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    2025 | buns,  australia,  melbourne,  oceania

    Buns2025: Day 2 – Melbourne

    Soundtrack: “Under the Clocks”, Weddings Parties Anything Finally made it to day 2. Currently sitting in the airport departure terminal, watching a dog get unloaded from a flight and I’m only a little damp around the eyes. Day 2 kicked off with heading to my usual cafe, Euro Lane I think it’s called, tucked away in a little alley between Flinders and Collins, that for a number of years now have done some amazing middle-eastern/spanish breakfast options, piles of turkish bread, spicy beans, eggs, and the like. It’s been the staple for a few years now. I last enjoyed their wonderful plates of goodness when I was here in June.…

  • 2024 | baltics24,  europe,  latvia,  riga

    Baltics24: Day 11 – Riga

    The Riga Aviation Museum is a museum in a very different sense of the word to how we would generally understand it. It’s out by the Riga airport, so it takes about 20-30 minutes to get to, including a bit of forest where you start to wonder if you’ll ever be seen again. Through this, we pulled up at a gate, or just past a gate as the driver didn’t realise we’d arrived, where we could see some old planes and helicopters sitting just the other side. There was a a strip of razor-wire atop the fence, an opened padlock on the gate, and a number to call, and after…