/a8QCaHBe9tA Part 1 Softball April 19 – 20 I thought it was last weekend but then I was wrong; so I thought it was the week prior then the weekend prior to that but now looking at the date it was a month ago. When yesterday…
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Embedding Thailand
Embedding Thailand home Blog Index previous blog videos for this blog: train to Hua Hin http://youtu.be/tjxnVU4FoGk King of Thailand passing by http://youtu.be/XvOScADNIKQ Bangkok at night and the Chao Phraya (แม่น้ำเจ้าพระยา) River http://youtu.be/ykrkrZ06zH8 Cabbages and Condoms and Bangkok protests http://youtu.be/3lXhsVCd19M Three years ago our school, Dalian American International School, gave us our spring break unfettered. Professional…
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Langkawi wowie
video for Langkawi at http://youtu.be/xjsETcPNtNI Not to be confused with Maui wowie or anything to do with Hawaii except what a great place Langkawi is. Left home. Home was back there. Back there was Ao Nang. We had made ourselves at home so quickly. Like within hours. We left the motor scooters out front where…
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Next
A short line or two about our holiday in Ao Nang and Krabi Thailand
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Warmth
Warmth video at http://youtu.be/8Osc_Ckmz3E (Phuket) http://youtu.be/8YGAf2A7NtM (Ao Nang) (Railay) http://youtu.be/0O4WK_fCm2A (Krabi) http://youtu.be/08hPnWF7PWw Photos Saturday 21 December Warmth has many interpretations, perceptions, explanations: emotional, physical, spiritual, local, worldly, universal, chemical, mental and so forth and so here we are seeking warmth that encompasses it all. Simply put, because really who wants to hear one whinge and whine about their lot…
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Best Place to be
Video for this blog at http://youtu.be/AzaiYZU3zZk Where we are always seems to be not as interesting as where someone else is though why we say that I am not quite sure when wherever we are is where we are because that is the totality of all we have done so far in life and the…
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unchain my heart
Video for this Hong kong trip is at http://youtu.be/aUYG8gn72MQ Macau two weeks later or last week http://youtu.be/AzaiYZU3zZk I was having a quiet Friday evening watching thoughts drift by of what to do on the upcoming weekend. Sort of a quiet day. We arrived home at noon from a week in Xi’am seeing Terracotta Warriors, a Great…
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Do not take my Vegemite
“Do not take my Vegemite ” Vegemite Storage Letters Chinese police using geese Best loo in Kaifaqu In-flight Movies Lenovo Baggage allowances Australians are easy going, maybe some of the most laid back of any nationality. You will hear “she’ll be right mate” more than anything else. In fact there’s not that much going on…
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Reason to believe
July 12-13 2013: Friday/Saturday Home – I think – after decades where home is becomes questionable I think we are home. If we go by where the majority of our crap is that would be China but if we go by where we own our home then that is either one of two houses in…
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Blue Sky
July 09 Tuesday 2013 Blue sky After a couple of choking days in Beijing – it was much worse than times before – what a relief to see blue sky again. Surely we would not have two flights canceled in the same trip. Surely it is only Delta that is unable to get us from…
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Last Days
On the road again. Just a whistle stop in the States, ten-days: Jersey City, Atlanta, Big Canoe (in the mountains north of Atlanta), upstate New York (Albany, Round Lake), New York City and now waiting for a plane Newark – Toronto – Beijing. Just a short visit to see family, friends, our money person (who…
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suitcase wanderlust
This has been a fantastic visit with friends, family, business people and just being in the States. However, this is because we have learned through decades of travel to get only just so crazy with the actual travel part of our travel. Getting to the destination and getting to the destination with our belongings has…
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our Pommie GPS
POME = Prisoner of Mother England; our British speaking GPS Monday, June 24 2013 Following on from yesterday’s blog; https://neuage.me/2013/06/26/lama-temple-and-beyond/ – flying Beijing to Vancouver and on to New York City, arriving at one AM and sleeping a few hours we collected our car rental and plugged in the GPS that Randy Dandurand gave us…
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Lama Temple and beyond
Saturday, June 22, 2013 YouTube video clip Again. Again? Again! Never kept track of flights. Life is a flight. In-flight again. I don’t think I have done Air Canada before. Up here listening to Janis Joplin, OK I have done that before. She is my flight attendant. As one who rarely listens to music except…
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DragonBoat Festivals, DiscoveryLand, B’days
China surely is the champion of what is and what is not and perceptions mashed together to morph into possibly acceptable perceptions, but not really. Reality is a mistaken illusion – it always has been; look at religion, personal-relationships and politics and education…. Maybe it is best not to look to see but to look…
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Skip to my loo
