I loved my Singapore Airlines ‘Elite Gold’ card. Suddenly, International airports transitioned from being places where food and drink were wildly overpriced, …
Travel
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Forests that have disappeared so completely that you would hardly believe they really existed, have long fascinated me. When I left my …
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New Zealand Geology
New Zealand’s Hawks Crag Breccia – prelude to the drift from Gondwana
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe New Zealand road network has some seriously quirky idiosyncrasies – little things we locals take for granted, but can cause some …
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Women, so I’ve read (and seem to observe), are significantly more likely to take ‘selfies’ than men. It doesn’t seem to matter …
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In five years or so in and out of Mongolia, I’ve criss-crossed thousands of kilometres by 4WD Landcruiser. But I’ve only taken …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
The Log Cabin at the Heart of St Petersburg, Russia
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe most famous ‘little log cabin in the woods’ is probably the one in which Abraham Lincoln grew up in Kentucky. It …
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Autobiography & Travel
Cheap Eats Nanjing 24 – the Mysterious Vanishing Sushi Shop
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIt happens so often. I chance across a place in a city – then fruitlessly search high and low for it again. …
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I noticed Miss Tasha when it opened. But for quite a while I kept walking past – I wasn’t sure what it …
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Boring weekends, I’d sometimes head around the block to a little bakery in Danfeng St. I’d pick up a little selection of …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Once a Vast Forest – Motatapu Track, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleEarly on a cool Sunday morning I sipped my latte outside Relishes Cafe, Wanaka, and thought the immediate view could be better. …

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