Melbourne – Part Six
A visit to the Melbourne Zoo with many pictures and boring explanations of biological stuff.
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Melbourne – Part Five
An illustrated walk through the Domain Parklands and the Royal Botanical Gardens of Melbourne.
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A first encounter with Australian art in the Ian Potter Center.
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Seeking cultural enrichment and walking along the Yarra river.
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Getting to know the city center and learning the use of public transportation.
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Arriving in Melbourne for the first of our three Australian Home Exchanges.
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Beginning our epic journey of five consecutive home exchanges in Australia and China.
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Die Pinakothek der Moderne is supersized eye-candy and it contains some pretty impressive works of art too. It is the newest of three world renown Pinakotheken in München, Germany, hence its local nickname “Dritte”, the third. The German term Pinakothek is of Greek origin meaning literally storehouse [formative element: thek] of painted tablets [pinax, genitive case: pinakos], […]
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In large part thanks to the aid of automated translators, I routinely write emails or post on Facebook in either English, German, French or Spanish, with a smidgen Italian thrown in now and then. I’m only fluent in two of those languages, happily guessing my way through the others, killing grammar right and left as […]
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Our last week in Heidelberg simply flew by, thus our visit to this charming town sadly has come to an end. From our apartment in the “posh” (as a friend and long-time resident of Heidelberg called it) neighborhood of Neuenheim, north of the river Neckar, we explored the Altstadt, the Old Town on the left bank, […]
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NOT IN A STRAIGHT LINE by Photolera Claudinha 