Melbourne

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Wed, 29/03/2023 - 07:00
Opposition leader (for now) Peter Dutton has condemned Victorian Premier Dan Andrews over traffic in Melbourne, after his candidate for the upcoming Aston bi-election spent 40 minutes driving from their home in Fitzroy to the electorate. ”What planet does comrade... Read More ›
Created
Sun, 20/11/2022 - 10:34
map showing the route between Broken Hill and Melbourne
Road trip to Melbourne

I just booked a few nights in Melbourne. I’m driving my old jalopy down the silver-city highway to visit my pal, @MJD.
In-line with my current obsessional thinking I have made a list of some boat-dealers in the area. Who knows maybe I’ll find …

Created
Fri, 25/11/2022 - 15:25
pictures of my friend MJD looking at pictures of MJD
I don’t know why I do it … but I like assembling pictures of MJD looking at MJD

I got back from visiting MJD in Melbourne yesterday. I managed to get a flight for not much more then the petrol would have cost. I only had to drive the three …

By Matthew Davidson, 25 December, 2022
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A hotel room doorway at the end of a corridor.
The door of a double room with ensuite at the Sawtell Hotel. I barely slept there during my first night in Sawtell early in 2004 as rain dripping from the roof drummed on the awning of the bottle shop below. Photo taken on my last day in Sawtell, May 2022.

Travel is remarkably easy here in the far future of the twenty-first century. At your point of departure you make a series of electronic financial transactions, in exchange for which you receive a bunch of PDF files with barcodes on them.