can’t think of anything better on a mild summer’s day than a trip to the beach and a spot of lunch at one of my favourite beachside restaurants, open to the sea breezes. I ask myself why we travel to exotic places when we have it all here? And it’s even more of a treat …
am and Ken’s invitation for a ‘simple steak on the BBQ’, for a few friends who went with us to Tasmania last month, unexpectedly turned into an entertaining evening of “Poetry Reading”. Fellow traveller Father Steve arrived carrying a book of poems by Seamus Heaney, the Irish Nobel Laureate who died last week . . …
he natural harbour of Fowey in this medieval town in southern Cornwall has been home to china clay exporters and tin and copper traders with Europe for centuries. Pirates made it a haven whereas the English managwd to keep the French and Dutch attackers at bay. Like us, sailing in from Cork in Ireland this …
am, in an orange scarf under her black windcheater, is the closest thing to look like a puffin on our Puffin Island adventure today. The inviting prose to “enjoy the dramatic coastline while photographing tens of thousands of puffins” didn’t exactly materialise – we spotted four in the water when they were not diving under. …
Moslem Catholic Viewpoints – refreshing for a change! It’s so refreshing to hear a moderate Muslim cleric, Imam Mohammad Abdullah, Director of Griffith University (Queensland) Islamic Research Unit; and Mark Coleridge., a straight-talking Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, respond so openly to very difficult ‘contemporary’ issues facing the world we live in. have edited a …