Conventions And Conversions

IF YOU’RE NEW TO THE SITE, PLEASE READ THIS FIRST. I started this blog to write about my 2013 trip on the Trans-Mongolian Express. Its first expansion was to include my June 2012 trip to Malta. The momentum from that …

Sydney in the time before humans (Sydney and me supplement one)

As it can be with other cities it’s tricky to isolate the geology of a continent to a specific area so, before I try to zoom in on Sydney, I’ll begin by taking a brief broader look at Australia’s interesting …

Notes on the XXVII Olympiad (Sydney and me addendum 2)

The Other End of the Telescope In the course of this series I’ve written about many Olympic champions – Birgit Fischer being the most recent. Some might consider it a stretch to deem Eric Moussambani Malonga (sometimes called Eric the …

Notes on the XXVII Olympiad (Sydney and me addendum 1)

The Summer Games returned to Australia a mere forty-four years after Melbourne served as the host city when Sydney came from behind to win the bid over Beijing on the fourth round of voting in 1993. The other bidders were …