by Neil So, Hanoi has this great tradition, custom, ritual, whatever you wish to call it called Bia Hoi. This translates as "New Beer" and it's pretty straight forward. Beer is brewed at the brewery in Hanoi with no preservatives added, so the beer has a shelf life of less than 24 hours. Vendors collect …
Singapore
By Pippa We arrived in Singapore on the 29th of March. Like in the Cook Islands and Sri Lanka, Singapore is humid. Very, very humid. Also, Singapore is like one gigantic garden! Since it's so humid plants can pretty much grow rampant, but the gardeners keep it looking fantastic! The weird thing was when we arrived …
Adelaide Murals
By Neil Like many major cities, Adelaide has its fair share of graffiti. Whatever your views on the artistic merits of this form of expression it's fair to say that not everyone appreciates it and it is not going anywhere soon. The question is always one of how a city administration responds. In Adelaide, there …
Cleland Wildlife Park
By Pippa On Friday the 23rd of March, I went to Cleland Wildlife Park. The bus ride was a little long, but it was totally worth it! I saw Tasmanian devils, different types of wallabies, lizards, snakes, all sorts of birds, wombats, echidnas and dingo’s! I even got to feed kangaroos, emus and bandicoots. The …
Hahndorf
By Pippa Sarjeant-Jenkins You may not have heard of Hahndorf before, but if you are ever in Adelaide you should definitely go. It’s a quaint little place with lots of shops. What I really like about it is the fact that pretty much every building still has its old traits. It is/was a German settlement, …
The best way to get soaked
Here is the best way to get soaked and have fun at the same time. You go on a luge down a mountain when its raining. You go around the curves at breakneck speed so that your luge slips and almost flips over. It gives you that epic rush of adrenaline. You race people so …
Reflections on the Cook Islands
by Neil Reflections on the Cook Islands Rarotonga, capital of the Cook Islands is a rare slice of paradise at first glance. I could see myself living there----almost. It is a place of contrasts that juxtaposes the idyllic with the distasteful. Christianity arrived relatively late in the Cook Islands, with the first missionaries arriving in …
A year of discovery 