Allen promotes Australian Festival November 2007 at Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, USA.

Loopyplus featured 91 year old Alan Waddell a little while back, here he is again.

A perfect fit as a Wortley Street, Balmain, fence cuddles its tree friend.

Alan is wearing a T-shirt kindly supplied by the wonderful people organising the Australian Festival - Celebrating The Land Down Under - to be held November 2-4 in 2007 at Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, USA. Their website is well worth a look. Alan is helping them promote both Australia and walking.

Source http://www.walksydneystreets.net/media_press_radio02.htm

In brief

Alan Waddell was encouraged by his doctor to take up walking. After a while, repeating the same route every day became boring. So Alan Waddell decided to walk every street in his own suburb.
In December 2002, this idea of walking every street was expanded to include neighbouring suburbs and so his odyssey began.

Alan's site WalkSydneyStreets is primarily about an unusual collection of 815 photos of Sydney taken whilst walking every street, lane, bush track etc in 244 suburbs (so far) of Sydney. There have been over 1,068,000 pages viewed by over 348,000 visitors from 163 countries (latest new ones are Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Guyana, Iraq, Mali and Montenegro) - see Visitor Countries for full list.

Below are a couple of Sydney Suburbs more colourful Murals from Alan's photos.

More of these at
http://www.walksydneystreets.net/surprises_paintings01.htm
http://www.walksydneystreets.net/surprises_paintings02.htm

Want Inspiration? In Sydney Nsw you will find it

WalkSydneyStreets

Want some inspiration to get up and live life? Go to WalkSydneyStreets where 92yr old Alan Waddell will give it to you in street loads. S ee the real Sydney Australia while your there. As someone that didn't listen to the docs advice Alan puts me to shame. Well never too late is it. You can send Alan a note to be added to his mailing list or just say G'day. I woke up a few hours after doing this to see he had personally answered my email. What a legend. Inspiration category.
Do you have a friend living in Bondi? Birchgrove or maybe Concord just go to Alans index and have a closer look at what that suburb looks like. If your a trivia fan Alan has that as well.


















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In brief
Alan Waddell 92, was encouraged by his doctor to take up walking. After a while, repeating the same route every day became boring. So Alan Waddell decided to walk every street in his own suburb. In December 2002, this idea of walking every street was expanded to include neighbouring suburbs and so his odyssey began.

Nosey in Newtown

My second find was Nosey in Newtown which is all about what goes on right under your nose. It's curiosity about your habitat and engagement with your home. It's treading every footpath and delighting in every funny-looking dog and finding the beautiful in the familiar




This entry here is another inspiration in itself. Nosey in Newtown writes on

Nosey in Newtown writes on the Stars of Track and Field Mural RailCorp has recently erected a massive concrete sound barrier along the tracks at Macdonaldtown, completely obstructing the view of the mural. Nosey writes,

The 'Three Proud People' mural on the side of a house near Macdonaldtown Station is one of my favourite pieces of Newtown street art. Not two proud people, but three.... Read the full entry here


The Newtown area has a wealth of Street Art you can see some examples at EN Wikepedia here

One of the now vanished Purple Haze Jim Hendrix (artist unknown)