Antipodes

There'll be a nine-day interruption in the Antipodes blog from tomorrow Thursday, 21 February up until Saturday, 1 March 2008.

Chapter 4 of my novel has now been released. Click the following button to access the novel's website: This chapter, entitled Moving , ...

Yesterday, I finally got around to bottling and labeling the remainder of my walnut wine. I had almost forgotten the existence of this stock...

I get a kick out of inventing theories in fields in which, a priori, I'm a complete ignoramus. In fact, some of my best discoveries and ...

Pursuing their attempt to break the round-the-world sailing record known as the Jules Verne Trophy , the 35-year-old Provençal yachtsman Fra...

For a blogger such as me, who's struck with vertigo as soon as he climbs up onto a chair [an act that literally brought about the accide...

For a long time, Catholics have looked upon Jews as potential Christians who have the misfortune of not seeing the Light, for they have been...

Chapter 3 of my novel has now been released. Click the following button to access the novel's website: This chapter is entitled Ascensi...

Israel has her own particular way of commenting upon assassinations such as that of Imad Moughnieh , a Hezbollah chief in Lebanon. The Jewis...

I've found that an attempt to approach a mind-boggling manifestation of evil such as the Shoah involves a series of steps. For many yea...

I've noticed that the quality of uncooked pastry, sold in supermarkets, changes considerably from one brand to another. Some are good, w...

The geographical boundaries of France are shaped in such a way that French people often refer to their country as the Hexagon . Inside this ...

The initial chapter of my novel ended with a picnic excursion to sunny Rottnest Island, whose coastline is studded with wrecks. In a casual ...

I'm impatient to see how my Anglican compatriots in Australia, not to mention their Catholic mates, are going to react to the suggestion...

By the age of twelve or so, having grown up in a competitive cycling environment, I was perfectly capable of riding my ordinary racing bike,...

An article in today's press reveals that Australian universities are ranked by foreign students as the third best in the world (just beh...

Just when the French acronym TGV [ train à grande vitesse ] has even found its way into English-language dictionaries [such as on my Macint...

It was great to learn that the Atlantis shuttle was finally launched successfully yesterday from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Aboard, there...

I received a few more excellent photos of Uluru from my Young mate Bruce Hudson . [Well, he's no older than me, and he happens to live o...

If you want to see some really crazy figures, take a look at the chart of comparative data in the CIA World Factbook concerning the lengths...