Archive for the 'Travel' Category

Travel Purchases - Lowepro Slingshot 350 AW, Lonely Planet Guide Eastern Europe, Lonely Planet Best In Travel 2009 Guide, 4 x Kathmandu Travel Pouches, 1 Kathmandu Travel Alarm Clock.

With just under 4 weeks until I depart Melbourne, and with some recent purchases shown above, I though it was time for an initial Trip ‘09 blog [...]

From The Age… dated June 26 2007…
“Smorgon heir puts money into green service stations” “At a tiny service station in High Street, Prahran, under the brand name Conservo, Mr Edwards and his business partners will start selling E10 (unleaded petrol blended with 10 per cent ethanol), B20 (diesel blended with 20 per cent biodiesel) and [...]

Now we are all trying to do our bit for the environment, and increasingly people are leaving their car at home and taking public transport to work/uni/school. I would like to class me as one of those people, who is committed to reducing the amount i use my car. If I am going into uni, [...]

In this developing world of technology, I am continually amazed by the things you can do with common consumer devices and the internet. I am also interested in the distribution of information, and the opportunity for development in the arts.
After discovering the amazing world of podcasts (see the Wiki), and using my whole download usage [...]

Jun 30
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London (Day 4)

We woke up pretty late considering our planned day. Neither of us can help it… Elle is exhausted and the bed i am sleeping on is the most comfortable i have seen in over a month, I’m catching up on lost hours! After Elle taking 2 hours in the bathroom, we set out, destination, Buckingham [...]

Jun 29
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London (Day 2)

Reg took me out today for a bit of a tour around some of his favorite spots. We started at Hyde Park, which we got to via bus via Shepards Bush. It was huge and very plesent indeed. We took some photos of the squirrels and saw the Peter Pan Memorial. I also had a [...]

Jun 28
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London (Day 3)

Well… Today… I once again didn’t do much… I’m sorry people, I’m on holidays, can you blame me???
I woke up late and got hooked on a certain website on the net called LinkedIn… Essentially it’s a Professional Facebook, where you put your job history on it and it becomes a kind of online resume/job sharing [...]

Jun 27
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London (Day 2)

Reg took me out today for a bit of a tour around some of his favorite spots. We started at Hyde Park, which we got to via bus via Shepards Bush. It was huge and very plesent indeed. We took some photos of the squirrels and saw the Peter Pan Memorial. I also had a [...]

Well, i slept for 14 hours, only waking up once, when Elle got home from work. The poor thing is working 12 hour night shifts and then on her days off, is working another job at the local pub. So she essentially does nothing except work and sleep! She is wrecked and is showing it. [...]

I was up at some ungodly hour of the morning (6am) considering i had had about 2.5 hours of sleep! We had gone out last night for one final hoorah, at the cross club and put julia and ellen on a tram, which took a while as they only come about every 40 minutes. I [...]