Melbourne gets a new Subway Line – but still has the same ancient Myki Card
10 January 2026 | Transport
Melbourne has a new subway line – the Metro Tunnel – running through five new stations and currently having a soft opening, before the schedule launches full tilt on 1 February 2026. The new Parkville Station will probably be the most useful new station, since it’s at...
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Other Places I Visited in 2024
24 January 2025 | Places
My 2024 travels featured walking in Australia (The Three Capes Track in Tasmania) and England (The Thames Path). My English travels also took me to that very popular tourist county of Cornwall. Before arriving in England I visited three interesting African countries: ...
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Summer in Melbourne
6 February 2023 | Living
The Melbourne daily newspaper The Age asked me to say what summer in the city meant to me. So now that summer is almost over – down here in the southern hemisphere – here it is, my Melbourne Summer.
What does a Victorian/Melbourne summer mean to you? – it’s so easy...
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Time Rone Melbourne – & Ruins Porn & Chernobyl
10 November 2022 | Culture
In the abandoned ballroom level of the Flinders St Train Station in the centre of Melbourne, Australia-renowned street artist Rone has created Time-Rone an exhibition running until 23 April 2023. It’s not just Rone, he corralled a team of creators with a big budget – ...
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Tony’s Coronavirus Notes & Novak Djokovic
16 January 2022 | Living
Lots of Covid-19
Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security report noted recently that Greece (3,418), Ireland (3,927), San Marino (4,364), Andorra (4,554) and Cyprus (4,855) had all set new records for ‘per capita incidence per million population of new C...
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