It is so fundamental but the loo can so govern the day, especially in China. (Loo being Australian/British and etc. for toilet: (From Wikipedia: “When people flung their potty waste out of the window, they would shout “Gardez l’eau” [gar-day low]. That’s French for “watch out for the water”. We probably get the word “loo”…
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Just another weekend in China
Just another weekend in China though with a different set of events/thoughts/wanderings…. Chinese Visa Office 11th Annual Dalian International Walking Festival Soggy day ‘Famous French and English Bands’ at the Chateau du Vin Bordeaux Beatles concerts And so much more Actually this is more than a weekend memory of what-we-did as Thursday and Friday is…
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SOS China
SOS China Dinner seemed fine, just scrambled eggs with a bit of cheese and hash brown potatoes. But a few minutes later I was sicker than ever in my life. Narda was OK so we ruled out food poisoning but after getting rid of dinner and all else before and getting worse by the minute…
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Power off Life on
Power off Life on We have had these notices before… “The school is informed by the Electrical Company that there will be a power outage on Friday, May 3 from 7am to 4pm. If you bring your own lunch, please make sure that it does not need heating up as the microwave will not work.” Not…
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Breathing-in Facebook
Sunday morning, wanting to write up what is a bit of a big thing in my small world and definitely may bring some closure but of course never full closure as it shouldn’t to my meandering through this life or at least one significant aspect to it but after one paragraph we were off to Long Shan…
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International Day @ Dalian American International School
International Day @ Dalian American International School youtube clips for this are at http://youtu.be/fdkrxDDErXk (overview); http://youtu.be/Y7Vpt3vXI7M (druming); http://youtu.be/sVxYglz5xfI (choral piece written for this event) neuage webpage for this is at http://neuage.us/BLOGS/42-internatiotional-day.htm Every day is international day at our school, after all we have about 25 countries and 15 different languages but once a year we call it International Day.…
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Tomb Sweeping Fun
Ah Tomb Sweeping Day, Qingming Festival;; the day that one tends the graves of their once-were-mates. One of those great non-Western holidays that we celebrate by not working, well working but not usual working, working in the plan-our-holidays way. The thing is about two and a half thousand years old and for the most part…
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walking into glass @ EARCOS
EARCOS Teachers‘ Conference 2013 Shanghai Another conference now history another system of notes to integrate into my life another direction to life; all for the forward thrust of evolution for those who come next; the children so I am told. I have been to conferences. Mostly in New York (the best being NAIS’ ‘New York…
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Shanghai again
3/26/2013 Staying at an airbnb, the ”lujiazui riverview room shanghai” in the New Pudong section of Shanghai with spectacular views; for example, Shanghai World Financial Center – the tall one in front, 101 stories – I went to the top, above the hanger part, on a previous trip alone because Narda doesn’t like heights. Behind…
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Shenzhen for a weekend
Shenzhen, China. iPad workshop at Shekou International School stayed at Fraser Place Apartments Beijing visit to International School of Beijing (ISB); Dalian American International School A few weeks past which is what happens when life is full to live and there is no time to pause and reflect – maybe today I can get back on…
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Somewhere over ancient China
Somewhere over ancient China Skyline Skylights Sky so much of it Sunsets Darkness sun rises Islands ~ continents Pools of wetness People dreaming Below Next to me too Different dreams than me I dream of the future that is the past long ago past prehistoric me when decades I have known I had not known…
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Encounter @ Encounter Bay ~ Victor @ Victor Harbor
There were always evolutionary steps, there always will be. Whether it is the biggies in evolution when sea-stuff such as fish clambered out of the sea, breathed some air, got a leg up, developed then lost enough intelligence to become reflective-questioning humans millions of years later or this current crop of folks tossing about within…
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A Chinese miracle
A Chinese miracle Just to prove that miracles are not the sole (soul) domain of the Western religious-philosophers-‘we-are-the-chosen’ we discovered that even in China miracles do occur. I am defining miracle as that which is outside the ‘normal’ realm of our flitterings through life; those events that happen with some possible intervention beyond some dim…
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A Piggly Wiggly story
A Piggly Wiggly story I do not recall having heard of the Piggly Wiggly chain of stores before last summer. Not sure why that is as I lived in the States for about 42 of my 65 years on this planet and I surely have wandered through the south where they have 600 stores in 17 states.…
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Those were the days….
