Category: Lives
The Last Saturday in September
Messages from Melbourne — In September, AFL is the only game in town On a few days in Melbourne...
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Brač – Croatian island full of life
My Favourite Place – Brač When you live in Dalmatia, a beautiful part of Croatia that attracts a...
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Plitvice Lakes – where god spilled the paint
My Favourite Place – Plitvice Lakes National Park I am a professional tour guide with almost 20...
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Kopački Rit – Pearl of Eastern Croatia
My favourite place – Kopački Rit I live in an eastern region of Croatia called Slavonia and...
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Traunkirchen for the weekend
My Favourite Place – Traunkirchen When people told me that studying would be the best time of my...
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The magic of Mirabell Gardens, Salzburg
My Favourite Place – Mirabell Gardens As someone who earns his living from writing, it is...
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I fell in love with the Canary Islands
It’s often said that the Canary Islands are a real Heaven on Earth. I, for one, believe that to be...
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I Got Married in a Bookshop
Why wouldn’t you tie the knot where love first cast its spell? You’ll have to decide whether...
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Living in an extended family in Lahore
Newly married, I faced the challenge of moving in with my husband’s parents and wider family...
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Undone by my personal diary
My desire to keep a daily diary had consequences I did not foresee
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How I healed myself from kidney failure
When established medical treatments couldn’t help my failing kidney, I found another way
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Hit the Road, Jack: Part 4
Australian Jack Howard, who rose to fame with the band Hunters & Collectors, is on the final leg of a world tour with Aussie rockers Midnight Oil.
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Suddenly homeless in their 50s and with Moth facing a diagnosis of terminal illness, Raynor and Moth Winn made the radical decision to walk the 1,000km South West Coast Path of England. Raynor documents their life-affirming experience in her Costa Book Award-nominated memoir, The Salt Path.
‘Nature was my safe place’: Raynor Winn on homelessness and setting off on a 630-mile walk
theguardian.com
Without a home, and facing terminal illness, Winn and her husband decided to walk the South West Coast Path. She talks about the experience – and her Costa-nominated memoir, The Salt PathA number of stories about Australian 4WD Hire allegedly ripping off its customers have appeared in Australian media but now one of those customers has won his court battle against the company.
Sydney man Glen McGarry was accused by Australian 4WD Hire of using contaminated fuel in his hire vehicle, tampering with its electronics and speeding. He denied all the allegations but the company demanded $15,000 from him.
Australian 4WD Hire has now settled the case with Mr McGarry and the signed statement from the company absolves Mr McGarry of any wrongdoing.
Mr McGarry said the claim by Australian 4WD Hire was a baseless attempt to extort money from him and he was fortunate he had the time and money to fight it in court.
4WD hire company admits customer it was suing did nothing wrong
abc.net.au
A prominent 4WD hire company is accused of charging for speeding fines that do not exist and misleading tourists about insurance cover in a bid to demand thousands of dollars from its customers, an ABC investigation uncovers. But one customer decided to fight back.