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Podcast Episode 1. Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
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New Zealand is pretty much made up of a whole bunch of volcanoes linked together by other volcanoes. Despite the risk of incineration, tourists like me flock to the Taupo Volcanic Zone to experience a little geothermal action.
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Shopping During Wartime, Ukraine
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Having their grocery shopping interrupted by air raid sirens is a daily occurrence for many Ukrainians.
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Counting The Cost, Ukraine
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A tour of a shattered village revealed the cost of Putin’s war for the rural people of Ukraine.
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Phaeton Museum of Technology, Ukraine
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Although the war in no way effects me as acutely as it does the Ukrainians, an afternoon at the Phaeton Museum of Technology, Zaporizhia, was a great way to forget about the war for a while.
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Evacuation, Ukraine
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Explosions rumbled, boomed and whumped as the Russians shelled the city from their positions just across the river. It was no place for an old lady bed-ridden with a broken leg.
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The Kindness of Strangers IV, Ukraine
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There’s plenty of Ukrainian strength of character on display as Putin’s war drags on.
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Heading South, Ukraine
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Our convoy of three cars, packed to the gunwales with boxes of food, pulled away from the curb and into the dim morning light. Our destination was a small rural village that until recently had suffered eight months of Russian occupation.
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Back in Ukraine
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I had witnessed the mass exodus of refugees at the start of Putin’s war. Now I was in a train packed with Ukrainians heading back to their country.
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Walking to Poland, Germany
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Whilst visiting Germany’s Baltic coast, I realised I was staying only a couple of kilometres from the Polish border. Being Australian, the thought of being able to walk to another country had me giggling like a kid.
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‘Morgen!’, Germany
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While enjoying the breakfast buffet in several different hotels, I noticed something very cool about German culture.