Those were the days…. and so are these if in the future we look back to these days being the best.
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china again
Wednesday, January 02, 2013 See my site for December at http://neuage.us/2012/Vietnam/ We left our Hanoi hotel at 5:30 AM; similar time that we got there a few days earlier after the train from Sapa tossed us out onto the payment of Hanoi. And at the airport @ 6:30ish then landing in Guangzhou, China time, at…
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Cat Cat, Sa Pa Vietnam
Cat Cat, Sa Pa Vietnam 30 December 2012 The first rainy day or actually all night previous but not to worry the rain did clear on Sunday morning with just a mist over Sapa and the one place we had not been to yet was the nearest village to Sapa, Cat Cat. Yes, that is…
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Lao Chai and Ta Van Village, Sa Pa, Vietnam
Trek-outside of Sa Pa Day 2 Sunday, December 30, 2012 We said we wanted an easier walk today from yesterday’s trek up and down the local hills (mountains to my legs) through the rice paddies of Lao Chai and Ta Van Village. We hiked with the Henderson, from Liverpool, who we met and trekked with yesterday,…
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Lao Chai Village, Sa Pa, Vietnam
Friday, December 28, 2012 Sa Pa, Vietnam We trekked to two villages today. The first was Lao Chai village, 6 km from the centre town, where the H’mong people are living. The trek was through rice fields and quite steep. The most difficult part was walking and balancing on the edge of the terraced rice paddies.…
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Sa Pa, Vietnam
Thursday, December 27, 2012 Sapa The train did not look anything like the photos but rather a world-war II vintage of a China train (just my opinion). We got the first class soft sleepers though the translation in Vietnamese of the word soft is a hard one inch mat on a metal frame. Four of…
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Christmas Day Hanoi
25 December 2012 Christmas Day Hanoi As I forgot to add this URL the last blog I scribbled out whilst dashing to a plane in Hoi An here it is http://blog.travelpod.com/members/3bybike We met this couple and their about ten-year old daughter at our hotel. They left Denmark last June and rode through Europe, Thailand, Cambodia…
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Hoi An, Vietnam
Friday, December 21, 2012 So quickly to find our life is not as adventuresome as the next person to pass by. Everywhere we travel their life is so unique and interesting but we no complain. Getting on our bikes this morning to look at local house rentals; we had heard a house goes for about…
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Dalian Harbour View Hotel
Best Western Premier, Dalian Harbour View Hotel Sunday, November 11, 2012 home Blog Index next blog previous blog Youtube video at http://youtu.be/mfIh5gvLq9A and at http://neuage.us/BLOGS/25-Dalian-Harbour-View-Hotel.html Friday morning 6 AM waking up saying to Narda maybe we should stay in Dalian for the weekend; get away from school and campus village – take a break, stay…
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Jinshitan Storming
Jinshitan Storming Sunday, November 04, 2012 blogs 2012 We had our storm. Nothing like Sandy visiting the East Coast of the US but the earth had its moments of spitting and farting then the electricity went off. I was doing non-significant stuff at 6:15 am on a Sunday morning; writing up my lesson plans for…
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rambling weekends
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 More at http://dalian.neuage.us/videos/Boee_Brilliant_Villas_.Hill.html photo album for this is at http://neuage.us/BLOGS/photos/ Last Sunday we changed our day around – I suppose if it was my classroom we could say it was the flipped classroom model but I am not going to equate a day of leisure with an academic day. Not that every…
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Home as a tourist destination
Home as a tourist destination I was born this This way Everything else I make up As I go (July 1995 Hackham, South Australia) I do not really have a home. I have a tourist destination. I am a tourist at home. Places I refer to as home are not homes but stops on the…
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Yantai days 2 – 4
Tuesday, October 02, 2012 Yantai, China Photos at https://picasaweb.google.com/114860736952666194539/YantiaChinaOctober22012 Yantai video at http://youtu.be/lz8mben5mec # 17 bus video at http://youtu.be/dyTNEHI6XVg #43 bus video http://youtu.be/vOkNcRV8Jug Ferry video http://youtu.be/gcx5Ll4V0iY # 6 bus and winery video at http://youtu.be/3BA6ngAJ6fQ my list of personal blogs – though not all uploaded they get added in between flights and work and everyday living http://neuage.us/BLOGS/ We…
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Ferry from Yantai to Dalian
