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Outback trio

It’s just a big rock in the ground, isn’t it? Kata Tjuta, Uluru and Kings Canyon Kata Tjuta (also known as Mount Olga), Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kings Canyon in Australia’s Northern Territory make a trio of outstanding geological and indigenous spiritual and cultural icons set against the unspoilt red earth of the outback.

Feast and footwork

“It’s amazing what a lesbian with an umbrella can do,” the brightly dressed middle aged woman joked. We had somehow, by chance, found ourselves at an outside bar near Victoria Square, just before the start of the Feast Parade, Adelaide’s Gay Pride festival.

Geisha graduation …

The ornate fabrics making up the kimonos, obis (waistbands) and kanzashi (hair ornaments) of these maiko on their graduation to become fully fledged geiko (Kyoto equivalent of geisha) – mere outward symbols of an inner grace. The ornate kanji typography on sake barrels in Kyoto, Japan – post graduation celebration? Arigatou gozaimasu. In response to The Daily Post’s

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