Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Orlando transit stop

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As I type Garry and I are sitting in comfortable cane armchairs at Orlando airport. We're waiting to board our connecting flights to New...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

It's fake, it's fun, it's Florida

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Orlando lacks absolutely any authenticity, yet wears it like a badge of honour. Its resorts and parks pedal a sanitized version of almost ev...
Thursday, July 26, 2007

The Deep South beckons

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The countdown is on! We're completing last minute details today in preparation for our grand adventure in the Deep South. Tomorrow morni...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Blue skies over London

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London continues to experience the wettest Summer in living memory. It's hard to believe that after 18 months in the UK we're finall...
Sunday, July 22, 2007

The city that never sleeps

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I've just flown in from another three days working in New York. Heathrow was in chaos. Incredibly heavy rainfall yesterday had resulted ...
Friday, July 13, 2007

4000,16, 8.2,282

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My visitor counter passed the 4000 mark overnight. I installed this counter back in March last year. Over the last 16 months an average of 8...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Soaking it up in Oslo

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Most of the UK experienced record rainfall in June. Yorkshire alone experienced rainfall more than 300% above average. Across the North Sea,...
Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Colour my world

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Overnight I've used Virtual Tourist to generate a map of the world showing all of the countries I've visited since my first overseas...
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Monday, July 02, 2007

Eight decades and counting

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Garry and I drove my parents down to Fernhurst today to join celebrations for my Aunt Shirley’s 80th birthday. The trip was relatively swift...

The dame in the dome

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Last night my parents and I enjoyed an incredible music experience at the new O2 Arena. We saw Andrea Bocelli in concert, performing along s...
Saturday, June 30, 2007

The Drowsy Chaperone

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The Drowsy Chaperone was refreshing and fun. You must go. Mum and Dad provided tickets for this evening’s performance as an early Birthday ...

Random acts of violence

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Terrorism made itself very personal today. Shortly after 1:00am this morning an unidentified man parked a green Mercedes outside one of the ...
Friday, June 29, 2007

Theatre, theatre everywhere

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My Mum and Dad have arrived back in London this evening. They caught the Lufthansa shuttle into London City, transferred on the Underground ...
Thursday, June 28, 2007

History in the making

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Almost 17 years ago I found myself in London during an unexpected transition of power. On November 22, 1990, the airwaves were filled with ...
Monday, June 25, 2007

Dome debut

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The redeveloped O 2 Dome was finally opened to the public today. Formerly known as the Millennium Dome, it has sat largely unused on the ba...
Saturday, June 23, 2007

Little scraps of trivia

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From time to time I come across useless pieces of trivia about life in London. I often find these items in the newspaper, rip them out and l...
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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Domestic details

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Our landlord surprised us this week. After months and months of letter writing and nagging, we've finally had decorators in for the last...
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Monday, June 18, 2007

Tons of Turkey

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FINAL UPDATE I've finally populated the blog with back-dated posts capturing all of our recent adventures in Turkey. I've kicked of ...
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Sunday, June 17, 2007

Mountains and Minimundus

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On Sunday Hamish drove my parent and I across the southern valleys of Austria to Kitzbühel. We drove across a stunning landscape of feilds a...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Graz

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The village of Thal bei Graz can be found less than two kilometres from the heart of Graz in Austria. This unassuming village of 2,138 peopl...