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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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  • Mummy!

    London is one of the world’s great cities. It’s also congested, dingy and apparently almost nobody speaks English here without a non-English accent. Well, at least not near the city’s centre. Actually, I did hear two families and both had the fairest hair you could have and then there was the erudite guy seated next…

  • Across the terrorist trail

    Air travel is such an amazing thing. Thirteen hours in a jet aircraft sounds like torture to many, but have they considered what it is that they are really doing? I suspect that the answer is “not really” considering the number of closed window shades and active entertainment units in operation. I’d rather keep staring…

  • Flying over Mars

    Emergency! Emergency! An alarm was sounding. Was it a fire? Was it time to evacuate? It was 5am. As my brain came online I realised that it was the clock beside the bed sounding an alarm. I blearily pressed the alarm button and returned to bed when suddenly Alex, disturbed by the noise, kicked out…

  • allrite.at

    If you are wondering why this blog has been so quiet, despite the upcoming trip, it was because I have been busy. Busy with work, busy with family, busy planning the Europe trip. But I have also been spending all my spare time on another travel project – a custom made online travel journal to…

  • Small steps and large leaps

    Ten years we’ve been married. Ten years have B’s dirty white and orange Brooks sneakers been walking the streets of the world along with the brown Kathmandu backpack on my back. Ten years ago we had a joyous wedding ceremony and reception, then retreated to the sanctuary of this hotel. Surely this is worthy of…

  • The weekend Rocked

    It’s just under a year since Alex and I last visited Rockhampton. It had been six years since our previous visit and we had just returned from a quick visit to Singapore, with Alex just recovering from a bought of gastro. B remained in Sydney. We only stayed a night, enough time to see my…

  • The daily grind

    For all the visits to Europe, Japan and the rest of Asia there is one journey I take more often than any other. Most days of the week see me in a car, train or on my legs between my home in Sydney’s south to Epping in the north, via childcare in North Ryde, a…

  • Canberra ain’t Japan: relearning other destinations

    The cherry trees were in blossom, but it wasn’t Japan. I need to relearn how to visit destinations outside of Asia. At night as I sat in the apartment I had to remember that I couldn’t just duck out into the corridor to grab something from a vending machine or pick up some dessert from a…

  • A hotel for all reasons

    I used to think that business people who stayed in bland chain hotels and ate room service dinners without exploring the city outside were plain silly. Now I understand. It’s funny, I was looking for accommodation in Prague for the upcoming family holiday there. I found one apartment hotel where the interiors looked like they…

  • Prague model trains

    Thanks to this thread on airliners.net I found some interesting model railway related “sights” in Prague. One suggested accommodation was the Ibis Hotel Mala Strana. Close by is Railroad Kingdom. My Googling also found the Vytopna Restaurant in Prague where the drinks are served by model trains.