sunnuntai 17. helmikuuta 2019

G’day from Australia mates!

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travel time 16 days
distance travelled 14,671 km
sent by Drasko, Sunny Coast

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Red kangaroos
travel time 25 days
distance travelled 14,747 km
sent by Brett in Adelaide

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 Wool
travel time 12 days
distance travelled 14,438 km
sent by Sarah in Flinders Ranges 

Beef cattle
Direct swap
sent by Tom in Perth

lauantai 16. helmikuuta 2019

Nature trails


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 Dove Lake, Tasmania. Australia
travel time 12 days
distance travelled 13,291 km
sent by Vimal in Perth

Dove Lake is a corrie lake near Cradle Mountain in the central highlands region of Tasmania, Australia. It lies in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park. 

The Cradle mountain is  one of Australia’s most spectacular World Heritage areas and offers two hiking options – a challenging six day course or a shorter, easier four day walk.



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The Twelve Apostles,  Victoria, Australia
travel time 27 days
distance travelled 13,294 km
sent by Saskia in Perth

The Twelve Apostles is a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of the Port Campbell National Park, by the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia.

 The Twelve Apostles Lodge walk is a trail alive with native bushland and wildlife, taking you through a variety of landscapes along the spectacular coastline between Apollo Bay and the iconic Twelve Apostles. 


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The Boulders - Babinda -North Queensland, Australia
travel time 14 days
distance travelled 14,730 km
sent by Gwen in Brisbane

Devil's Pool or Babinda Boulders is a natural pool at the confluence of three streams among a group of boulders near Babinda, Queensland, Australia. The feature is regarded as cursed in local folklore due to the substantial number of deaths that have occurred there; a popular story involves a curse placed by an Aboriginal woman. 

Babinda Boulders is a 1.3 kilometer out and back trail located near Lake Barrine, Queensland, Australia that offers the chance to see wildlife. The trail is rated as moderate and is primarily used for walking and nature trips.





perjantai 15. helmikuuta 2019

Silo and Urban Art, Australia

In the last few years some extraordinary artworks have appeared across Australia. The unlikely canvases for these works are the towering grain silos that dominate numerous small wheat-growing country towns.

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 Ravensthorpe, Western Australia
travel time 18 days
distance travelled 14,747 km
Sent by Marge in Cornubia QLD

 "Six Stages of Banksia baxteri" is a 25 metre high wildflower inspired mural painted across three silos in Ravensthorpe, Western Australia.  Artist Amok Island  (born Amsterdam, 1983) is a multi-disciplinary artist from the Netherlands, based in Fremantle, Western Australia. Amok Island has created murals in over 25 countries worldwide and exhibited his work in Australia, the Netherlands and Japan.




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 Thallon, Queensland, Australia
Art by Drapl and The  Zookeeper,
travel time 11 days
distance travelled 14,747 km
Sent by Jacqui in Brisbane

The Silo Art stamp issue, designed by Janet Boschen Design and released on 21 May 2018, features four examples of silo art from across the country.


Graffiti and urban art 
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Railway Terrace, Adelaide, Australia. 
Portrait by Vans the Omega, Adelaide, 2015
travel time 23 days
distance travelled 14,890 km
Sent by Peter in  Lismore



Beautiful Australia and Gurrumul's amazing, soulful voice.
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was a charting, award-winning singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Australia. At the time of his passing he was the best-known Aboriginal musician in Australia's history, with multi-platinum album success as proof.

torstai 14. helmikuuta 2019

People at work

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Sogenji Monastery,  Zen school and working monastery in Okayama, Japan
Resident monks begging for alms
travel time 9 days
distance travelled 7,763 km
sent by Maggie in Seattle, Washington 
(in July 2018 she was traveling in Japan)


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Electrician in important work, photo by MIRO
travel time 13 days
distance travelled 7,681 km
sent by Midori in Kobe

keskiviikko 13. helmikuuta 2019

Japanese art

Art by Katsushika Hokusai 

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travel time 7 days
distance travelled 7,764 km
sent by Jun in Tokyo

Katsushika Hokusai (1760 –  1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Edo (now Tokyo)


Art by Torii Kiyonaga. Three Beauties after Bath.
 Originally in Edo era

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travel time 13 days
distance travelled 7,702 km
sent by Ryoko in Osaka


Art by Suzuki Harunobu

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travel time 20 days
distance travelled 7,633 km
sent by Yumiko in Okayama

Tokugawa period, also called Edo period, (1603–1867), the final period of traditional Japan, a time of internal peace, political stability, and economic growth under the shogunate (military dictatorship) founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu.

maanantai 11. helmikuuta 2019

Shirakawa-go, Japan



Traditional thatched houses in historic village of Shirakawa-go.  Japan. UNESCO WHS
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travel time 26 days
distance travelled 7,763 km
sent by Mathilde

Located in a mountainous region that was cut off from the rest of the world for a long period of time, these villages with their Gassho-style houses subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and the rearing of silkworms. The large houses with their steeply pitched thatched roofs are the only examples of their kind in Japan. Despite economic upheavals, the villages of Ogimachi, Ainokura and Suganuma are outstanding examples of a traditional way of life perfectly adapted to the environment and people's social and economic circumstances.



 Scenery in northern Japan
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travel time 9 days
distance travelled 7,715 km.
sent by Eriko in Mito, Japan

An oil painting depicting a traditional farm house with a thatched roof by Mukai Junkichi 1901~1995. Mukai endeavored to depict traditional farm houses still intact nationwide from northern to southern Japan.


lauantai 9. helmikuuta 2019

Movie Night

Sherlock Holmes and  Dr.Watson 
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travel time 12 days
distance travelled 1,028 km
sent by Natali in Minsk 

Christmas with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson 
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travel time 24 days
distance travelled 1,187 km
sent by Irina in Losino-Petrovsky


 Sherlock (2010) Martin Freeman as Watson. illustration Olga Kuprina.
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travel time 12 days
distance travelled 6,805 km
sent by Amy in Charlottesville, Virginia

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
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travel time 9 days
distance travelled 7,351 km
sent by Rebecca in Seattle, Washington

Sherlock is a British crime drama television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, it stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. 

Have an exciting movie night :)