Adventures in Wonderland
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Alison Armstrong and Don Read are in their 70s running a travel website. Both of them love to travel and so decided to star a travel blog named Adventures in Wonderland. In this blog, they talk in detailed about their travel journey and the adventures they witnessed.
Adventures in Wonderland
1w ago
Soper Lodge, Johannesburg, 6 August 1980 Washing underpants and socks in the washbasin of a cheap hotel room. Back on the road again. Everything is run-down and dirty, including me. Desperately tired, jet lag strikes with deadly accuracy; eyes sore, head hazy. Threadbare blankets, no towel, no plug for the wash basin, cobwebs, and the ..read more
Adventures in Wonderland
2w ago
It’s been almost two years since we were in Greece, and all the while these photos have been languishing in an abandoned file waiting to become the chosen ones. At last their time has arrived. Any regular followers of the blog know I like to photograph the people of the places we visit. What catches ..read more
Adventures in Wonderland
1M ago
10 February 2023 It rises in the Budawang Mountains 220 kilometres (137 miles) south of Sydney and 50 kilometres (30 miles) inland from the coast. The Aborigines call it Bhundoo, meaning Big Water, though most Australians know it as the Clyde, and up there in the Budawangs at first it’s no more than a trickle ..read more
Adventures in Wonderland
1M ago
All of these photos – chance encounters and random incidents – were taken in Canberra, but this is not a post about Canberra so much as it is about people; most of them could be anywhere western really. They are photos that didn’t fit neatly into any previous post, and I didn’t want them forever ..read more
Adventures in Wonderland
2M ago
Not a single one of them seems to be afraid. They approach the water as if it’s holy. Surely it is holy, a sacred space that calls to them over and over. And they answer the call with jubilation, excitement, and necessity. Surf’s up! The word spreads as if by an insistent echoing drumbeat; what ..read more
Adventures in Wonderland
2M ago
February 2023 — As I look down the beach I can hardly believe what I’m seeing! It looks like it could be a surf lifesaving carnival and I’ve never been to one. Or some kind of carnival anyway, and with my usual curiosity I want to see what’s going on.I immediately head towards it, even ..read more
Adventures in Wonderland
2M ago
About a year ago we were in Australia and had rented a house at the beach at Malua Bay for two weeks. For four days my niece and her dog joined us, so we were on the hunt for beaches where dogs could be off-leash.There’s this sweet dogon Malua Beachthat tries to eat our sandals,and ..read more
Adventures in Wonderland
3M ago
A memory: age about 25 or 26. Living in Australia’s far northwest. Working in the only hotel in a tiny isolated iron ore mining town. Along with a group of friends driving an hour through the desert to Millstream Tavern – even more isolated but existing because of the water, a natural oasis in a ..read more
Adventures in Wonderland
3M ago
It’s December 17th. We’re going to Montreal to have Christmas with family. The plan is to drive our car to a friends’ place where they will keep it in their underground parkade for the time we’re away, then they’ll take us to the airport. At about 9.30 in the morning I come outside and walk ..read more
Adventures in Wonderland
5M ago
Icon: A person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere. Australia 1968 – I left home at 17, all mad eagerness, invincibility, and naivety. I moved to The Big Smoke, freshly graduated a year early from high school. My sister and her husband lived in Darlinghurst in ..read more