The most unbelievable start to a game of rugby league that I was ever involved in happened at Dolphin Oval on Queensland Cup grand final day in 2002. 9,000 footy fans turned up to watch the Redcliffe Dolphins play the Ipswich Jets — the two teams had played in a…

A popular pilgrimage is Thailand’s ‘Death Railway’ and the Hellfire Pass rail cutting. ‘Death Railway’ is the name that was given to the rail line built during World War II — the 420 kilometre Thailand-Burma Railway line. The railway infrastructure was built by Japanese’s prisoners of war and forced Asian…

During the pandemic lockdown, social media companies dramatically increased the two-factor authentication on accounts. This is good for account security reasons, but it also means that a lot of social media accounts are now tied to a domestic mobile phone number or cell phone number for authenticating an account login. Changing SIM cards overseas …

Museum Siam is a Thai discovery museum located near the Grand Palace in Bangkok’s Phra Nakhon District. The one thing I enjoyed about visiting the Museum Siam was being able to walk through the historic building — the former home of the Ministry of Commerce.

One of Thailand’s popular Buddhas is the ‘Reclining Buddha’ and can be found in the Temple complex near the Grand Palace in Bangkok’s Phra Nakhon District. The Temple is located at Wat Phra Chetuphon Wimon Mangklaram (Wat Pho) วัดพระเชตุพนวิมล มังคลาราม (วัดโพธิ์) and was a passion project for King Rama I…

The National Museum Bangkok is home to the most amazing display of historic and prehistoric items in Thailand. In fact, the museum is so good, that you’ll find yourself spending most of the day at this museum — arrive early and prepare to leave at closing time.

Election time always throws-up some common grammar issues involving the use of capital letters for politicians, past politicians and the government departments. In this article we’ll research the rules around the capitalisation of words for politicians, their titles and government departments — but below is a quick guide showing some…

When referring to an important moment in history, is it grammatically correct to say that it was a historic event or an historic event? The answer is both — but, if you’re writing for an audience in America, it’s a historic. The grammar rules state that ‘a’ is used before…

The bike ride from Sydney to Cronulla takes almost 2 hours for the average rider to complete — it’s about 90 minutes and 20kms from Sydney Airport to Cronulla. The bike ride is mostly alongside the water’s edge and provides…