The Compleat Traveller

I don’t know about you dear reader, but I spend far too much time online. Some of my online discoveries find their way onto this blog in...

Screen grab from The Guardian Ouch! Look at that headline from The Guardian online this past Saturday, April 1st. For a moment or two...

Tree form (detail). Click here to see the full work...   During my stay in Melbourne in January, I paid a visit (as I always do), ...

So there I was at 10:32 am, sitting in theatre 13 at my local Megaplex waiting for the 10:15 am start of Dallas Buyers Club , and wonderi...

The Morning Star, Venus, hovers above a rising sun My photographs today, feature a selection of images taken during the early morning ...

Oh, dear. How could Apple get it so wrong? The problems with Apple’s new Maps app just won’t go away. In fact they seem to just go from b...

Welcome to my weekly roundup of the some of the more interesting discoveries I’ve made as I wander the digital highways and byways of the In...

Sean Condon is a master of the quick quip, an eye-catching headline, and a connoisseur of the finest pomades*. As a young copywriter in an u...

One of the fascinating things about nature, and the creatures that inhabit what is left of our wild places and natural landscapes, is how th...

George Lesses (January 4, 1941 – May 10, 2011) “I only have two kinds of days – good days and better days. And today is a better day.” ~...

Image: Portrait of Cpt. James Cook by Nathaniel Dance, courtesy of Wikipedia… Captain Cook chased a chook all around Australia, He lo...

Image courtesy of Wikipedia… Raise a glass today to Charles Sturt (28 April, 1795 – 16 June 1869). Sturt was born in India, and among his...

Victoria Square fountain, Adelaide Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. ~ Requiem , Robert Louis Steven...

Close: War Memorial clock tower and angel In 1925 this war memorial and clock tower commemorating those who fell during the First World ...

Signage on Stuart Highway heading north from Adelaide ... There's a great tradition still taking place on Australian country roads t...