Are Australian lives and property being burnt as a result of something that happened tends of thousands of years ago? In 1994 …
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Autobiography & Travel
Cheap Eats Nanjing 14 – All You Can Eat – and Drink!
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleNot really one of the cheapest – by local standards, but hear me out….. This place is called Jinfushan, it’s an all …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
New Zealand: The Jurassic fossil forest at Curio Bay
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIf you make your way down to almost the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island, you can walk among the stumps of …
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I was sitting in a ger in Mongolia when I put up my hand to go to Indonesia. My ulterior motive was …
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I’ve seen two cities that look like they were comprehensively destroyed. I don’t mean just ruins, but places where someone seems to …
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This place is part of a chain called Huiwei. I first came across them elsewhere in Nanjing and for a couple of …
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Autobiography & Travel
Mongolia – Nights under the nine stars of the Pleiades
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleErik von Daniken’s ‘Chariots of the Gods’ came to my town when I was a kid. Alexandra, New Zealand was perhaps a …
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Europe to Australasia is long-haul, and if you are not into heroics, it’s nice to break the journey somewhere. I wonder how …
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Autobiography & Travel
Cheap Eats Nanjing 12 – Sticky Rice Cake and other nibblies
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI spotted this little take-away cake shop one evening after getting a cheese fix opposite. Pleasant woman in charge and bunch of …
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Estonia was my first-ever experience of driving, by myself, on the right hand side of the road. I tried to keep it simple. All I …

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