Paul's Oriental Travelogue

Crispy and Creamy

If you'd asked me two weeks ago, I would have guessed the Jungle Brothers were dead or in prison or at least retired. But no, they're touring Australia. And tonight they're just up George Street at the Metro Theatre, so...
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Collect all Five

Sydney looks like about ten times the city Melbourne is. But what's with the public transport? Buses, trains, trams, subways, and ... a monorail? Are they playing Bingo?...
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One Horse Town

I've updated the whole site to use sensible URLs instead of serial numbers for entry filenames. Thus the permanent link to this entry is "http://travelogue.comeuppance.org/archives/2004/05/one_horse_town.html" instead of like "000473.html". I also mucked with the country and weekly archive URLs. This...
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The Grass is Greener

Can-berra, Can-berra, Can-berra. I want to go to Canberra! This mantra I sang in my mind, to the tune of Queen's "Bicycle", during the over-long over-night bus ride from Melbourne to Australia's renowned capital city. The proper pronunciation of Canberra...
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Can't Beat Melbourne

Australian rules football is the kind of extreme chaos that could only be accomplished with two evenly matched teams of scantily clad men, a ball that behaves like wet soap, and tens of thousands of fans who know exactly what...
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