Category: Australia

  • Koala Hugs

    Koala Hugs

    One cannot come to Australia and leave without having received a koala hug. In fact, I had no other major plans for Brisbane except to visit the famous Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary with its hundred or so koalas. It certainly didn’t look like much up front, there were no brightly colored sculptures nor nicely paved…

  • Happy New Year

    Happy New Year

      (I borrowed this photo from The Guardian cuz it’s much prettier than anything I can take.) It was the best of years, it was the worst of years. As I sit under the shade of a beautiful tree in Hyde Park, Sydney on January 1, 2013, a few hours before the new year even…