Monthly Archives: August 2018

Wonderland 2018

Event: Wonderland Run Distance: 20km short / 36km long Date: Sunday the 26th August 2018 Location: Hall Gap, The Grampians Organised by: Big Long Run The Wonderland Run Grampians is a 2km and 8km Saturday afternoon run, followed by 20km … Continue reading

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This weeks links (2018-08-27)

In brief: * ‘Clueless’ tourists climbing the Alps in sneakers (2018-Aug-25) [SMH] * Australian AAS project extended to Sept 2019 (2018-Aug-28) [Australian Adventure Activity Standards] We are pleased to announce that that the Australian Adventure Activity Standards (AAS) project has … Continue reading

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Vacilando

Vacilando (Spanish, v.) / va-ci-lan-do The act of wandering when the experience of travel is more important than reaching the specific destination. #PositiveLexicography ❝ In Spanish there is a word for which I can’t find a counterword in English. It … Continue reading

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Wednesday Win (2018-Aug-22)

What Tourists Don’t See. | Freerunning in Bruges With Dominic Di Tommaso. In an amazing video, Australian athlete Dominic Di Tommaso showcases our beautiful city of Bruges from an unseen perspective. As a tourist, Bruges’ typical canal boats are the … Continue reading

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Final Space – Season 1

Final Space Final Space is an American animated space opera comedy-drama television series developed for cable network TBS. The show was created by independent internet filmmaker Olan Rogers with David Sacks serving as showrunner. The series involves an astronaut named … Continue reading

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Disenchantment – Season 1

Disenchantment Disenchantment is an American adult animated fantasy sitcom created by Matt Groening. The series is Groening’s first production for Netflix; he previously created The Simpsons and Futurama for 20th Century Fox Television. Twenty episodes of the series have been … Continue reading

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This weeks links (2018-08-20)

In brief: * A Cartographer Is Mapping All of the UK’s National Parks, J.R.R. Tolkien-Style (2018-Feb-19) [mentalfloss] Cartographer Dan Bell makes national parks into fantasy lands. Bell, who lives near Lake District National Park in England, is currently on a … Continue reading

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Zapped

Zapped Zapped is a British sitcom, set in both the real world and a fantasy world, with the majority of characters and stories wholly set in the latter. It stars James Buckley as Brian Weaver, a real world inhabitant who … Continue reading

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Kawaakari

Kawaakari (Japanese, n.) かわあかり / ka-wa-a-ka-rE The glow of a river in the darkness, surface of a river gleaming in the darkness, gleam on a river at dusk. #PositiveLexicography

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Wednesday Win (2018-Aug-15)

Mountain In The Hallway – A Film By Teton Gravity Research Presented By Black Diamond Equipment When Tate MacDowell and Brian McDonnell were diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2016, they came face to face with life’s challenges. Never ones to … Continue reading

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