AUSTRALIA | Monday, 11 Jan 2010 | Photo Gallery
We went on a few camping trips in 2009 to this amazing region - exploring the exposed alpine meadows and low lying forests and rivers.
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AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 28 Mar 2009 | Views [258]

Last night, after a little concern over the smoke lingering in the forest, we soon found ourselves distracted. There were a million stars keeping us amused... too long in the city and you begin to forget that they are still there. It's so beautiful ... Read more >
Tags: camping, nsw, family
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 28 Mar 2009 | Photo Gallery
March 2009, camping in Wingello State Forest, NSW
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AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 28 Mar 2009 | Views [209]

Slightly nervous driving in. The sun, huge on the horizon, signals that there's only a few more minutes of light before the darkness envelopes us. It's not really the fading light that's jangling my nerves - setting up a tent in the dark isn't that ... Read more >
Tags: camping, nsw, family, map, lost, wingello
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 13 Nov 2007 | Photo Gallery
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NORWAY | Tuesday, 5 Jun 2007 | Views [966] | Comments [2]

Huh... who'd have thunk it? I'd find myself in Oslo presenting to a global eco-tourism conference, drawing on work experience but also travel tales near and far, to piece together an angle on a complex world. I met some great people and wonder if ... Read more >
Tags: weird and crazy, conference, responsible tourism
NORWAY | Wednesday, 23 May 2007 | Photo Gallery
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NORWAY | Monday, 14 May 2007 | Views [996] | Comments [1]

Oslo; first impressions. Green, calm and clean. It's so nice to have arrived at the Oslo airport which smelled of popcorn and looked like a stylish entrance to a sauna, all glass and wood and light. This was a contrast after the awful mayhem of ... Read more >
Tags: the great outdoors, oslo, conference
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 11 Jul 2006 | Views [915] | Comments [1]

There's not a lot of bugs in England, but I just managed to sit down on a small ant hill, alive with small black creatures, scurrying & carrying their loads across the cliff top. I was trying to plant my bum firmly behind a tussocky mound so I ... Read more >
Tags: the great outdoors, climbing, jc
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 11 Jul 2006 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 10 Jul 2006 | Views [659]
Furry woodland creatures spotted on tour: * Grey Squirrel, alive and well in the Westonbirt Arboretum * Bumblebees - lots of them, but apparently in a mysterious decline across the British Isles. You've gotta rate any animal that is anatomically ... Read more >
Tags: statistical updates
UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 10 Jul 2006 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 9 Jul 2006 | Views [748]

The Bean's first... well everything practically! she'll remember none of it, so let's make a list. * FLIGHT:: this long haul flight saw the Bean very well behaved. she slept through takeoff and landing between Singapore and London and about 10 of ... Read more >
Tags: family
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 9 Jul 2006 | Photo Gallery
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AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 25 May 2006 | Views [909] | Comments [1]

Now THIS is travelling... imagine 9 months cocooned in a dark, wet environment where sounds are muffled and sensations insulated. It's home, although altogether a foreign place and not somewhere it's possible to visit once you've left. And then ... Read more >
Tags: philosophy of travel, travel with children
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 25 May 2006 | Photo Gallery
Now THIS is travelling - from the dark, wet confines of the womb out into the Sydney sunshine. JC Bean, born March 30, 2006
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AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 24 Nov 2005 | Photo Gallery
Out and about in Sydney
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VIETNAM | Monday, 17 Oct 2005 | Photo Gallery
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THAILAND | Saturday, 12 Mar 2005 | Views [589]
We're killing time in a bakery/coffee shop next to the Siam Centre. The bus threw us out at the airport after an all-nighter from Vientiane, crossing out of Laos' borders and into Thailand at the Friendship Bridge and then endless miles of real Dual ... Read more >
Tags: Airports
LAOS | Friday, 11 Mar 2005 | Views [1063]

I'm scribbling notes in the Luang Nam Tha airport "waiting lounge"; rammed earth floor, bamboo hut and BeerLao bunting hanging abundantly from the grass roof. "Sabaidee"... and a glass of Lao green tea arrives steaming. There's ... Read more >
Tags: Weird and crazy
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