Ferry from Yantai to Dalian Youtube clip at http://youtu.be/gcx5Ll4V0iY Yantai is a coastal city on the Bohai Sea in Shandong province. It’s located in the northeast of China near Qingdao and Dalian. Total population is about 6.5 million people. Yantai port is located in Zhifu Bay overlooking Liaodong Peninsula across the sea. The Yantai Port…
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to Yantai China on OK Airlines
Monday, October 01, 2012 Dalian Airport I am not sure whether it is our airlines; OK Airlines, or the sign over the gate we are departing from that causes concern. Not that I am concerned, this is China, what could possibly go wrong? I am sure these local flights are up to export standards. Like…
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Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節)
Saturday, September 29, 2012 How are some weekends different from other weekends? When there seems to be no end to the particular one being experienced is my favourite way; for example, this weekend syncs with next weekend in that the days between are part of the holiday of the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節) and no I…
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Parent Teacher conference
We had the first of two-days of parent teacher’s conference at our school today. I have done this at schools before, nothing new, but I did get to thinking about life in general and the turns and twists one takes on the journey. Sitting there with parents I remembered my days as the parent with…
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Just call me 牛腾然
Saturday, September 08, 2012 Just call me 牛腾然（niu teng ran) I have had a few names in my life… Started off with the most boring name of Terry Miller – How could I go through life like that? So I got myself adopted by the time I was three by some Christians in upstate New…
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morning walks
Saturday, September 01, 2012 Morning walks before school are what creates our day in many ways. We have been doing morning walks before school for years; ever since living and working in New York City. We tried to walk every morning from the World Trade Centre subway stop to Narda’s school in the west Village,…
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We’re Back
We are back at school from a summer of travel to the States and Australia which I have gone on about in previous blogs. We have about 18 new staff and at least ten who have left after last school year to teach in schools in India, Istanbul, Brazil, the Middle East, and many other…
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BOO
Another chance time to re-event me you them past not reflected past not shadowed past someone else’s NOW no longer in the future …
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the past in the present
embedding the present moments in Australia and the USA by re-experiencing the past decades
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Life is good
If you are in the International Airport in Beijing near gate 33 there’s a machine that churns out wifi codes – just put in your passport – five hours worth so I am spending my last three hours in China on line and on Facebook (so banned in China – thank you Astrill VPN for…
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Discoveryland
I was going to write a blog at least once a week; perhaps daily. It was a fine goal, right up there with I was going to work on one of my novels, poems, paintings or children stories a little bit every day, especially the ones I started back in the 1970s, then the one…
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Chinese New Years Beijing 2012
Back to travel 2012 http://www.neuage.us/2012 Photos of Beijing January 2012 at http://www.neuage.us/2012/Beijing/ Video at http://youtu.be/cSflIQ9_iyM Another China moment, this one to celebrate The Year of the Dragon, in Beijing, which seemed like the mother-load of New Year’s experiences. Traveling on New Year Day always is a great time to go a wandering. Going early is…
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+106 F to – 18 F
video clips for Harbin – see http://www.youtube.com/tneuage Harbin @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlRs9rMuB2U It was a week ago when we got back from winter holidays in Australia and Harbin. I was going to write about it all back then but what we refer to as work kind of got in the way. I am not complaining; work is fine and…
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Keeping warm
this is Australia and warm is the in thing to be
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my new iPhone 5
It comes in a nice looking box. iPhone 5. There is even an information guide and all the places in the world to contact Apple. If there was a real iPhone 5 then this would be somewhat of a clone but since there is not it is just the China iPhone 5 idea thingy that…
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What happened to capitalism and what happened to communism?
