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As pretty as an airport*

Airports aren’t known for their aesthetics – well, apart from Vancouver which is outstanding – but I discovered that we do have at least one very nicely designed airport in Western Australia, and in an unlikely place.

Why I think Geraldton is an unlikely place no doubt comes from some regional prejudice I must harbour towards the town which I haven’t rated for it’s design qualities in the past (although the new foreshore is a dramatic improvement).

It’s the Greenough airport, and it is a very pleasant experience indeed.  High ceilings, an aquarium, a display of aeronautic history – it feels more like a trendy museum than an airport.

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*The title of this post comes from this quote:

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression ‘as pretty as an airport.’ —Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, 1988

A rose by any other name

At the airport a couple of weeks ago I was sharing a table at the cafe with a rather good looking chap who was on his way to Cloudbreak.

Cloudbreak, I thought, doesn’t that sound like a lovely destination…
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Well it is, if you like mining operations.

I guess calling it “big pile of red dirt” isn’t quite the same.

I danced after I watched this

Once again, I may be the last person on the planet to have seen this clip but even if you’ve seen it before it is worth watching again – just for the sheer joy of it.


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo

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When to let your teenager off the leash

Today is Hugamuga’s Independence Day.

Adventure World Dec 22nd 2002 005
This is Hugamuga in 2002, a somewhat younger version – aged 8, I wouldn’t have let him go alone at this age. 🙂

Today, he met his friends on the train, travelled to Adventure World (two trains and a bus), enjoyed the day with his mates and returned home. He was responsible for organising himself, his money and his lunch. I did ask that he ring me when he left home so I knew he was on the road (and could begin worrying). He’s 13.

It was a scheme dreamed up by his friends at school. This one mate worked out the plan and invited his classmates and then whoever showed up showed up. Four showed up.

They had a blast. Roaming Adventure World in a little pack. I asked Hugamuga:

“So is it more fun with there with his mates or his family” (we go every year for a work Christmas party)
“Oh with my family of course!”
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“Definitely with my mates!”

Yeah right.

My heart was in my mouth. Sure it’s just a mum cutting another of the apron strings (guffaws of laughter from friends imagining me wearing an apron), another step towards independence… but it was a milestone.

Not that I wrap the kids in cotton wool. I’ve let them walk to the corner shop on their own for years. I encourage them to walk to school, to their friends houses. Hugamuga rides his bike to training on his own…

Two trains and a bus.

W00t.

Broome Sunrise

The sun rises this morning over Roebuck Bay. I look out from in front of the apartments I’m staying in, over the mangroves. The grass is wet and my crocs (oh I know – just as bad as uggys) let the water in to my feet.

The air is warm and wet, heavy and still. It is about 26 degrees and only just 7am.
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I walk across the grass, get into my little hire car and go to work.

Another day in the Kimberley.

Back home baby!

Yes I’m home. Reluctantly boarding the plane after walking through the airport which looks like a pub… a tropical resort pub.

Hey guess what? I was randomly selected to…

… no, not move into Business Class. I wish…

… get tested for explosives! Because you know, I look highly suspect. Yes, yes the man was quite pleasant, said he was checking to see if anyone had tampered with my luggage – but you still feel a bit well, special, not in a good way.
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As expected I was clear to go. An interesting experience but not as nice as the explosive puffy machine in the Statue of Liberty which made my hair go floolf. Nothing like a little floolf I’ve always said…

Anyway I’m waiting for my Flip to download some videos… yawn… back soon when they are cooked. 🙂

Sandflies and Geckos

I’m in Broome.  At the station.  Sitting at the kitchen table with my laptop.  There’s a quiet moment.  My meetings still an hour away so I thought I’d check in with you my lovelies and get you up to date with my travels.

Arrived yesterday around 6pm.  It was HOT.  Sure it’s hot in Perth but add 67-70% or more humidity and it really is offensively hot.  I was wearing jeans and high heels and my feet started slipping in them within seconds.

Broome airport by the way, isn’t airconditioned.  It looks like a resort hotel, Kimberley style.  All corrugated iron and pergola like timber decoration.  Palm trees and yeah, that relaxed, slip into Broome time feel.

Found my little hire car on the grass lawn at the side of the car park and then drove around reaquainting myself with the town – I haven’t been here since 1994.

Sun Pictures – the outdoor cinema – isn’t where I remember it.  My mind must have been playing tricks on me.  The shopping areas of Old Broome are lovely – although all closed by 6 last night.  Covered verandahs, corrugated iron, a real colonial feel.  Okay I’ll take some photos and add them in later.

