Mixed it up a little bit on this fine Tuesday and had an awesome day. My wandering took me to some new parts of the city to visit two separate university campuses and then to the National Gallery of Victoria. My first stobe was at the La Trobe University city campus. This is where a bunch of grad students work from and occasionally the group from the research centre that I am working with. I needed to meet with them today so that took me down into the CBD for th...

So Melbourne has very well known international comedy festival. (Can't confirm its a fact, but someone once told me that the three big ones are actually Montreal, Melbourne, and Edinburgh.) I was fortunate enough to be here while it's on, so I had to check out a show. Unfortunately, I'm not up on my comedy. In fact, I really had no idea how to pick which show to go see. There was a lot of Aussi comedians - most of whom I'm sure are hilarious - but when you are l...

Firstly, super huge thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes, nice messages, and surprises. 27 sure kicked off with a bang! Here's a run down of my birthday. When I got to campus I was greeted with the awesome surprise of my office decked out with streamers, balloons, and my own birthday boy badge. So much fun! I was also treated to an awesome lunch with the crew at La Trobe who even had cake for me and sang happy birthday. Little things like that make birt...

The last few days in Tassie were no less exciting than the week leading up to them. We had an early morning on Sunday to get our things in order and get back to Hobart to return the rental. After some delicious breakfast at the Kentish Hotel, we drove the last leg into the city, gassed up, and returned the car. Our next stop was the hostel (we booked the same one we were in last weekend - the Brunswick Hotel) where we dropped our bags in the luggage storage and ...

Today's adventures took us to all kinds of different places. Most of which were pretty impromptu - which is a fun kind of day to have once and a while. After meeting a super cool mother-daughter cycling duo from New South Whales over breakfast, we struck out for Launceston. Our first stop was the Tasmania Zoo so that we could see some Devils!!! It didn't disappoint. We got there just in time for their morning feeding, so we got to see and hear the little critte...