Category: Cohen’s Diary
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Working with a Lion
Much of my time in Brisbane was spent working at The Lion Richlands restaurant.Was there a real lion? No. Was it a circus sometimes? Maybe a little but what workplace isn’t. If you’ve been following Kleo and I for a while now you’ll know that we came to Brisbane for the purpose of finding work…
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A Year in Australia
10:30pm tonight (or there abouts) marks one year since I landed in Australia. One year since I finished 9 months of travel through eastern Europe. And what a year it has been! In that year I A very full year and I don’t think I’d have done anything differently. There has also been a lot…
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An ANZAC Day to Remember
The sun rises on our backs, the cool air bites against check, the gentle wash of waves upon the shore. The final notes of the Last post ring out across the hushed crowd. Silence pervades ANZAC Cove upon the coast of the Gallipoli Peninsula. I realised quite early on in my travels that I would…
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One Year on
Monday the 20th February 2023 marked exactly one year since Kleo and I left New Zealand. A year of adventure that I never expected. In the lead up to leaving I had no clue where I would go, what I would do, how long I would be gone for. I told myself make it six…
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Goodbyes and See Ya Later’s
I wrote the following back in October 2022 when I was less than a month out from leaving Europe. At the time I was in Ioannina, Greece and if my photo gallery is reminding me correctly I was sitting on the edge of the lake in the afternoon sun, enjoying my book and reflecting on…
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Welcome to 2023
We are almost three weeks into 2023, a year that for me is filled with even more unknowns than the last and that’s saying something. Kleo and I ended 2022 watching fireworks in Brisbane, Australia enjoying the atmosphere of a busy precinct of bars and music. And spent the first day of 2023 resting and…
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A Birthday
It’s 2:10 am in the morning, after an excellent evening of fun, questions, and perhaps more than a few drinks. We are now into week three of camp in Paltinis and under new management providing an array of fresh and mayhaps unexpected changes. It will be a few days for us to settle into the…