At first we thought it would be a luxury hotel. Then someone said it was going to be a winery still others said a display home. Whatever was going up at such a rapid rate was looking quite interesting. It was going to be kind of French as there is a large development going on across the street…
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HaLong Bay and Hanoi and 40 years ago
I like my hundred plus ties that I have bought whilst traveling the world. Now I am working on vests. Today we shopped amongst thousands of material stalls in Hanoi I got some great material for vests and when we get back home; Dalian China, next week I will get them made up by a…
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Tourists for a day
Today was a good day to go local to be a tourist to stand out from the crowd. Instead of following the American teachers into the weekend forays into Dalian or Kaifaqu we took the 3rd way out toward Jiuli. The light rail covers the Zhongshan District, Xigang District, Shahekou District, Ganjingzi District, and of course Kaifaqu where we…
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Learning2Connect Shanghai
technology gleanings whilst at http://www.learning2.asia/
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thanks for the emails
30 July Dalian Development Area Thanks for everyone who emailed that they were able to see this post via a link from Facebook and Twitter. We hope to get a VPN soonish then we too can see all our friends having wonderful western fun (they did have a jar of peanut butter in our pantry…
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not quite stuck
So the flight is half an hour late leaving Melbourne and we have a tight connection in Shanghai. They put us up in first-class so we can be among the first to alight – nice way to arrive in China to begin our new life. We rush out the door to the waiting bus but which sits there…
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My China Links
I grew up surrounded by bits and pieces and stories from/of China. Clifton Park New York in the 1960s was/is a long ways from anywhere. I left ‘the farm’ when I was about 16 or 17 – there was a blurring effect toward the end of the 1960s. Firstly I went to Orlando Florida then Key…
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Notes at start of 2011-2012 school year For Integration of Technology 6 – 12.
Notes at start of 2011-2012 school year For Integration of Technology 6 – 12. Start (if there is not one already) a technology integration group made up of teachers, administration, and students that make decisions about learning. Two students from each grade (female/male) would be 14, this could be too many so maybe two from…
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visa again
I have had visiting visas in the past, Cambodia, Viet Nam, China (three times) and India. Other countries visited we did not need visas for: Guatemala, Mexico, Ecuador, The Netherlands [heaps as my wife is from there], do we count Canada?, Puerto Rico, All those British places [England, Scotland, Ireland], Germany, Italy, Korea, Greece, Belgium,…
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colour
For decades I could not understand why fashion houses were not beating down my door for advice and why Narda for so long has thought (and mentioned) something about my colour coordination not being up to snuff and today my doctor said I was colour-blind. Something about not seeing stuff in the blue-green spectrum. I…
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Integrating technology within a new environment
Integrating technology within a new environment.
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Melbourne Again!!!
After nine years in New York I am back in Melbourne.
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Shanghai Still!!!
We had a good stay at the Grand Mercure with a special interest in the loo: heated toilet seat, massage/vibrate, spray wash in various directions – dry; if this was not China (blocking youtube) and not the Shanghai Airport (blocking my uploads to my server) See the video clip, not of anything more than the…
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Shanghai again
We left a few hours late from JFK. At one point they said the airport was closed due to rain and lightening. By the time we got to Shanghai at 10 pm 14 hours later we were pretty stuffed. Fortunately the airport has storage lockers and we were able to leave behind three large suitcases…
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The ‘to-do-list’
It is one of those moments when one realizes the suitcase is still ten-pounds overweight, the last-minute list has few things crossed off of it: ‘Go to Hoboken and change the insurance policy from home-owner to four young computer guys from India are renting our house’, ‘redirect mail to Australia’ which would be fine if…
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145 Blocks
Narda and I left at the same time, 7.15. She got to St. Luke’s School at 8 I got there at 11.30. She took the train I walked which proves the subway is faster than walking 145 blocks. this is a youtube clip which of course does not work in China – where we are…
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Seven More Days
I started keeping track with 19 weeks to go. We were hired via Skype whilst in Shanghai on our return from Christmas in Australia; 31 December 2010, we left New Year’s Day 2011 for NYC. When we heard those last words ‘we would like to hire you both’ we jumped up and down on our…
