In the UK for Christmas, I caught COVID - and now I can't come home
Flying to England for Christmas to see his ageing parents was always going to be a risk - but for Karl Quinn, not doing so was even riskier.
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Karl Quinn
Karl is a senior entertainment writer at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
It's fnard, but we'll make it: Finding hope in one last hike
Usually a hike is just a hike. But on the last weekend before Australia went into shutdown, it somehow seemed so much more.
One of the world's most magnificent hikes is on our doorstep
In the before shots, trampers are walking on well-marked paths; in the after shots, they're wading in waist-deep water.
Steam dreams
Proud Murray keeps on turning
Moama to Barmah and back takes an hour by car, but six days on the river, which was plenty of time for Karl Quinn and his fellow crewmates to imagine themselves in a different era.