Medecins sans frontieres (MSF, or doctors without borders) are doorknocking in Abbotsford at the moment. They knocked on ours today and the bloke said only 2 in 50 people whose doors had been knocked had heard of them. They’re good people, very good — they pulled me out of Lhasa once in a four wheel [...]
I came across this attractive blog about streetfood in Saigon, more correctly known now as Ho Chi Minh city. It will serve as a useful touchstone in the cutting edge investigative journalism this blog will engage in in answering the question: is Victoria St’s food Chinese or Vietnamese? Meanwhile, just enjoy it. For balance, [...]
When I was a kid and Mary Delahunty was an ABC radio announcer, and firemen were not yet heroic soldiers caught in the cross fires of the war on terror my old man would drive past the Metropolitan Fire Brigade training facility (which is now best identified as being diagonally opposite Victoria Gardens, just near [...]
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