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25 February 2014

There's a new vegan store in Melbourne and it's the Cruelty Free Shop - located at 385 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy - in one of the vegan hubs of Melbourne, right next to Lord of the Fries and opposite Vegie Bar. This new Melbourne store opened to the ...

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06 December 2013

Wednesday was my birthday and I celebrated it with twelve of my friends at the high-end Urbane Restaurant in Brisbane. Head chef and vegan, Alejandro Cancino has created successful vegan degustation nights a couple of times each month. He had organis...

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29 August 2013

You may have seen the articles and media from last time I was in Indonesia. A few weekends ago I was again involved with being interviewed in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia where my friend, Irene has a vegan restaurant, Montong Cafe & Resto.   Th...

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07 August 2013

I spent 9 weeks in the USA this year from May to July. Here's my adventures in tweet form: (click on some of the .... links to see more)

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13 May 2013

I'm off to the US again (via Fiji) starting late tonight. I'm speaking at various events whilst I'm abroad. Here's the list: Vida Vegan Con Anti-Fur Society Conference North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies Animal Rights Conference V...

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13 March 2013

Quite a few new vegetarian and vegan restaurants have opened up since I was overseas on my 6 month SE Asia adventures. One of them is Tracey Chapman's Peace Pies at Redcliffe, Brisbane North.

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19 February 2013

So, my South East Asia adventures have come to a close. I had a wonderful time and met some amazing people. Even though I hadn't planned to, I was involved in a lot of vegan activism, outreach, food demos and talks - my friends would say, "of course!...

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15 February 2013

I've got a blog on my Leigh-Chantelle.com website about my South East Asia adventures - all in Tweets. Here's the rest. Here's the Blogs: Part 1: Bali, Indonesia Part 2: Java, Indonesia Part 3: Ubud, Bali, Indonesia Part 4: Amed & Nusa Dua, Bali...

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07 January 2013

The Vida Vegan Con is happening again! This year (again) in Portland, OR in the USA the second vegan bloggers conference will take place at the Portland Art Museum from Friday 24 May - Sunday 26 May. I'm speaking on the Saturday about Ethics Beyond ...

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05 December 2012

Tuesday 6 November – Bus from Chiang Mai to Mai Sai I finally arrived at 01:20 at the Chiang Mai train station – 5 hours late and after 16.5 hours on the train. Exhausted. It was easy to get to the Poi De Ping Hotel from the train station. A driv...