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Mark Thomson
Jun 19, 20222 min read
An excursion down to Arm End to fly the drone and capture some dramatic clouds
A few weeks ago it was a lovely clear afternoon, with barely a breath of wind, and I had a spare few hours, so I took a drive down to Arm...
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Mark Thomson
Jun 19, 20222 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 62 - Magical Madagascar
I have to say that Madagascar was actually not on my list of countries from the 2016 census ( which is of course well out of date, but...
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Mark Thomson
Jun 17, 20222 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 61 - Talk with an Egyptian
I have been doing this podcast for almost 2 years now, and through the process I've learnt many things. One thing that I've taken on...
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Mark Thomson
Jun 16, 20222 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 60 - In between Hong Kong and Tasmanian culture
I thought it would be interesting to have Anthony on the podcast because of his rather unusual reason for coming to Tasmania and his...
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Mark Thomson
Jun 5, 20222 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 59 - Norway
In the case of many migrants I've interviewed, coming to Australia/Tasmania has meant coming to a place with a better quality of life,...
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Mark Thomson
May 4, 20222 min read
Photo and video projects in 2022 so far
For a while in 2022 I sort of took a break from photography and just stopped doing my usual "photo walks" or anything much beyond...
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Mark Thomson
Apr 29, 20222 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 58 - On rural life in Kenya
I guess Kenya is one of those countries we might associate with the quintessential Africa - herds of Wildebeest, sweeping savannah,...
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Mark Thomson
Apr 27, 20222 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 57 - Small island community of the Seychelles
There were so many aspects of Anna's personal story that I found interesting that it was hard to decide what to leave out. I must admit...
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Mark Thomson
Apr 25, 20222 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 56 - Traditional village life in Portugal
As any of you who follow my podcast will know, I frequently ask my subjects about their childhood and upbringing. This is the time of...
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Mark Thomson
Apr 14, 20223 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 55 - Iraq and a touch of Palestine
There have been numerous interviews where I have felt like there was so much more we could have talked about and that my final edit...
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Mark Thomson
Apr 2, 20223 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 54 - Singer and jeweller from Slovenia
This was my first attempt at interviewing a couple, I hadn't really been able to do it before easily, but now I have a new microphone...
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Mark Thomson
Apr 1, 20222 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 53 - Barber from Sierra Leone
If you look at the history of migration across the world, one of the common threads you see is how migrants bring both new skills and a...
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Mark Thomson
Mar 24, 20222 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 52 - Beautiful Bolivia
Sometimes in these interviews that I do, the thing that I think is going to be interesting, doesn't end up being much of a focus but then...
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Mark Thomson
Mar 24, 20223 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 51 - Conflict in the Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo is a big country, the second-largest in Africa, and also one of the most populous. It's also rich in...
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Mark Thomson
Mar 9, 20224 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 50 - From a divided South Africa
It's interesting that when I sit down with people for the podcast and ask them to tell me a bit about their life story, there is often a...
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Mark Thomson
Mar 6, 20222 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 49 - Mysterious Mauritius
Mauritius is a small and quite remote set of islands in the Indian Ocean, and some 2000km off the coast of the African mainland. So...
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Mark Thomson
Mar 5, 20222 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 48 - Unknown Honduras
I think Honduras is the first country I've come across about which I've realised that I knew almost nothing, apart from the most basic...
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Mark Thomson
Mar 5, 20222 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 47 - Exotic Ecuador
Ecuadoreans are another one of those nationalities that I didn't really expect to find in Tasmania, but doing so gave me an opportunity...
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Mark Thomson
Feb 10, 20223 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 46 - The complexities of Ethiopia
It is, of course, impossible to fully encapsulate all the aspects of a nation or culture in a single podcast, especially in regards to a...
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Mark Thomson
Feb 10, 20222 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania podcast update : The impact of some much-needed publicity
After a mostly quiet and frustrating January as far as the podcast goes, things have really burst into a hive of activity in the last few...
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