AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 8 Feb 2025 | Views [196]
After struggling with this old platform out of nostalgia and symmetry, I've decided that it's just too old, broken and frustrating. It appears to be running an old version of Cloudflare that causes it to fail for increasingly random reasons - eg ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 14 Jan 2025 | Views [226]
Helsinki II - Heavenfloati
Day 1 = Sun 12 Jan
Train
Possible snowplough at 3:30am
Woken up in Tampere
Packed up and off at Helsinki
2 Cabs to accom
Accom
2 level penthouse in Docklands-ish part of town
Emma succeeds ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 14 Jan 2025 | Views [193]
Apukka Resort
Day 0 = Thu 9 Jan
Arrived at Apukka
Emma checked in
Kid on phone didn't notice his suitcase was making the automatic door open and close for half an hour
Dropped our luggage and picked up out outer clothes
... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 14 Jan 2025 | Views [188]
Day 0 = Sun 5 Jan
Flight (Finnair)
Gorgeous view of Finland from above (daytime flight)
Snow-covered-ice-covered-lakes
Forests in between
Granite boulder fields
Listened to Sibelius 2nd Symphony and blissed out
Travel ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 14 Jan 2025 | Views [200]
Helsinki 1
Day 0 = Thu 2 Jan
Helsinki
Russian capital of Finland, moved closer to Russia than the old Swedish capital of Tuurku
Not the introduction to the second act of a regrettably broad pre-War production of Dante's Inferno by ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 3 Jan 2025 | Views [259]
More notes only, though this one loaded with less swearing at least.
Day 0 = Sun 29 Dec
Train to Stockholm
Got to Stockholm Centralen
Tiny old slow lifts that took 2 people at a time
Long distance train station that doesn't ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 1 Jan 2025 | Views [213]
More notes only. This blog is really glithcy about some content, so I've had to delete some sections to get it to save without it crashing to an error page. Seriously, the word "names" triggered it.
Day 1 = Thu 19 Dec
Last Scandic ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 1 Jan 2025 | Views [191]
I'm finding I only have time to make quick notes at the end of each day, and I doubt I'll have time to write them up nicely until I get back. So I figured I'd throw the raw notes up here for anyone interested knowing what we're up to in something ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 25 Dec 2024 | Views [219]
[Still catching up on the journal from our basement apartment in Örebro]
Day 0 = Thu 12 Dec
After we'd found our accommodation, I was sent off to get supplies. There was a Danish supermarket near our place called "Netto", and so I headed ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Monday, 23 Dec 2024 | Views [243]
OK, I'm doing a bit of catching up now on this blog, so hopefully it'll turn into tight stream-of-conciousness rather than the bloat-by-bloat I churn out when I have too much time. [Update: Nope, sorry it's still kinda waffly.]
First leg - Brisbane ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 19 Dec 2024 | Views [214]
We haven't been OS since 2008, and haven't been on a plane since 2018 [apart from Emma taking a few domestic work trips because apparently that's still a thing in the modern world of east teleconferencing]. In fact, I worked out that, apart from ... Read more >
Tags: jonathan turley
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 15 Dec 2024 | Views [207]
♫ Ya live sixteen years, and whaddaya get? ♫ Answer: You get to go back to Sweden! So, to get you up to speed since the last post, we've got married, had a couple of kids, and planned a return trip to Sweden. Unfortunately, that trip was ... Read more >
Tags: brian hood
SWEDEN | Friday, 26 Dec 2008 | Views [1066]
Executive Summary After our Arctic trip (see previous post), we finished off our stay in Sweden with Xmas at Annika and Mattias’ place, seeing how the Swedes do it and catching up with the family. After that we packed up our year and ... Read more >
SWEDEN | Sunday, 21 Dec 2008 | Views [1162]
Time to finish off the paperwork for these blogs. Unfortunately this is having to be written after I have returned to Australia, and so a lot of other things are happening, and have happened, to distract me from this blog. So we’ll see how we go.... Read more >
SWEDEN | Monday, 15 Dec 2008 | Views [1494]
Executive Summary This blog covers the 4 weeks or so between our last trip to the UK and our trip up to the Arctic. It covers the second half of November and the first half of December. During this time Emma worked on her second mini-sabbatical, ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 12 Nov 2008 | Views [794]
This trip to the UK was primarily to attend the wedding of Sarah (Emma's coworker) and Simon. Both of them are from England but livving in Australia. The wedding was just outside of Norwich in East Anglia (that round bump on England's east coast above ... Read more >
SWEDEN | Monday, 3 Nov 2008 | Views [1337]
Executive Summary OK, I think I’ll try and do Executive Summaries for all the Blogs from now on. This blog covers the 5 weeks in (mostly) October between our first big trip to the UK and the second smaller trip to the UK . Emma worked ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 30 Sep 2008 | Views [2580]
For these 3 weeks our plan was to rent a car and drive in a clockwise direction around the UK and Ireland, starting and finishing in London. Given the one night stand nature of this trip, I think I'll have a go at a straight diary style. UPDATE:... Read more >
SWEDEN | Wednesday, 27 Aug 2008 | Views [2898]
Once we were safely back in Rockhammar after the Switzerland trip, we got to have a go at the age old Swedish late summer delight of walking in the forest and picking mushrooms and berries, and we didn't let a bit of damp weather stop us. Since many ... Read more >
SWITZERLAND | Thursday, 7 Aug 2008 | Views [2614]
After getting back from Herräng on Saturday 19 July (no thanks to Swedish public transport), we had just a couple of days to wash and get ready for our trip to Switzerland . On the following Tuesday we hopped on the train for our detour ... Read more >
1 2 Next >
