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johnfowles · 10-01-2003, 10:45 AM

quote:Originally posted by gina:
IHi I am in Austraila and in the Norther Terr
of Alice SPrings
Amazing Gina
yesterday morning was the great CBC Gord interview which you may or may not have heard
the interviewer Sheila somebody in Toronto actually told Gord that she had received an e-mail that very morning from a Canadian girl in the Alice who recounted an amazing evening listening to a folk singer who when she requested a Gord song obliged by singing one then went on to singing Lightfoot for the rest of the evening!!
One of my remaining ambitions having seen most of Europe and Canada and all but a handful of the States is to go from Adelaide to Alice Springs on the Ghan.
I have been impressed with that idea realy ever since reading my all-time favo(U)rite novel "A Town Like Alice" by the great English novelist Nevil Shute and seeing the gorgeous Australian mini-series. My wife and I are members of a New Jersey chapter of a Shute society and are off on Friday to attend a meeting in Cape Cod. Some of the others who wiil be there were in Portsmouth England back in July for a Gathering at which the Mayor of Alice spoke.
A very good friend in England who happens to be not only a Lightfoot fan but also descended from a First-Fleeter will probably retire home in a few years and we pledged that one day we will ride the Ghan together
Sorry to be boring most Lightheads
So what is this "Ghan":-
there is a nice site at:- http://www.gsr.com.au/ghan/
I was also yesterday looking at the Alice Springs town site:- http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/
Some very nice pictures I especially liked the one showing the
"The Todd River in flood through Heavitree Gap" (presumably a rare occurrence??)

cheers
John Fowles

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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited October 01, 2003).]

10-01-2003, 10:45 AM	#15
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	quote:Originally posted by gina: IHi I am in Austraila and in the Norther Terr of Alice SPrings Amazing Gina yesterday morning was the great CBC Gord interview which you may or may not have heard the interviewer Sheila somebody in Toronto actually told Gord that she had received an e-mail that very morning from a Canadian girl in the Alice who recounted an amazing evening listening to a folk singer who when she requested a Gord song obliged by singing one then went on to singing Lightfoot for the rest of the evening!! One of my remaining ambitions having seen most of Europe and Canada and all but a handful of the States is to go from Adelaide to Alice Springs on the Ghan. I have been impressed with that idea realy ever since reading my all-time favo(U)rite novel "A Town Like Alice" by the great English novelist Nevil Shute and seeing the gorgeous Australian mini-series. My wife and I are members of a New Jersey chapter of a Shute society and are off on Friday to attend a meeting in Cape Cod. Some of the others who wiil be there were in Portsmouth England back in July for a Gathering at which the Mayor of Alice spoke. A very good friend in England who happens to be not only a Lightfoot fan but also descended from a First-Fleeter will probably retire home in a few years and we pledged that one day we will ride the Ghan together Sorry to be boring most Lightheads So what is this "Ghan":- there is a nice site at:- http://www.gsr.com.au/ghan/ I was also yesterday looking at the Alice Springs town site:- http://www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au/ Some very nice pictures I especially liked the one showing the "The Todd River in flood through Heavitree Gap" (presumably a rare occurrence??) cheers John Fowles ------------------ My Gordon Lightfoot webring starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited October 01, 2003).]