In the footsteps of Captain Wales
There are a few obscure references in that title! The first is to "The Footsteps of Mr Kurtz" an excellent book by Michaela Wong about President Mobutu of the DRC. (That title is itself a reference to the main character in "The Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.) The second is to Prince Harry's preferred name when he was in the British Army. He visited Footscray on Wednesday this week as we did on Friday. We visited different parts of the area to Harry, and I doubt I'd have got on to the turf of Whitten Oval. Our reason for visiting was to explore the Heavenly Queen Temple, which we had seen from the train as we went to Williamstown a few weeks ago. A helpful staffer from the City of Maribyrnong had provided us with a map of the area. Our route was starting at the station and more or less following the orange line, diverting to the yellow line, then the blue line and back on the green line. These nice little cottages were in the area around th...
