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Into the Mass Tourism Beast I Go – Cinque Terre and Pisa (Days 15 & 16 – 8 & 9 June) | Push Bike Diaries

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The view from my saddle. Into the Mass Tourism Beast I Go Cinque Terre and Pisa (Days 15 and 16 8 and 9 June). Travelling solo, and not being inclined to wear obviously branded clothing, I think people are a little confused by me. It’s a thing I notice on the train to Cinque Terre. The few words I speak to the conductor are in Italian. The many English-speaking travellers around me don’t know if I can understand them so I sit there quietly, watching and listening. I wasn’t going to allow my visit to Cinq...

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The Warm Embrace of Friendship Renewed – Firenze (Days 17 – 19; 10 – 12 June) | Push Bike Diaries

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The view from my saddle. The Warm Embrace of Friendship Renewed – Firenze (Days 17 – 19; 10 – 12 June). 10 June 2015 – Wednesday. It rains while I am on the train to Florence. A pelting rain slanting into the Tuscan landscape of green hills, fields of crops and towns whose names escape me. The station in Florence, Santa Maria Novella. Is a huge building from the fascist era – modern and art deco-ish. The main hall is utterly jammed with people through whom I walk my bicycle. Me and Jerry Lee. Jerry Lee l...

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Along the Adige River Toward Old Austria (Days 20 & 21 – 13 & 14 June 2015) | Push Bike Diaries

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The view from my saddle. Along the Adige River Toward Old Austria (Days 20 and 21 – 13 and 14 June 2015). Saturday 13 June Firenze to Verona. I could take the train from Firenze to Verona with changes in Prato and Bologna, but manoeuvring the bicycle and the bags on and off trains and through stations is a pain best avoided when possible. I haven’t ridden in days. I’m keen to get back on the bicycle and just ride. So I set out to cover the 20 or so kilometres to Prato and skip one transfer. She shows me ...

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The Ligurian Coast – Hot, Hilly, Beautiful (Day 14 – 7 June) | Push Bike Diaries

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The view from my saddle. The Ligurian Coast Hot, Hilly, Beautiful (Day 14 – 7 June). Wednesday 10 June: I catch up, then I fall behind, I catch up, then I fall behind. I’m struggling to find the right balance of riding, seeing the places I’m visiting, writing about them/organising my photographs of them and sharing stuff. While I’ve found Italian motorists polite and respectful (waiting patiently to pass and then doing so with a good margin) I am growing weary of sharing the road with so many of them, su...

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Anzac Day – Uralla Style (Day 6 – Saturday 25 April) | Push Bike Diaries

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The view from my saddle. Anzac Day Uralla Style (Day 6 Saturday 25 April). I woke to a big, blue, clear sky. The sun shone strongly and hot; the breeze, especially in the shade, chilly with the plateau’s autumn. They’ve planted many exotic deciduous trees in New England and their red and golden dying leaves frame each roadway. 8220;They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We finished by singing.

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On Letting Light Shine: Horrible Bosses 2, The Counterfeiters and Hanukkah | Learning German with Christoph Waltz

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Learning German with Christoph Waltz. Deutsch lernen mit Christoph Waltz. About (or Why I’m Learning German with Christoph Waltz). On Letting Light Shine: Horrible Bosses 2, The Counterfeiters and Hanukkah. Hanukkah the Jewish festival of lights has ended. One reason I’m learning German. What does any of this has to do with Christoph Waltz,. Read on, bitte. Two Saturdays ago a good mate and I went down to the Randwick Ritz Cinema. To join a surprisingly sizable crowd taking in. Ich bin überrascht, wie vi...

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Naked Liberation at No 42 Lady Bay Beach – 22 February 2015 | Sundays the Beach: Sydney's Beaches from A to Z

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Sundays the Beach: Sydney's Beaches from A to Z. Visiting Sydney's beaches in alphabetical order. Naked Liberation at No 42 Lady Bay Beach – 22 February 2015. Until recently I was dreading Lady Bay. It is the second of, I think, three ‘clothing optional’ beaches in Sydney (this one granted that status in 1976). The first in this project was beach No 13: Cobblers. So it was that my friends were more worried about Lady Bay than I was. The Camp Cove Kiosk. I’m here, no time like the present. Down the st...

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You May Have Your Mansion But the Beach is There for All – No 41, Kutti (1 February 2015) | Sundays the Beach: Sydney's Beaches from A to Z

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Sundays the Beach: Sydney's Beaches from A to Z. Visiting Sydney's beaches in alphabetical order. You May Have Your Mansion But the Beach is There for All – No 41, Kutti (1 February 2015). Kutti Beach is in Vaucluse, long the most affluent of Sydney suburbs and still in the top five. Prior to European colonisation the area was home to the Birrabirragal clan of the Dharug language group. They named the whole area, now called Watsons Bay, Kutti. I am set to meet Tom Allen. Having Googled Kutti before comin...

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A Riot of Kookaburras and Cerulean Seas – No 40 Jibbon (4 January 2015) | Sundays the Beach: Sydney's Beaches from A to Z

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Sundays the Beach: Sydney's Beaches from A to Z. Visiting Sydney's beaches in alphabetical order. A Riot of Kookaburras and Cerulean Seas – No 40 Jibbon (4 January 2015). The strange summer continues as I’ve had to skip another (and hopefully the last) of the Hawkesbury beaches which can only be reached from the water. I will visit number 39, Hungry Beach, along with numbers 35 (Gunyah – Brooklyn) and 37 (Hallets) in due course. And I had dinner we fell into conversation with Carla and Boris, recently ar...

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Holy Feck – That was hard (Day 3 – Tuesday 21 April) | Push Bike Diaries

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The view from my saddle. Holy Feck That was hard (Day 3 Tuesday 21 April). The number of kilometres I’m meant to be covering keeps going up and yet I’m not completing them. That said I feel like the kilometres I’ve been doing are so much harder than one might expect that they are equal to double or triple the number of easy kilometres. It did a bit and I pushed on. The pavement ended and the hoped-for good-quality gravel road was nowhere to be found lumpy, rocky, corrugated. Rivulets of brown wat...For l...