"Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge." -  Don Henley Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday ...

"I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up."-  David Malouf Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesda...

“The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.” - David Russell Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me...

“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and ...

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” - Dante Alighieri We live ...

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” - Susan Sontag   Brisbane is the port and the capital city of Queensland, Australia, a...

“Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.” - Colleen C. Barrett   I am in Brisbane for work and it has b...

“Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist” - Robert Maynard Hutchins ...

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” - Marcel I am travelling to Brisbane fo...

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” - Osca...

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one” - C.S. Lewis I am i...

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” - George Bernard Shaw While in Brisbane I...

“Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour, which knows the plenitude of the soul.” - Gaston Bachelard I am in Brisb...

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca I was in Brisbane for work today and it made for a long day consideri...

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” - G.K. C...

“No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness.” - Sheik Abd-al-Qadir Gilani I was in Brisbane for the day,...

“Sometimes in tragedy we find our life’s purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.” - Robert Brault It is nearly three weeks into...

“I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade.  It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and...

“Adversity is like a strong wind.  It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are....

“Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don’t worry... I’m here. The floodwaters will recede, the famine wi...