Posts Tagged Singapore

Wep’s 1956 Romanian adventure: Rome; “I am in anything but a state of Splendor!”

Posted on January 29, 2011 by

Mon 24-Sep-56: Took off 8:30am through Bangkok, Calcutta and Karachi, flew all day & night, arrived Cairo 3:55am. Tue 25-Sep-56: Landed Rome 10am. Found suitcase had been left at Karachi. After lot of bother settled in Splendor Hotel. Cashed £10 Wed 26-Sep-56: Walked miles saw Vatican & Coloseum [Roma, Italy, Splendor Hotel via Luigi Luzzatti [...]

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Wep’s 1956 Romanian adventure: Berrimah (near Darwin); in need of a cold beer

Posted on January 29, 2011 by

Sat 22-Sep-56:  Left Sydney 10:30pm – slept most of the way to Darwin. Plane very empty. Sun 23-Sep-56: Took off 8:05am. Arrived at Singapore 3:55pm. Saw Ian Hamilton and had fun at ‘Happy World’. Slept at Raffles Hotel. Cashed £5 [Berrimah, Northern Territory] 7am Sunday Dear Mugs, Had a magnificently smooth trip up and landed [...]

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Caravanning with Wep – Sunday, 17th July 1937, Skyring Creek, Qld., description of trip from Jindabyne, NSW to Queensland

Posted on January 24, 2010 by

17th July Sat. Skyring Creek, Qld. A marvellous night, mild and limpid under the moon. Undergrowth tangled & dark, mysterious, protects our quiet privacy. Dawnie, our infallible thermometer, lies uncurled, a vast improvement (to her dog-mind) on Jindabyne where days and nights were spent in periwinkle curled sloth. Which reverts us to our farewell to [...]

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