Category: Australia

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Gold Coast Salmon & Chips Secret

My wife and I like to eat oily fish at least once a week, partly for health reasons.
Our fish of choice is Salmon.
My wife, who is a very good cook, prefers not to cook fish herself. (I am very poor at cooking and am under severe restrictions as to what I am allowed to do [...]

Schoolies (what 'little darlings') will soon start in Surfers Paradise.
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Schoolies (what ‘little darlings’) will soon start in Surfers Paradise.

Soon, in November, the Gold Coast will host thousands of ‘Schoolies’ – young people ranging from 17 -18 celebrating the end of school.
Schoolies is always a time of controversy.
Here is one example; an article from recent news:
Schoolie balcony ban bid blasted
Some apartment managers are seeking to have Schoolies locked out from the apartment/high rise balconies.
I [...]

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Tasmania trip

I have not posted much on my blogs recently because I went on a trip to Tasmania, Australia’s most southerly State.
Tasmania is much cooler than where I live on the sub tropical Gold Coast. Tasmania has a much older feel to it with a strong sense of the colonial past.
We landed in Launceston, in the [...]

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Australia – “The Lucky Country”

Australia has long been considered “The Lucky Country”.
Australia shines as place to be in global crisis
This attitude has insulated us from some of the effects of the current economic downturn.
Why is this?
Because a significant amount of the severity of the financial climate today is due to fear and negativity.
Much is self inflicted.
Focus on the good. [...]

Sushi & Yum Cha on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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Sushi & Yum Cha on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

This is a ‘dining out‘ post aimed at people local to my area of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; and at visitors or tourists in the region.
For many years now my wife and I have been enjoying Sushi and Yum Cha at Sushi 4 U in Broadbeach. Map link.
We have been attending Sushi 4 U [...]