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Travel in Australia
A Return Visit to Puckapunyal
On Saturday, I (along with my long-term mate Ken Wriedt) attended a service at Puckapunyal to unveil a plaque commemorating its role in training the thousands of young National Servicemen over the years from the 1950s to 1972. We always preferred to be called National Servicemen (shortened to its slang term of ‘Nasho’s) rather than […]
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New Zealand
The End of Our New Zealand Trip
Friday, was our last day in New Zealand, Over our 27 day driving tour, we covered 4,660 kilometres and saw the north island from its northern-most point, all the way to its southern-most point. We had some time to fill in after checking out of our hotel and catching our 3 1/2 hour flight home […]
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New Zealand
Visiting Te Papa Museum.
Yesterday was a lovely sunny day with almost no breeze. We decided to walk along the Wellington waterfront, past some historical cranes and cargo handling equipment, to Te Papa (the National Museum of New Zealand. The building has five floors – each with a different theme. On the ground floor was the section with a […]
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