This article caught my attention today: “SkyRider airline seats pack fliers into 23 inches of space“. The seat is “like a saddle.” Like this: My first thought: They Can’t Be Serious. My second thought: would asking for stirrups be considered an Upgrade?
Today was the Festival of the Winds at Bondi Beach.
Here’s a downside to moving abroad that one doesn’t give much thought to during the excitement of a new city and a new job and a new climate – it’s called Taxes. You do them in April and think phew, glad that’s over. And then you move to Australia and learn that the tax year …
My name is Franklin. I live in Brisbane with my mums, Tammy and Anna. This is me on my favorite Gators blanket. If my mums would let me have a Facebook account, I would use this as my profile picture. We had visitors the other weekend from Sydney. Their names were Gina and Dena. They …
Gina and Limpin’ Leigh went to the gym the other day and spotted this sign: Some questions are better not asked.
Cockroaches in Australia can fly. We know this for two reasons: (1) Neighbor Cynthia educated us to this fact after receiving our initial 911 (or in Australia, 000) text regarding Cory’s presence in our home and (2) we think Cory must have used those wings as he was being flung off the deck, as his …
31 July 2010 Last weekend’s destination: Bulli Beach, a slightly less than two hour train ride south of Sydney. The weather forecast was looking decent so we packed up the backpacks, grabbed the tent, and headed to the train station. It may seem like no big deal to go camping in July, but that’s only …
I was just starting to enjoy my evening home alone when I caught some movement out of the corner of my eye. In Australia, this is never a good thing. And sure enough, it wasn’t. Tonight’s special (uninvited) guest? Cory the Cockroach. This is the after picture. The after-he-caught-my-eye-and-ran-away-only-to-come-back-and-get-captured-only-now-what-in-the-tarnation-am-I-going-to-do-with-him photo. From tail end to antennae …
For those who may be wondering how the July weather statistics finally stacked up here in Sydney, here are a few quotes from the Australian Government’s Bureau of Meteorology to wrap up the month: “Wettest July since 2006.” (A total of 4.5 inches recorded.) “Highest number of rainy days since 1959.” (That would be a …
Convinced that we may have brought Seattle’s rainy weather along with us to Sydney, where the other day it was raining so hard that crossing Elizabeth Street downtown was reminiscent of last summer’s adventure fording the rivers in Iceland (particularly as the rainwater crested the top of my shoes and I wished for my trekking …