Mark Riboldi

Category: My Travels

  • Happy New Year and all that [Jan 2015]

    Hello! Looks like the second half of 2014 really got away from me; The last time I sent out this monthly email was in mid-September. Back then I wrote about ‘chasing rabbits’ – about getting distracted from the things we want to be focussing on by all those things that pop up… yes, I realise there’s…

  • The People of Bourj el Barajneh

    On one square kilometre of land in southern Beirut, around 22,000 Palestinians live on one square kilometer of land. A very high proportion of the people are children. The Bourj el Barajneh refugee camp has been here since 1948. Beirut grew up and around the camp; generations of Palestinians have grown up inside it. Love0…

  • The Streets of Bourj el Barajneh

    The streets of Bourj el Barajneh are narrow and dark, an absolute labyrinth. I’m lost within five minutes of being there. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin

  • Bundeena Daytrip

    When my sister was out visiting from Japan recently, she and I went on a good little Sydney day-trip to Bundeena and Jibbon Beach, on the Cronulla Coast, inside the Royal National Park. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin

  • Not such a good head for politics…

    International media last week (and continuing into this) was concentrated on the presidential elections in Iran and the death of Michael Jackson. Both are engrossing, for very different reasons. Iran needs to release the remaining British Embassy staff asap (or Downing Street will write them a very angry letter) and the latest I’ve heard about…

  • The Next Adventure

    I was outside at a bar last night, having a smoke in a chimney of an outdoor smoking area when a few people started swapping travel stories. They were doing those really exciting ones, like: Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin

  • Lunar New Year 2009

    Tonight I went to Prince Alfred Park, in Parramatta, for some Lunar New Year celebrations. I was a bit disappointed. The festivities had been advertised as a ‘Twilight Noodle Market‘, in reality it was just a regular market, complete with Carnies, and only one noodle stall out of about a dozen food outlets. I had…

  • Sydney Buildings

    On Sunday I attended Open Sydney 08, where a bunch of historic and interesting buildings across Sydney are opened to the public. The first building we visited was the AMP Tower at Circular Quay and its from the 26th floor of this building that I took these two panoramas. You can see them a bit…

  • Sydney to Perth in 10 Days (Part Four)

    Now the beginning of Day Nine of traveling across Australia was really the tenth day of the trip, but because we didn’t do any driving the day before, I’m not counting it as a ‘day’ in the grand scheme of things. I would have, but I actually didn’t realise until I got to last week’s…