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Sysadmin, developer, web dude in a science research organisation. WordPress, Japan, planes, trains, Arduino, Raspberry Pi/Pico, puns, dad jokes, etc

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  • Ending the year as it began: Back to Melbourne

    Just as last year was bookended by railway journeys, so travelling in 2015 started and ended with family drives down to Victoria. Indeed this last day of 2015 has been spent driving home from the latest trip. Sydneysiders look at us strangely when we tell them we are spending some of our summer break in…

  • Catching the pocket rocket to Canberra

    717 It’s a feature of social media apps these days to remind you of what you posted in years past. Mine were showing photos of flights to Canberra a year and seven ago. Titles like “The Turbulence Wuss Flies to Canberra” don’t exactly inspire enthusiasm, but indeed I was scheduled to return to the nearby…

  • Celebrating 20 years of international travel

    Twenty years have passed today since the first time I stepped out of this country. In that time I’ve visited as many countries. I’ve posted a celebration of Twenty Years of International Travel at my other website at Whereis Allrite.

  • Suddenly Singapore: A flight failure

    After a long, long day of karate, taking Alex to activities and a 21st brithday party I was beyond ready to sleep. But, just as I was shutting my eyes I noticed my mobile phone light blinking. I switched it on to see a message from Jetstar saying that my flight to Melbourne was cancelled.…

  • Window shades open!

    When I was a young boy of maybe six or seven years old I rode in a sleeper on The Overland night train between Melbourne and Adelaide. I didn’t sleep. Instead I peered out of the window the entire night watching the world go past. I still do. Be it plane, train, boat or just…

  • Scenic World

    Summer arrived with the second month of Spring and beckoned us out of the house and up into the mountains. It’s been over twenty years since B and I headed up to Katoomba for all the usual tourist stuff on one of our very first dates. Now we have Alex, a fan of interesting forms…

  • Farewell to the Jetstar A330s

    Today marks the last day flying in Jetstar colours for the Airbus A330-200. After today all Jetstar’s medium and long haul flying will be performed by the Boeing 787-8. The event certainly won’t mark the end of the A330 in Australian skies. Many airlines use the aircraft on Australian routes. Most of the Jetstar A330s…

  • Malaysia 2000 revisited

    I recently discovered some photos from my second trip overseas, to Malaysia in March 2000. I’ve scanned them in an updated the post. On one hand it’s sad to realise how few photographic memories we have of the trip. But scanning them in is hard work. Viva digital!

  • travelling allrite @ instagram

    My 1000th Instagram photo! Thanks to those who have followed, liked and commented over the past few years. It’s appropriate that row K at Sydney Airport’s Terminal 1 houses Singapore Airlines who carried me on my first international flight, 20 years ago in December. #1000 #1K #instagood #sydney #sydneyairport #airport #travelinspiration #sia #singaporeairlines A photo…

  • The less lonely hotel

    My lonely hotel is lonely no more. It began life as a Hilton Hotel, sitting near the bridge across the Cooks River and overlooking the International Terminal of Sydney Airport. A brown and boxy building, I never found it particularly attractive but, as a young and inexperienced traveller more familiar with roadside motels and caravan…