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The Jewish Museum in Berlin

  • by Tim
  • Posted on 23rd January 201923rd January 2019
  • Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin

Sabine and I went to Berlin and to the spectacular Jewish Museum. Afterwards we drank coffee, smoked cigarettes and discussed what we had experienced.

Basically we had gone to the museum because we were in Berlin and also to … Read the rest

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English in the Northern Territory

  • by Tim Smith
  • Posted on 6th January 20196th January 2019
  • Australia
When it Gets Hot

When it gets hot, I will remember the mornings
Crunching November, precisely frosted
Skating the puddles without a worry.
I will cope by wanting to leave a glint

I will walk to the beach to look back
And swim, fatty … Read the rest

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A Brush with the Morgue

  • by Tim
  • Posted on 10th July 201710th July 2017
  • Australia
Zuzu Classic

This morning I was listening to the radio. Rosie Ayliffe, the mother of murdered British backpacker, Mia Ayliffe-Chung, was speaking about her daughter. Specifically she was speaking about seeing her daughter in the morgue. She then went on to speak … Read the rest

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Farmer’s Market – Neuilly-sur-Seine Paris

  • by Tim
  • Posted on 19th April 201625th January 2019
  • Beef
The fish at the Neuilly-sur-Seine farmers' market.

Sabine and I made a quick trip over to Paris last week to eat and walk and wander around. We had an amazing meal at the wonderdul L’Ami Jean on the 27 rue Malar just off Quai D’Orsay – more

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Music in Brazil for Free – Videos

  • by Tim
  • Posted on 27th July 201527th July 2015
  • Belo Horizonte
Raaaaawk!

Belo Horizonte in Brazil has a free music week that we just happened to walk right into the middle of this July. We were fortunate not only to cool off to the jazz in the Praça da Liberdade but also … Read the rest

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Visiting Brazil – Oscar Niemeyer and Others

  • by Tim
  • Posted on 26th July 201527th July 2015
  • Architects
Tourists

Aside from travel to travel’s sake, football, food and music, a very fine reason to visit Brazil is architecture and specifically the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer. So, we thought, “Let’s go to Brasilia”. Oh dear.

Brasilia is a dream of … Read the rest

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Visiting Brazil 2015 – Food, Markets and Food Things

  • by Tim
  • Posted on 22nd July 201527th July 2015
  • Belo Horizonte
Chefs and FOH hard at it in Zuka.

Food in Brazil – well, in Belo Horizonte and Rio – is carby, protein, sweet and salty, and it’s all washed down with beer or the many types of local sugar-spirit called Cachaça. Brasilia? Yes, we went there. We ate

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Visiting Brazil – The Maracanã Stadium

  • by Tim
  • Posted on 22nd July 201522nd July 2015
  • Brazil
Brazil 2015 - At the Maracana - Flamengo vs Figueirense.

Ever since I saw a picture of the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, I was seven years old, it was 1970, it has been a magical place to me. So when in Rio, I had to visit.

Two strange … Read the rest

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Visiting Brazil 2015 – Belo Horizonte

  • by Tim
  • Posted on 20th July 201520th July 2015
  • Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte sits inland and reminded at least one of us of Birmingham (it even comes with its own language accent). It is a planned city, built in the 1890s to provide for the mining community and business that was

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Bye bye Rio.

  • by Tim
  • Posted on 15th July 201519th July 2015
  • Brazil

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