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Martijn Richters (right) and I during a live coverage for KX Radio from the Railway Museum in Utrecht, 2007

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Many people might not know that Australia has been attacked during World War II as well. The town of Broome in Western Australia was bombed by the Japanese, exactly 70 years ago, on March 3rd 1942. 88 people were killed, of which the majority was Dutch. Broome was a refuelling point for aircraft, en route from the [...]

The rain that has hammered on New South Wales for the past summer has intensified over the past week and is now causing serious trouble. 75% of the state is at flood risk, 1.700 people have been evacuated and the Warragamba Dam has today reached a level of 100% -for the first time since 1998-, and has started [...]

This Sydney summer has reminded me of the wet and miserable summers we used to have in The Netherlands. Digging into the facts makes it even gloomier. Apart from the temperature, the past Sydney summer has been worse than the average Dutch summer. It rained on average once every two days (!). Looking back at the [...]

Come jump in our car and drive with us to the beach !

Gossling is the artists name of Helen Croome, a singer songwriter from Melbourne. She used to study Psychology, but skipped lessons to learn herself playing guitar in quiet rooms of the university building. Eventually she switched to the Bachelor of Music study at the same university, and released two EPs during that time. The third [...]

The title isn’t right, as the official ‘rice table’ (a table filled with 10+ dishes) has been invented by the Dutch. But still in Indonesia known as ‘rice table’ or the Dutch equivalent ‘rijstafel’ what they spell with only one ‘t’. Anyway, it means eating good, and eating a lot ! With our move to [...]

The kookaburra is a miraculous Australian bird. They usually sit quiet on the branch of a tree waiting until they see a worm or a bug moving on the ground. They take a deep dive, pick up, swallow and fly back to the tree. Except when they are with more kookaburras in the same tree, [...]