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Tofu homepage
Created a tofu homepage to accompany my misguided e-book desire to share not only tofu recipes but a whole lot more. Like why was I making tofu in a foreign meat-eating country to begin with. So yes there are stories, including the day a herd of cows broke through a fence and ate my tofu…
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Harlem
like all moves, it was not easy, until it was over, then it seemed easy… by comparison. It was the lead up to moving that was the long process ~ a mere six months. A lot longer than eleven years ago when Narda helped me move out of my home in Christies Beach, South Australia…
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Tofu E-Book Cover
Having been a tofu manufacturer for eight years in South Australia gave me some wisdom, crisis, regrets, insanity, good products, sense of success, sense of failure, and now more than twenty years after making my last batch of tofu commercially I still wonder what it was that I was doing. It was not being a…
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First Steps to Dalian
After being interviewed via Skype in Shanghai 31 December 2010 for jobs at Dalian American International School – we flew to New York the next day – first of January 2011 – we have taken the for-real step of getting there. Today, almost five months later, the shippers collected our many boxes, about 40 of…
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Five more weeks
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Asheville, North Carolina
Asheville, North Carolina McCormick Field home of the The Asheville Tourists where Leigh Neuage pitched for the South Georgia Waves in 2003 in Asheville, North Carolina, in the South Atlantic League. More on Leigh at http://neuage.org/leigh.htm
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The Longest Time and snow in North Carolina
The Longest Time and snow in North Carolina 21 December 2009 North North Carolina outside of Asheville county in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains with Narda and Terrell and listening to “The Longest Time” by Billy Joel and driving through the end of three days of driving through snow from New Jersey down…
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Century Inn
Century Inn Century Inn is at 2175 East National Pike Scenery Hill, PA. We stayed in the ANDREW JACKSON suite, named after the 7th President of the United States who stopped here in 1829 enroute to his first Presidential Inauguration. The food and service and Inn is amazing – read any review on the Internet…
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Lakewood New jersey
Lakewood New jersey I am doing a tour of places Leigh played baseball in 2003 throughout the South over the next two months – I am taking a road trip to South Carolina in December. This first place is Lakewood New Jersey.
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New Island Festival
Half-moon Voyage New York City Harbour Quadricentennial 400th anniversary celebrations of the founding of New York Half-moon Annual Voyage of Discovery with the Halfmoon Replica Ship -Hudson River Valley The original Halfmoon (Halve Maen) was commissioned in 1609 for the Dutch East India Company in hopes to find a passage trade route to the East.…
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Harderwijk The Netherlands
Harderwijk The Netherlands Harderwijk The Netherlands is a village in the Dutch municipality of Opmeer. We spent ten days here and boated a bit on the IJsselmeer what use to be the Zuider Zee shore on the Southern Sea. A great town to stay in and ride bikes heaps. We avoided the tourist trap of…
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Round Lake New York
fire at our 15 Second street cottage in Round Lake New York Our tenant said the dryer was not working so we drove up four hours from Jersey City to our Round Lake cottage. I pushed the button, a spark came out and I walked away then our fire alarms went foul and I went…
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Old Utrecht
Old Utrecht Sitting along the Oude Gracht in old Utrecht the Netherlands. Utrecht is located in the eastern end of the Randstad. The Dom tower is in the centre. Video by Terrell Neuage and Narda Biemond Agust … Sitting along the Oude Gracht in old Utrecht the Netherlands. Utrecht is located in the eastern end…
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Flight Hamburg to Atlanta Georgia
Flight Hamburg to Atlanta Georgia Leaving Germany on Lufthansa flight LH 755 arriving Atlanta and driving in the US of A after weeks in India. Freeways are quite different from the roads in Goa but not as fun. Video by Terrell Neua… Leaving Germany on Lufthansa flight LH 755 arriving Atlanta and driving in the…
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Back Home
What a long trip this has been. The last time Sacha and I were asleep in the same house in New York was in March of 1992. We were visiting my father and brother in Clifton Park. Mum had died several months earlier and the last time we were together with her was in 1984.…
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another
How many blogs can one have? I chose this theme randomly for this blog that will be about our trip back to Australia. We have a house in Ferrara at the end of June for a couple of weeks. I just looked closer at the picture and on the umbrella it says “Ferrara”. How is…
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