Kate McNamara
@kaydo.bsky.social
kaydo™ - 😱 - sunbeam correspondent ☀️ - These are not the views of my employer - (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
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There is a serious seagull oversupply at parliament house tonight. This is too many.
Happy Wrensday Wednesday! A tiny purple-backed fairywren on an aloe plant at the farm near Quorn. #wrensday
5 weeks travel: a cinnamon scroll every day, a week spent on dehydrated camp rations, min over 20k steps a day, tried 3 of scandanavia's self proclaimed "worlds best hotdogs" (separate claims), had a $45 hamburger in Norway. Now home and my smart scale asks if it's someone else due to gains 😐
Today in tiny delights / near death experience : Rinko Park parkrun in Japan for their 50th milestone Seriously hot day (39°C feels like temp) for it but buoyed by the loveliest and most welcoming volunteer crew I've encountered. #loveparkrun #parkrunjp 🇯🇵
I think key to a warming sign impact is not making the offensive action look enjoyable
Abandoned run 5km in because it was too hot. Otherwise having a pretty normal day. 🇫🇷 (In addition to being an ice cream influencer, I should be an influencer for how to spend your entire annual calorie budget before August. Good crossover)
72hrs in Edinburgh : saw some castles, visited some galleries, hiked a windy/slippery mountain, walked a river chasing sculptures, biked around town, ran in the rain, jogged a canal (and defo never considered whether I could steal a boat). Too many people about the place. Good. 🏴
Today in Edinburgh someone said "oh, you're Australian! Does the name Steve Waugh mean anything to you?" Delightfully unexpected reference for the day.
At Edinburgh castle and they rent out audio guide devices that look like phones. So many family groups walking around looking like they're all on separate calls, bored and stuck on hold. Weird vibe.
14°C is lie in the park with drinks and friends weather in reykjavik. 😍
No Parkruns in Iceland so I made my own through the Öskjuhlíð park in Reykjavík. Safety first etc. Saw a few massive bunnies and a lot of fluffy greenery. Didn't die once. 🇮🇸 #loveparkrun
Met a retired American couple yesterday who were telling me the largest impact of their travel to Australia was their exposure to the Flat White. Maybe men at work should change the song lyrics?
Iceland sure has a lot of American dudes in shorts on a cold day telling everyone they are actually Norwegian
I was pretty disappointed to come to Iceland with no longboarding skills, but really the roads aren't made for skateboards as practical transport. Walter Mitty was misleading.
I wonder if Iceland has a dial before you dig service but for hot springs
Today's painfully Australian moment : I said we were "within cooee" of a major town. This is not a phrase literally anyone in my international crew could understand. This is also not a phrase I think I've ever used when actually *in* Australia where it might be understood. 😐
Murmuration of starlings by Xavi Bou from his series Ornitographies, Northern Spain, December 2018
I like to listen to an album that I don't usually hear when travelling as it serves as a future reminder of the adventure. I was listening to Jose Gonzalez and Bon Iver travelling through Iceland. I just got on a tour bus today and the guide is playing "don't stop believing" by Journey. 😐
Was taking a photo of the cool lobby but in Iceland's endless quest to be deeply weird the fancy hotel was blasting "monster mash" through the lobby speakers.
Not saying that not much happens in this part of northern Iceland but just passed through a town whose claim to fame was the former home of Iceland's tallest man. There was a life size painting of him in the main street.
I may be in Iceland but my brain still processes every distant, small, dark, angry-looking boulder as a potential wombat. Not weird. So far, 0% wombats.
The chances of being stalked by a puffin are low, but never zero.
Having a pretty normal Saturday amongst the summer icebergs. 🧊 🇮🇸
