Australians are well known for participating in sports that aren’t played by many nations. On many occasions they are quite good at those sports. Constant good performers at cricket, surfing, field hockey, rugby union, netball are the usual good contenders. But 2 sports in particular capture the heart of the country, the 2 most popular…
Following our previous look at Mexican traditional music we now focus our attention on the Latin Rock coming out of Mexico. Mexico being the largest Spanish speaking country in the world is also one of the 2 big scenes of Spanish/Latin Rock. Many bands from other smaller countries like Puerto Rico, or maybe Guatemala come…
The proud descendants of the Pitcairn Islanders, residents of Norfolk Island are up in arms about the Australian governments, recent take over of their territory. Norfolk Island is an external territory of Australia, and until recently self-governing. Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific located between New Zealand, New Caledonia and Australia. These people were…
For about 200 years the decline of the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island remained one of the biggest mysteries of the time. When the Dutch landed on the island on Easter 1722 they were surprised at the quantity and size of the Moai statues the largest of which measured at 10m tall. After that…
The first signs of that something different was going on in Venice was a street sign I saw which called a street “calle” which is exactly the same name as a street in Spain; a street in Italian (Florentine dialect) is “via”. I drew on my contact with the Catalan’s in Spain “Carrer” and neighbours…