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Mike Pole

From New Zealand. Traveling the weyward path trying to figure out how the world works. I study fossil plants, past climates, travel, walk, hike, read, take photos, struggle with computer graphics and plant trees.

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    How You Can Predict Bushfires in Australia – Four Days Out

    by Mike Pole November 11, 2019
    by Mike Pole November 11, 2019

    Tomorrow, Tuesday Nov 12, 2019 is looking very bad for south-east Australia (especially New South Wales, but also parts of Queensland, Victoria …

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  • History/ArchaeologyTravel

    That Rich Woman in the Slovenian Forest

    by Mike Pole November 10, 2019
    by Mike Pole November 10, 2019

    We don’t know what she looked like, because most of her upper body has vanished…. Most of you probably don’t know of …

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    A Chilling Thought about Travel – is it mostly Hoarding?

    by Mike Pole November 6, 2019
    by Mike Pole November 6, 2019

    Seven months of travelling nearly done, and I’m siting in a plane, about to watch a documentary on Martin Phillipps of ‘The …

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    A Postcard from the Pripyat, Belarus

    by Mike Pole July 15, 2019
    by Mike Pole July 15, 2019

    The young woman walked up to me, and, without a word, began rearranging the coins on my hand…. *** References to the …

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    Belarus – and that ‘Registration Thing’

    by Mike Pole June 4, 2019
    by Mike Pole June 4, 2019

    The passport control officer at Minsk Airport seemed genuinely shocked to see me (well, OK, I can have that effect on people). …

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  • Travel

    Excuse me, I’m looking for the bog – Yelnya, Belarus

    by Mike Pole May 8, 2019
    by Mike Pole May 8, 2019

    This all started in Minsk with my CouchSurfing host Alex’s Mum, Olga. Alex wasn’t home from his tutoring work, so Olga thought …

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  • Travel

    Desperately Seeking Cool Cafes in Odesa, Ukraine

    by Mike Pole April 30, 2019
    by Mike Pole April 30, 2019

    My first impression of Odesa was not good. It was back in 2006 when I was merely transiting on the way to …

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  • Travel stories

    Magic on the Night Train to Odesa, Ukraine

    by Mike Pole April 8, 2019
    by Mike Pole April 8, 2019

    “Only First-Class!” Well darn, that wasn’t in the script – there were no other berths on the train from Poltava to Odesa. …

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  • ForestsTravel

    The antifragile (?) tree-ferns of Omatepe, Nicaragua

    by Mike Pole January 27, 2019
    by Mike Pole January 27, 2019

    “We’ll follow these guys – they’re three local hoodlums”, This from my local guide on Omatepe Island, Nicaragua. I was sitting behind …

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    One Night in San Salvador (El Salvador)

    by Mike Pole January 14, 2019
    by Mike Pole January 14, 2019

    The first Salvadorean who I asked about visiting his country advised me to avoid its capital, San Salvador, entirely. “I love my …

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  • Home
  • About me
  • Contact me
  • Categories
    • Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest
    • Fire
    • Travel
    • Forests
    • New Zealand plant fossils
    • New Zealand Geology
    • History/Archaeology
    • Supernatural
    • Cheap Eats Nanjing
  • Places
    • Australia
    • Armenia
    • Bosnia
    • Brazil
    • Canary Island
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Turkey
    • Estonia
    • France
    • Georgia
    • Germany
    • Lebanon
    • Mexico
    • Mongolia
    • Kazakhstan
    • Russia
    • Uganda
    • New Zealand
    • India
    • South Africa