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We’re up for an award!
The Canadian Blog Awards http://cdnba.wordpress.com/ have announced the short list for each category and we are in the top 5 for Best New Blog! So, everyone, please vote at Take Our Poll And spread the word among your Facebook/twitter/ real … Continue reading
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do they know it’s Chrissie?
In the Aussie tradition of shortening and ee-ing everything, we are now in the throes of celebrating “Chrissie”. Well, we are in the throes of seeing Australians celebrate it, as we don’t really do that much around this holiday. Never … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Christmas, holidays, small town culture, southern hemisphere, wagga wagga
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across the great divide
In our last episode, we were in Canberra eating Ethiopian food. The purpose of that trip was to take Lisa’s visiting scholar to the Capital for some meetings. One of the things the guest requested, when Lisa asked her pre-trip … Continue reading
Everything is upside down
People here walk the streets eating pie with their hands, but we go to an Ethiopian restaurant and they give us cutlery. Weird country! Of course the server did point out that we are in Canberra, which is a pretty … Continue reading
Posted in Canberra, cultural differences, food, pie, travel
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on the road again (and trails and tracks)
It’s been a hard week for blogging…you must have all noticed that we missed doing a mid-week post :). Lisa has been busy hosting an international visiting scholar, and Dan has been in Bathurst for work. But we did manage … Continue reading
Posted in Bathurst, bicycles, cycling, kangaroo, lake albert, mountains, wildlife
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pickers and permanent people
When we went to Young a couple of weeks ago, we sort of jumped the gun. A variety of other plans throughout the week got shifted, so we ended up with a free Saturday and we really wanted some cherries. … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, Australia, Ballinaclash, cheese, cherries, festivals, fruit, olives, pie, pistachios, rural life, wine, Young
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I can see for miles
When people ask us if it has been hard to leave all our friends and family behind, we say “yes, of course.” But we also say that the move to Edmonton was probably a bigger move. All of our family was, … Continue reading
Posted in family, holidays, homesickness, Owen Sound, Pike Bay, travel
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capital radio
We’ve both been on the road this week, so not a lot of blogging time. The hilarious thing is that we both went to Canberra for work, separately. We overlapped a night – had some pretty good Moroccan pizza on … Continue reading
Posted in birds, Canberra, Clonakilla, cycling, Hilltops, Jugiong, Murrumbateman, wine, wineries
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Young and restless
A couple of weeks ago, while driving back from a work trip to Bathurst (CSU has a campus there, so we’ve both been a few times), Dan left a trail of cherry pits from Young to Cootamundra. He had just … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, Ballinaclash, cherries, farmers market, fruit, Hilltops, strawberries, wine, Young
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“The festival will start small…”
This was a line in the Daily Advertiser article about the first Wagga multicultural festival, that took place last Saturday. We heard about it a few weeks ago, and were thrilled at the thought of food and entertainment from around … Continue reading
Posted in festivals, Visa, wagga, wagga wagga, wine
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