If you recall, the week before last I travelled some 1800 km by road to Toowoomba and Lightning Ridge. Last week I beat that by quite a wide margin, though this time by air. The trip there and back only took 3 days and the road distance covered was about 1960 km ... it might have been a little longer by air as that routed me via Sydney. Whereas the previous week was all recreation, this one was all business and what's more I didn't pay a cent. A regional development conference organisation picked up the tab for the airfare, hotel, taxis, and meals. Why was that? Well, I was invited to give a keynote speech to about 150 delegates from all over south-eastern Australia.
I will not bore you with the details of my speech but instead note that I hardly saw anything of the city I was staying in! So, I only have one picture over the city from my bedroom window! The little I saw suggested a very pleasant place indeed - though one I've visited on several other occasions. In fact, the only real excursion away from the conference orbit or too and from the airport was with a colleague from Toowoomba (again) seeking out a restaurant. That turned out to be a Japanese emporium and I had a rather nice sushi / sashimi meal. For the reader who knows little of Japanese cuisine, the sushi pieces are usually small round collections of rice and other vegetable / animal (including fish) pieces bound in what looks like seaweed and served with gari (ginger) or wasabi (a kind of horseradish paste). The sashimi is made from raw fish and other seafood. I like it, but lots don't.
Anyway, forget the meal. Here's the view from my bedroom window. Not much of the town I'm afraid - only a couple of spires and hills in the State of Victoria across the Murray River taken in the evening light.
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AS
I will not bore you with the details of my speech but instead note that I hardly saw anything of the city I was staying in! So, I only have one picture over the city from my bedroom window! The little I saw suggested a very pleasant place indeed - though one I've visited on several other occasions. In fact, the only real excursion away from the conference orbit or too and from the airport was with a colleague from Toowoomba (again) seeking out a restaurant. That turned out to be a Japanese emporium and I had a rather nice sushi / sashimi meal. For the reader who knows little of Japanese cuisine, the sushi pieces are usually small round collections of rice and other vegetable / animal (including fish) pieces bound in what looks like seaweed and served with gari (ginger) or wasabi (a kind of horseradish paste). The sashimi is made from raw fish and other seafood. I like it, but lots don't.
Anyway, forget the meal. Here's the view from my bedroom window. Not much of the town I'm afraid - only a couple of spires and hills in the State of Victoria across the Murray River taken in the evening light.
AS
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