Uranium - whereto now?

Now that it looks as though the Gobal Financial Crisis is becoming a dim memory; I wonder what will happen to the price of Uranium?


Stockmarkets have recovered and the Chinese economy is still powering along. Oil is now trading around the $80 mark; well above its two year low. Yet the price of Uranium is still hovering just above $40. China is numerous nuclear reactors, has more on the drawing board and is planning even more. These will all need fuel.

PORT LINCOLN

Three nights/four days in Port Lincoln - we really enjoyed our stay there. It's just a 45 minutes flight from Adelaide; We flew the new Qantas service. They had very cheap airfares - hence our decision to go there. First impression of Port Lincoln came via our taxi driver. He was as friendly as most of the locals we dealt with. The city comes across a clean and pleasant. With about 14,000 inhabitants it is a busy little town which appears have adopted the cafe society judging by the looks of the many cafes in the shopping district. There seems to be a bus service but we chose to ignore it and walked to caught a cab.

www.menulog.com.au/port_lincoln
www.visitportlincoln.net/

The above statue is situated at the foreshore. It depicts "MAKYBE DIVA" the Port Lincoln horse who won the Melbourne Cup, Australia' premier horse racing event, not only once but three times.

www.makybediva.com.au/

The Hotel Port Lincoln was everything we expected including friendly service. The room was the cheap variety and fitted out for disabled yet we had no complaints. The hotel has a swimming pool and a gym. Sharky's bar is a public bar with TAB facilities which we patronised for our first lunch. The shared hamburger was very nice and filled both of us. The hotel also has a bistro and a'la carte restaurant. We had a "light" dinner at the Bistro, ordering a platter and a baguette. More than enough to fill us and well presented - highly recommended. I'd also recommend the hotel for the accomadation.

http://www.portlincolnhotel.com.au/

There is no shortage of hotels within walking distance of our hotel. The Tasman Hotel has their "nights" - we caught the pasta n pizza night. For $10.90 you get to eat all you can - a choice of penne or spaghetti and two sauces: bolognaise or napolitana. The salad bar (included) was sufficient. The pasta/sauce was rather nice; I'd have it again if we should revisit Port Lincoln.

On our second day we walked and managed to end up at the Cove Marina. This would be the place you'd aspire to to live in if you were a Port Linconite. It has a great looking hotel with an outdoor dining area which sits over the water. Unfortunately we must have struck a bad day as I felt the service was well below expectations and my wife saw JUST the meal on the specials board only to be told that it was yesterday's menu. We ended up sharing a seafood platter which certainly was delicious and worth the $30.

There are two chinese reastaurants in Port Lincoln - we lunched at the Ming Inn. The restaurant had a recent makeover which I rather liked. Kinda minimalist with that chinese touch, but I thought square backed chair would have topped off the design. Service and food quality matched the good looks of the place.


When we found out that there was a restaurant which won best seafood restaurant in Australia we had to try it. Del Gorgio was always well patronised when we walked past it. We only managed to get there for breakfast - they serve a beautiful breakfast.

On our last day we thought we'd try the Pier hotel for lunch. Reasonably priced counter meals with a huge serve of very good food.

Internet links

Here is a list of internet links which I find helpful.

For information on investing in Australian shares I use http://www.hotcopper.com.au . One needs to realise that this is a chat site and some of the recommendation may be from individuals who are using it for their own benfit but overall it is very readable and informative. Both http://www.kitcometals.com/ and http://www.kitco.com/ are informative when it comes to the price of precious (latter) and base metals (former). Also useful is http://www.liveindices.com/ which gives live prices of the major share indices.

When I have computer question or glitches I refer to http://www.whirlpool.net.au/ They seem to be a great bunch of people with a vast knowledge base. Of course for the latest in the computerworld one cannot go past http://www.tomshardware.com

Travel is nicely covered by the two booking sites http://www.wotif.com/ and http://www.lastminute.com even though lately I have found that one can get just as good a deal by ringing the actual place itself. www.virtualtourist.com/ and www.TripAdvisor.com are great sites to check out information about places to stay and visit. I actually find you can have a virtual holiday by using google earth and those two sites.

My green smoothie

I came across an interesting website yesterday - www.greensmoothiechallenge.com - As I have put on a couple a kilos in the last month I gave it a go and had my first smoothie. 3 bananas, a good handful of young spinach leaves all blended with apple juice. It tasted amazingly good. Today I'll have one with berries in it.

An article in todays paper related to Istanbul's plans on building their metro. Having been to Istanbul it got my attention. I just loved that city; their history is amazing and of course I crossed the Bosporus a couple of times just to say that "I've been to Asia 3 times in the last week."

What I saw of their public transport was the train from the airport and the tram which goes through the historic parts of Istanbul .It was very convenient as my hotel was right next to a tramstop. I never needed to concerned that I couldn't find my way back to the hotel.

According to the article Istanbul was the first European city to actually have a metro. I came across it by accident as a lot of my time spent there was just wandering around by foot. And I always referred to it as a "funicular" - one of two which I discovered.

Introduction

This is my own personal blog. At this stage I have not decided what to use this blog for. However I expect it to follow my thoughts over the next few years. As this is a fast moving world it would be nice to have a blog which show how the world evolves and how it effects me. My interests are wide and varying. In the future I hope to again create some bonsai trees, get my Noritake collection out and set expand on the display my wife set up many years ago.

The stockmarket has always fascinated me and I expect that I eventually become a day trader.