‘Australia is a particle collider’
Hindsight is a beautiful thing. Daily stories of life on the road can be thrilling, but it’s often only when you leave a place that you have time to reflect, which is why it’s worth reading Leaving Oz, Brendan Lawlor’s thoughtful and thought-provoking post on his overall impressions of the great Down Under.
Making the most of our ‘golden age for cheap travel’ by taking a round-the-world trip with his two young daughters, Irishman Brendan has been blogging throughout the past 121 days as he experiences ‘the many faces of Australia - natural, human, historical’, from clocking the culture of Sydney and Melbourne, to communing with nature in Uluru and Fraser Island.
Musing on Australia’s unique identity - a mixture of European heritage and independent spirit, ongoing Aboriginal agony and pioneering innovation, deep tradition and forthright irreverance - Brendan explains that
Australia is a particle collider. It takes elements from many different sources and bangs them together at high speed, each time creating something new. It is too diverse to define but still hangs together in a way that works, defying expectations.
Read the rest of the post here. Brendan and the girls are now well into their New Zealand leg of their trip, so keep an eye on his blog for more wise and witty words from the southern hemisphere.
