Peter has retired and he decided to volunteer in a school in Colombia South America to teach English. His experiences in getting there were covered in our first story here. Since I last wrote I would like you to know……
Designing Your Life The Stanford University in the USA has a course called “Designing your life.” It seems to have come from asking student what they planned to do next in their life and getting too many “I really don’t……
Peter travelled to Colombia to begin teaching English and found some travel plans just don’t work the way you think they will.
I knew I was moving to the Gold Coast to retire, but I had no real idea what that might look like. My wife knew of an English conversation class at Surfers Paradise so she went to check it out.……
Where are we? Unless your geography is better than mine, or you have been cruising around Australia in the last couple of years, I doubt that you have ever heard of the town of Alotau. The name means “peaceful bay”.……
About an hours drive north from Cairns, through some fantastic coastal scenery, is the sleepy little town of Mossman. With a population of about 1700 people, it may have little to commend it as a hot spot for visitors, but……
Which One Should I buy? I was visiting my local hardware store the other day to get some AA batteries. I noticed several brands of alkaline batteries and lots of different prices. As usual, I stood there and asked myself……
I was driving to church on Sunday but was aware I had lots of things to do before church began. So I began to think I’ll miss some of the singing – and surely that’s not so bad in the……
A Magnificent Place. “Kings Canyon” sounds grand and so it is, but it’s also a very long way from anywhere. Almost in the geographic centre of Australia, as you stand on the top of the canyon, the nearest town to……
In central Queensland, about 570 km northwest of Brisbane, is an often overlooked national park called Blackdown Tablelands National Park. We visited the area on the recommendation of a miner we met in a local motel after our visit to……