<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Travel - Australia @ valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com</title><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Travel - Australia) </description><copyright>Copyright 2009 valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:39:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Travel - Australia @ valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Favourites from 2004 - Chinatown, Sydney</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/favourites_from_2004__chinatown_sydney.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/favourites_from_2004__chinatown_sydney.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2005 06:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=favourites%5Ffrom%5F2004%5F%5Fchinatown%5Fsydney</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dear all,An email from Terry in TasmaniaÂ reminded me of this one so I thought in January 2005 I'd resurrect some of my and other's favourites occaisionally. If you do enjoy them, please feel free to pass them on or send a link to others.A small Chi]]></description></item><item><title>Chinatown, Sydney</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/chinatown_sydney.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/chinatown_sydney.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2005 06:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=chinatown%5Fsydney</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dear all,A small Chinese man pushes porter from the vast red-bricked megalith of Market City towards the rat infested destinations of of Chinatowns restaurants. His cargo is wide punnets of purple broccoli, and he sings to himself in a strange, alien]]></description></item><item><title>And it rained - A death in Sydney</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/and_it_rained__a_death_in_sydney.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/and_it_rained__a_death_in_sydney.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=and%5Fit%5Frained%5F%5Fa%5Fdeath%5Fin%5Fsydney</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And it rained, oh how it rained.Like a monsoon on Zanzibar it bucketed down on the unwary Sydney denizens.Oh! They dashed and they scattered their way splashing through the deluge, but all was hopeless, all would be soaked. Some gathered under saggin]]></description></item><item><title>The Stolen Generations - Marjorie Woodrow</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_stolen_generations__marjorie_woodrow.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_stolen_generations__marjorie_woodrow.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2004 10:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fstolen%5Fgenerations%5F%5Fmarjorie%5Fwoodrow</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Songlines Part VIDear all,Marjorie Woodrow was removed from her family when she was just a child of two years.Â She would not see her mother again for over 68 years.Â Marjorie was one of 11,500 Indegenous people stretching from Perth to the Torres]]></description></item><item><title>Tales from Coober Pedy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/tales_from_coober_pedy.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/tales_from_coober_pedy.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tales%5Ffrom%5Fcoober%5Fpedy</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Welsh Taxi Driver in hellIn Coober Pedy I met a Welsman who told me a little story.Many years ago he had been prospecting in Northwest Canada in a one horse town called Broken Stick for anything the earth would yield; ore, gold, oil anything that]]></description></item><item><title>Christmas in Australia, 2003</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/christmas_in_australia_2003.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/christmas_in_australia_2003.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=christmas%5Fin%5Faustralia%5F2003</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By valleyboyabroadPostedÂ Monday, December 22, 2003 on valleyboyabroadDiscussion:Â Blogging ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------'And Christmas trees in]]></description></item><item><title>Martha and the Opal.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/martha_and_the_opal.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/martha_and_the_opal.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 12:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=martha%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fopal</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tales from Coober PedyDear allÂ Coober Pedy is the nearest to a gold rush frontier town that I have ever encountered.Â Scowling, swarthy, leather faced men eye the stranger with suspicion, the last thing they want is another potential prospector st]]></description></item><item><title>Strange Phenomenon - the Min Min lights of the Outback</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/strange_phenomenon__the_min_min_lights_of_the_outback.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/strange_phenomenon__the_min_min_lights_of_the_outback.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 12:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=strange%5Fphenomenon%5F%5Fthe%5Fmin%5Fmin%5Flights%5Fof%5Fthe%5Foutback</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On the road to Coober PedyDear all,InÂ the outback, other than keeping whip snakes out of your swag bag, there is little to do other than gather around the camp fire with scrubby old diggers and swap tales of BLOOD CHILLING&nbsp;TERROR!On one partic]]></description></item><item><title>An Australian Hero - Albert Manatjira</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/an_australian_hero__albert_manatjira.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/an_australian_hero__albert_manatjira.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 11:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=an%5Faustralian%5Fhero%5F%5Falbert%5Fmanatjira</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Songlines Part VIBy valleyboyabroadPostedÂ Saturday, January 31, 2004 on valleyboyabroadDiscussion:Â Blogging Dear all,High in the McDonell ranges in Central Australia, and indeed in much of the surrounding terrain you will find standing a lonely,]]></description></item><item><title>Australia Day - Part II</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/australia_day__part_ii.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/australia_day__part_ii.