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Oct 02, 2021 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Oct 04, 2021 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Oct 04, 2021 12:07 PM
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All things Japan - what you might not learn from your travel agent!
Oct 12, 2021
Stephen will provide insights into numerous aspects of everydat life in Japan that most tourists wouldn't be breifed on before their departure from home and might not encounter on their trip. For instance, how many tourists sty in a love hotel? Purchase underwear from a vending machine? Or know the procedure for taking a bath in a hot spring (onsen) or pubic wash-house (sento)? What about those long fish shped flags (koi no bori) whci fly from late April into early May - what do they mean? Stephen will touch on all these and more in what promises to be a quite fascinating. He has a deep well of experience from which to draw, having lived in Japan for nine years - run two businesses, married and raised a family as well as travelling extesively. |
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Oct 15, 2021 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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Oct 18, 2021
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Oct 26, 2021 9:00 AM - Oct 29, 2021 2:00 PM
The club is planning a trip to Adelaide for October 2021.
Like our Bright visit earlier this year the daily agenda is loose, but members will socialise regularly over meals or other activities. Members are to book their own air fares - current (May 2021) return tickets seem to be about $350, but of course jump around. Book early.
We have looked at three central Adelaide hotels, Rivera, Sage and Grosvenor, at $270-300 per night per room when we inquired last month. Maybe share a room?
Arts oriented suggestions - only one is pricey.
1. The main galleries and museums
2. Numerous specialist venues eg Mary McKillop Museum, Ayers House Mansion, Spinners and Weavers Guild.
3. Special trip to Hans and Nora Heysen's home "The Cedars" and studios at Hahndorf (about $150)
4. Carrick Hill, the previous home of Sir Edward and Lady Ursula Hayward; internationally significant art collections; original stables; on 40 hectares and native bushland. Pic of mansion below.
General suggestions
1. Guided walking tour of Adelaide CBD ($30)
2. Donald Bradman Collection during guided tour at Adelaide Oval (pic below)
2. Botanic Garden(s)
3. Day trips to Barossa, McLaren Vale, Victor Harbor, or Adelaide Hills (each about $150).
4. Free time for shopping and Adelaide's eye-popping night life and dining out.
5. Tram trip to Glenelg (pic below)
Interested? Contact julie.reid52@bigpond.com or Tony tthomas061@gmail.com
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Oct 27, 2021 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
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Oct 31, 2021 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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Nov 01, 2021 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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The Boys' Club
Nov 09, 2021
Michael Warner is an award winning investigtaive journalist with Melbourne's Herald-Sun newspaper. He won the 2018 Alf Brown Award as the Australian Football Media Association's most outstanding performer and and has collected multiple Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards, News Awards and an Australian Sports Commission award for his coverage of the Essendon doping scandal, West Coast Eagles illicit drugs saga and Melbourne tanking affair. In this talk, Michael will speak about his book, The Boys' Club, which outlines the scandals, secrets and deal-making that shaped one of the nation's most powerful institutions, the AFL. Revealing how a fledgling state administrative body evolved into the Australian Football League and its meteoric rise to become one of the richest and most powerful organisations in the land, award-winning investigative journalist Mick Warner delivers a fascinating insight into key figures and their networks. |
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Nov 15, 2021 12:07 PM
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Nov 18, 2021
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Nov 19, 2021 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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Nov 19, 2021 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
The wine aficionados of Bearbrass Probus Club gather every six weeks to sample a collection of wines which they may not have tried before. The aims of each session are to develop more discriminating palates, increase our vocabulary of wine making and tasting terms and to taste a range of wines which we might not have considered buying - for whatever reason. Oh - and to have heaps of fun of course! Cost $25 per head (PLEASE BRING CASH). |
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Nov 24, 2021 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
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Nov 28, 2021 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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Dec 06, 2021 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Dec 06, 2021 12:07 PM
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Dec 15, 2021
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Dec 17, 2021 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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