AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 28 Mar 2009 | Views [204]
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 [178]
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 [918] | 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 [941] | 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 [882] | 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, jemima
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 11 Jul 2006 | Photo Gallery
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UNITED KINGDOM | Monday, 10 Jul 2006 | Views [626]
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 [723]
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 [873] | 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 [555]
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 [996]
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
LAOS | Saturday, 5 Mar 2005 | Views [1478] | Comments [2]
Relax, then laugh. Relax some more and laugh again. So goes an afternoon of tubing down the river in Vang Vieng (Laos)
At
the end of the dry season, the Nam Song river runs pretty slow –
sometimes imperceptibly drifting around long ... Read more >
Tags: laughter
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