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 11:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=australia%5Fday%5F%5Fpart%5Fii</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By valleyboyabroadPostedÂ Thursday, January 29, 2004 on valleyboyabroadDiscussion:Â Blogging Dear all,Australia Day Part IIOn this, Australia day 26th January 2004, Billy Young was honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia.This story is not]]></description></item><item><title>Australia Day - Part I</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/australia_day__part_i.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/australia_day__part_i.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 11:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=australia%5Fday%5F%5Fpart%5Fi</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By valleyboyabroadPostedÂ Thursday, January 29, 2004 on valleyboyabroadDiscussion:Â Blogging Dear all,Australia Day.It is Australia day here, unsuprisingly, in the land of Oz.Strolling through Sydney, everywehere is crowded with flocking Australian]]></description></item><item><title>Songlines - Part IV</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/songlines__part_iv.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/songlines__part_iv.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 11:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=songlines%5F%5Fpart%5Fiv</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By valleyboyabroadPostedÂ Wednesday, January 28, 2004 on valleyboyabroadDiscussion:Â Blogging Dear all,In 1931 a young woman,Â Molly, 14, Â and her sisters, were forcibly removed from their families in East Pulbara, West Australia and transported]]></description></item><item><title>Songlines - Part III</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/songlines__part_iii.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/songlines__part_iii.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 11:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=songlines%5F%5Fpart%5Fiii</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By valleyboyabroadPostedÂ Saturday, January 17, 2004 on valleyboyabroadDiscussion:Â Blogging Dear all,Heading North from Port Augusta, the outback stretches endlessly before you.It is hot, dusty, dry and drippingly empty.The Stuart Highway winds sl]]></description></item><item><title>Songlines - Part II</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/songlines__part_ii.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/songlines__part_ii.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 11:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=songlines%5F%5Fpart%5Fii</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By valleyboyabroadPostedÂ Saturday, January 10, 2004 on valleyboyabroadDiscussion:Â Blogging Dear all,The songlines are a fascinating concept.Among other things they are also a map of Australia from the aboriginal perspective. In theory an aborigin]]></description></item><item><title>Songlines</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/songlines.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/songlines.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 11:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=songlines</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By valleyboyabroadPostedÂ Saturday, January 10, 2004 on valleyboyabroadDiscussion:Â Blogging Dear all,As part of my current odyssey, my walkabout has taken me deep into the aboriginal territory of thinking.The aborigines are not one people but are]]></description></item><item><title>Sydney again</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/sydney_again.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/sydney_again.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 11:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sydney%5Fagain</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By valleyboyabroadPostedÂ Saturday, January 10, 2004 on valleyboyabroadDiscussion:Â Blogging Dear all,Finally back in Sydney again.I flew in tired but happy having spent a marvellous New Year back in Tasmania. God but I love that place.I took a tax]]></description></item><item><title>Replies to Keith Windschuttle</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/replies_to_keith_windschuttle.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/replies_to_keith_windschuttle.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 11:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=replies%5Fto%5Fkeith%5Fwindschuttle</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By valleyboyabroadPostedÂ Friday, January 02, 2004 on valleyboyabroadDiscussion:Â Politics This, like all history, is fabricatedAll history is a fabrication of some kind. Records of the past are incomplete, written records carry their author's bias]]></description></item><item><title>Aboriginal Studies - Keith Windschuttle</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/aboriginal_studies__keith_windschuttle.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/aboriginal_studies__keith_windschuttle.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 11:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=aboriginal%5Fstudies%5F%5Fkeith%5Fwindschuttle</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By valleyboyabroadPostedÂ Monday, December 29, 2003 on valleyboyabroadDiscussion:Â Politics Keith Windschuttle: No slander in exposing cultural brutalityDecember 29, 2003In December last year a group of demonstrators stood in Elizabeth Street, Sydn]]></description></item><item><title>The Indian Pacific railway - Part 2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_indian_pacific_railway__part_2.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_indian_pacific_railway__part_2.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 10:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Findian%5Fpacific%5Frailway%5F%5Fpart%5F2</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sydney to Adelaide Part 2By valleyboyabroadPostedÂ Friday, December 19, 2003 on valleyboyabroadDiscussion:Â Blogging Siloti is a charming man.He has a big moon face and a mouth full of metal fillings. His beard and hair are white and immaculately g]]></description></item><item><title>The Indian Pacific railway - Part 1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_indian_pacific_railway__part_1.htm</guid><link>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/the_indian_pacific_railway__part_1.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2004 10:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://valleyboyabroad.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Findian%5Fpacific%5Frailway%5F%5Fpart%5F1</comments><dc:creator>john mchugh</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sydney to Adelaide - Part 1By valleyboyabroadPostedÂ Monday, December 08, 2003 on valleyboyabroadDiscussion:Â Blogging The Indian Pacific Railway(Saturday 6th - Sunday 7th)At last, I was leaving Sydney.Now I loved Sydney, there's always plenty to d]]></description></item></channel></rss>