I’m staying at Moonlight Bay Residential Apartments.  And they are pretty nice.  Apparently some have spas.  Mine doesn’t.  It has a pool and a big grassed area that looks over the mangrove to the sea.
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We went to Zanders for tea last night.  Zanders is next door to the Cable Beach Resort and overlooks Cable Beach.  It’s one of those modern cafe style restaurants, licensed.  I had a chicken laksa which was good.  Overly sized and I couldn’t finish it though.

One of my favourite things so far is Goolari TV.  A community station run by the local Aboriginal broadcaster Goolari Media.  Really engaging, local stories.  Made you feel you were in Broome.

Have I mentioned I’m in Broome?

Shared my shower with a little gecko – that’s supposed to be good luck.

Got to work and saw the sandfly bites on one of the techs – he’s allergic to their wee or something.  Nasty!

The bitch in the machine

I know it seems harsh but that is what we have taken to calling Miss Neverlost, the know-it-all voice from the GPS thingy in our hire car. Especially when she doesn’t have the roads we want to go to or takes us to some weird other road of the same name. We love it when a new road or bypass has been built and it looks as if we’re flying or going cross country on her little screen as she valiantly asks us to “make a legal u-turn as soon as possible” or to “proceed to the highlighted route” (pronounced rowt) over and over until we shut down her volume.

However she does work tirelessly and if I do get a little frustrated by her slow and unintuitive keypad, inside that little box I’m sure I’ve heard her sigh.

“Alright then do it your way you turkeys – just don’t blame me if you end up somewhere in Alaska…”

BIM has taken us now all the way through Charleston and Savannah into Florida, named you might be interested in by Juan Ponce de Leon, who when he landed on what he thought was an island named it after its prolific flowers in 1513. He was in search of the Fountain of Youth and thought he discovered it, but as we discovered when we sipped from said spring – all he got was a slightly sulfuric beverage of average taste.

Do I feel younger? No.

Is it a tourist trap? Yes. But hey, we’re in the States.

And about to embark on a journey into the biggest tourist trap of all time: DisneyWorld.

But let me take you back aways to Charleston. Yes Gone with the Wind territory.

Tara! Home. I’ll go home. And I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all… tomorrow is another day.

A town that has survived Civil War, Earthquakes, Fires and in 1989, Hurricane Hugo. Some of the buildings bear the remnants of those disasters. A church spire still leaning from the Earthquake in 1886.  Bolts through the sides of houses to hold them together.
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Charleston

The houses are cute. They call them single houses because they are one room wide and they have these verandahs down the side of the house facing the sea to catch the breezes. There is a door on the street end of the verandah called a privacy door and if it’s closed it means don’t look on the balcony!

They also paint the ceiling of these verandahs with sky blue paint. Some call it haint blue – or ghost blue – as it is said to frighten away ghosts by making them think it is daytime. In reality it is supposed to deter wasps and hornets from making their nests. It stuffs up their perception or something.

Savannah is beautiful. I’m in love with Spanish moss which hangs like soft mistletoe from the branches of the overhanging oak trees. It is a shady seedy city full of the resonance of its colourful history, and familiar because of all the films made their including most famously Forrest Gump and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Savannah

OMG it’s midnight. I still haven’t worked out a way to upload my photos nor put my little films online but dear internet, it ain’t going to happen tonight.

Tomorrow I need to have my Disney smile on because being grumpy and tired at DisneyWorld – well that’s just not Disney is it?

UPDATE: Disney was great. Classic. You have to do it.

But we also did Universal Studios…

Universal Studios

Universal Studios

Freedom through eye-wear

Still on public transport in Melbourne – I’ve caught a train and a tram now – it occurs to me that society wouldn’t function as well if it wasn’t for sunglasses. Sunglasses, especially those with reflective lenses, allow you to examine your fellow passengers without feeling self conscious or rude.

Well perhaps a little self conscious…

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Could you be looking at me?

Bibliotravel

I loved this site! (And thanks to Meish for the link)

It’s something I do anyway – seek out books that talk about places when I visit them. Usually I find them after I’ve been there which is irritating. Sometimes I plan trips around places I’ve read about – Jane Austen got me to Bath for example. I read Pompeii by Robert Harris in Pompeii, Leon Uris’s Agony and Ecstasy in Florence (about Michelangelo), Miss Garnet’s Angel by Salley Vickers took me to Venice and on it goes.

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