TOO MANY ONE NIGHT STANDS
TRAVEL The traffic at the Arc de Triomphe roundabout in Paris parted like the Red Sea, as I made a dash to return my hire car, before office closing time. […]
Category Archives: Travel
ON CHESIL BEACH – ALMOST
TRAVEL RAIN and fog prevented me from seeing the amazing 30km long Chesil Beach, the first time I drove along the Dorset Coast, from Weymouth to Lyme Regis, in 1982, […]
WE BELONG IN GLASGOW
TRAVEL Glasgow was a social highlight of our eldest son, Damien’s Queensland Universities rugby league tour of the British Isles in 2001. Scotland’s largest city was also on the itinerary […]
MY THIRD KANGAROO SUPPORTERS’ TOUR
TRAVEL Recently a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and/or Europe, and when I answered ’20’, he said I should write a book. I’m not in […]
MADRID TO GALWAY
TRAVEL Recently a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and or Europe, and when I answered ’20’ he said I should write a book. I’m not […]
THE QUIET AUSTRALIAN
TRAVEL My wife, Marie nearly fainted when she heard I was staying in a youth hostel at Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire, England, in October 1993 on my walk from London to […]
MY SECOND KANGAROO SUPPORTERS TOUR
TRAVEL Recently a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and or Europe, and when I answered ’20’, he said I should write a book. I’m not […]
LONDON TO A BRICK ODDS
TRAVEL Who would have thought my friendship with Widnes’ bricklayer, Frank Kennedy in Australia in 1973 would lead to a stay in his country manor house in England, nearly 30 years […]
GRAND CANAL WALK AND A BIT OF FOOTY
Travel Recently a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and or Europe, and, when I answered ’20’ he said I should write a book. I’m not […]
BAR LE RUGBY REVISITED
TRAVEL Carcassonne had been a highlight of my ‘backpacking days’ in Europe, and now here I was, on assignment for Brisbane’s Courier-Mail newspaper. I couldn’t believe it. It was September, […]
AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE MOI MOI MOI
TRAVEL The first time I saw Australia Day ‘jingoism’ in full swing was 2007, in Perth. Until then, for me, Australia Day was just a quiet, public holiday, where one […]
MY FIRST KANGAROO SUPPORTERS TOUR
TRAVEL Recently a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and or Europe, and when I answered ’20’, he said I should write a book. I’m not […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 22, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 22 2019. MONDAY, JUNE 3 Spring Bluff Rail Station and Ravensbourne National Park are our destinations, as Marie and I drive west […]
RUGBY LEAGUE’S WAR OF THE ROSES
Just as Great Britain sides once played New South Wales and Queensland, Kangaroo touring teams also played County sides, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria. Yorkshire and Lancashire tried to emulate State […]
TOUR DE FRANCE
TRAVEL Recently a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and or Europe, and, when I answered ’20, he said I should write a book. I’m not […]
MY SECOND KANGAROO TOUR
TRAVEL Recently a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and or Europe, and when I answered ’20’, he said I should write a book. I’m not […]
MY FIRST KANGAROO TOUR
TRAVEL Recently, a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and/or Europe, and when I replied ’20’, he said I should write a book. I’m not in […]
THE BACK PACKER EXPERIENCE
Travel 1977-78 THE BACK PACKER EXPERIENCE. Recently, a mate asked me, how many times I had been to Britain and/or Europe, and when I answered ’20’, he said I should […]
TO LEEDS VIA THE THAMES
TRAVEL “What a load of rubbish” the crowd chanted, after Australian rugby league centre, Brett Kenny threw a loose pass at Headingley Stadium, Leeds in a match against the local […]
I HAVE A CUNNING PLAN
TRAVEL What could possibly go wrong? It was November, 1982, and I had chosen a pub called ‘The Old Bore’ at Cunning Corner, for lunch, on the way to the Australian Rugby League Kangaroos’ match against Bradford Northern at Odsal Stadium. Although I was not the driver, I had been tasked with planning many of […]
