Mantra South Bank

Arrived in Sydney on the 30th and we stayed at the Mantra hotel in Chatswood which is on the north side of the harbour. We stayed here because it was the cheapest place that was left for new year and we booked it back in August which apparently is late as ...

... 't get out her whip and start lashing me. So after many sedatives and numerous repetition of the 'Jo Davis doesn't give up' mantra, Lady Luck smiled down on me. I got a decent gig as a secretary for Energy Australia, the down under electricity giant. ...

... to the Gaza Strip and do seven hours of hard labor with migrant workers, for free?  Me, I guess.  My only comforting mantra was something I heard a long time ago, "what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger."     Since Israel has ...

... , it's a nice, wee view’. Over lunch we decided to try and book a ride on the Shotover Jet for the afternoon.  Our mantra by now was - if it's fine and you want to do something, do it straight away as you never know when the weather ...

... Japan?" in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami (no shyte, this is a true story).  So far, sticking to the mantra that a good wine is one that we like has miraculously worked.  We are amazed we are still served in Oddbins or Threshers, ...

... on one of the lawns.......why???  A further stroll across the Brisbane river over the Goodwill footbridge saw us on the south bank area where all the cafes etc are.  We went interlectual and opted for the Queensland Museum, which was totally ...

... hey???" Oh piss off, I only wanted a little bit.... God, I write about food alot. Anyways, I walked along the south bank too, past signposts with suggested circuits and maps for runners, past korean tourists, past japanese tourists, past ...

... and incense all whirling around, day and night. The part of the city where it all happens is a 3km stretch along the south bank of the river (strangely, opposite the city, there's just agricultural fields). Over the centuries, the river banks have ...

... where we were to start our trek. The road got dustier and bumpier and the corners more and more terrifying as we followed the south bank of the canyon through lots more tiny villages, Arcadio pointed out the Incas tombs set high up in the sheer sides of ...

... though how having worked on the 'Soutbank' for the majority of my working life, that both Melbourne and Brisbane have their own 'south bank' with concert halls and galleries on it. Home from home really!   So, having had a happy few weeks catching ...

... -Padmi-Hom” mantra inscribed stones within, can be seen everywhere as we approach a town or a monastery. This ubiquitous Buddhist Mantra literally means “Oh Jewel in the Lotus” and that’s what they seek, while murmuring the mantra ...

... to see an auto-rickshaw pulled up beside us, with the man inside yelling the names of random monuments and occasionally inserting the mantra, "good price!". they can spot these books from a mile away. we haggled him down to a decent price and got ...

... .  People milled about everywhere, strolling the shops, eating in sidewalk cafes, enjoying the rare sun.  Bergeners have a mantra that rhymes in Norwegian – “There is no such thing as bad weather, just wrong clothes.”  I ...

... slopes of the Tor. I always found hippies to be interesting case studies and even some of them good company until they repeated that common mantra about the world needing to change. My view was that I had worked a lot of years to get the money to see the ...

... into, what to expect in the darkness beyond and where I had to go after dropping down into the waterfall.  He just repeated his mantra “Hold on, don’t let go, hold on.” And then he let me go and I dropped down into a dark pool, but ...

... that we were tolerating trying to sleep on trains and the click clack of the wheels on the rail lines was almost our mantra that lulled us into torpor and sporadic sleep. The Amsterdam stopover was only long enough to witness all the usual suspicious ...

... open wounds, my knees and ankles burn with fatigue. But I know I am close now, and can manage these distractions. It is now my mantra. "Must. Get. To. Ocean." We are at the base of the red iron oxide Namib desert dunes. Hot wind sings in my ears as I ...

... it, and don’t feel the need to apologize to any omnipotent being if I screw up and much prefer the more peaceful mantra of a little known Australian comic who when talking about the eternal fight between Islam and the Jews once stated, “We ...

... recurring nightmares. Joblessness, the government believes, equals instability, which is an existential threat to the Communist party. The long-held mantra is that the economy has to grow by at least 7 per cent every year in order to provide jobs for ...

... The thought of doing this makes me nervous for some reason- as I am sure you can tell if you have read thus far- but my mantra is "I can be scared, but that won't stop me". So I walked off to find the 'right' coffee shop because after all, atmosphere ...