First off, a brief piece of geography. Tasmania is an island state, about half the size of England (not, I hasten to add, the UK) located 240km off the south coast of Australia. It was a part of Australia until as recently as 10,000 years ago, when the last ice age ended. That was brief […]
Archives for July 2010
Three of the Best Australian Day Hikes
Europe is continuing to astound with its ongoing comedic definition of summer, which whilst being bad news for me and my desires to explore more mountains, may be good news for you in that I can continue on from yesterdays post on the Northern Territory, and talk further about parts of my trip around Australia. […]
Memories of Oz: The NT
Well, the dreams of a glorious summer in Europe have slightly faded this week, and been replaced by a rather wet and grey summer in Europe. I’m sure this will pick up, but since it is raining, there isn’t a whole lot of exploring to be done, so I will instead wax lyrically about some […]