Melbourne: Nellie Melba and a Flat White
at one of Melbourne’s beaches Opera diva Nellie Melba (1861-1931), née Helen Porter Mitchell, changed her name to honor the city of...
Mal de Mermaid
With my anti-motion sickness pressure point wristbands and a couple Dramamine, I weathered the Roaring Forties without mishap. Others...
The Antipodean Eden
Dunedin — Celtic for Edinburgh — means ‘Eden among the hills.’ They got that right. We’d been in New Zealand for 8 days and, though we...
Name that Cloud
I hope you’ve all been following the Comments with your ‘votes’ in the latest Name that Cloud competition. I look out my stateroom...
Plucky, Resiliant Christchurch NZ
In 2010, Christchurch suffered a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. But it was the 6.3 quake six months later in February 2011 that leveled much...