The town. In Queensland, Australia, at almost 160 km (98 miles) from Brisbane lies a town with a little over 2,000 inhabitants. One of the stories is that the town was named after Jimmy Crow, an Aborigine who helped early … Read More

My Australian relatives. My grandmother was a great story teller. I loved it when she started talking about the time when she was a little girl. A cat once attacked her, which made her fear cats for life. I believe … Read More

A band in our caravan. At 8 o’clock two musicians woke up in a double bed in our caravan. Next to them one of my English roommates was half asleep. They rushed out of the caravan park and into the … Read More

An invitation. In my previous blog about Crows Nest I told you the story of how I ended up in this small town, bunching roo paw and living in a caravan with two British girls. After a week or so … Read More

The TV series. Between 1995 and 2001 there was a tv series, a spin off from Hercules, called ”Xena, warrior princess”. It was filmed in New Zealand with a cast that was part American, part Kiwi. Lucy Lawless and Renée … Read More

Secret Valley. As a child I always had a thing for Australian tv-series. Or maybe a thing for Australia, that’s also possible. When I was eight years old I used to watch Secret Valley.  This was a serie about a … Read More