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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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  • Snowdon Mountain Railway

    One of my colleagues recently returned from a trip to the UK and shared her photos with us. I was quite taken by her photos of Mount Snowdon in Wales and the Lakes District and entertained the thought of visiting them while in the UK in November. Unfortunately, the Snowdon Mountain Railway, a rack railway,…

  • The pointy end: Japan alone on Jetstar

    The magic of flying. At it’s best it’s about sailing high above the clouds through smooth skies listening to beautiful music. At it’s worst it’s squashed, exhausted, bored and unable to sleep, into a cramped aluminium can bouncing through turbulent night skies. From the comments of many you would think that Jetstar is all about…

  • Japanese train museums

    Modern transportation museum SCMAGLEV and railway park Two museums high on my list to visit when next in Japan!

  • First time in Japan (Historical)

    This year marked our ninth trip to Japan. It’s difficult to remember that there was once a time when we weren’t in love with this second home of ours. B’s brother was in love with everything Japanese. He’d dated a Japanese girl, been over there a couple of times and his comments encouraged us to…

  • A week in New Zealand’s South Island (historical)

    It’s time to return to another of our past trips overseas, this time to New Zealand’s South Island in January of 2003. Our wonderful honeymoon in Paris had instilled in both of us a desire to see more of the world outside of Australia. However, we had a new house to move into, furniture to…

  • Honeymoon in Europe – Part 10

    Lemon chicken and sweet and sour pork in Malaysia. Oh Mum, what a waste of a meal! And what does that have to do with Europe? My mum returned last week after spending a couple of them in Paris. She flew Malaysia Airlines (MAS) with a two day stopover in Kuala Lumpur. Fortunately, there was…

  • Canberra on a plane for sale

    Been busy with travel related activities for the past week. Only one actually involved travel. On Monday last week I flew down to Canberra on one of my work trips. Through smooth skies the Qantas Q400 turboprop carried us south over the northern suburbs of Wollongong, the southwest and, unusually, over the north of Lake…

  • History: Escaping the ratrace

    Here’s an account that I’ve copied across from elsewhere on my websites. It describes how my family found ourselves leaving Melbourne and living in Queensland. I was nine and a half when we packed up our bags and left Melbourne to explore Australia early in 1984. According to my parents, their intention was to leave…

  • Flying home: As late as a Thai train

    Australians… You know that you are back in Australia when there’s a women in the train scraping her toenails clean over the seat. B asks “Can we eat in this train?” I remind her that this is CityRail. How sensibilities change when you’ve been overseas for a while. There was a older Australian man and…

  • No kicks in KIX

    Sitting here in Kansai International Airport when we should have departed almost two hours ago. Our Jetstar flight is delayed by four hours and nothing is open here. At least we were each given 1000 Yen vouchers for food, enough for two decent sized dinners and drinks. And there’s free wireless close to the gate.…