2010 is now here: ‘The Year of the Future’, ‘The Year of Change’, ‘The Year of Progress’ (and apparently also ‘The Year of the Girl Guide’.) And for me personally it will also, at least in part, be the year for catching up on my blogs.
When we decided that we would try and meet up with our Croatian friends Iva and Maja before we left the Northern hemisphere we got in touch with some preliminary dates, and found out that Maja was not going to be in Croatia for a couple of months. She was going to be studying in [...]
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When I was planning my trip back to Australia, I had anticipated a few weeks or months in Asia to break up the journey. But after meeting our Croatian friends at Roskilde earlier in the year, it seemed like we might have another better option. I still wanted to break up the long flight from [...]
Before I left the shores of the United Kingdom for an undetermined time I wanted to see a little bit more of the place, and see as many people as I could. Sian was the same, and as much of her family was in Swansea we decided to go to Wales for a few days [...]
I moved to Edinburgh a few years ago for my first contracting position. I had become bored of the slow-paced public sector life and wanted a new challenge. I knew a lovely young lady up there and so Edinburgh seemed like a great choice, and leaving my home in Essex was extra impetus not to [...]
Roskilde seems different to other festivals I have been to. There’s no one reason why – it’s partly that the music is so truly eclectic – there are seven stages spread over the site and you can hear anything from death metal to opera on any one of them throughout the festival. It’s also got a lot to do with the people –
In 2008 just after I arrived back in the UK one of my closest friends, Michael, moved out to India. He must have got some dirt on one of his bosses – possibly some compromising photos that he may or may not have also been pictured in – and he had been promoted to oversee [...]
The Czech Republic has always been somewhere I have been drawn to. It would be easy to say it is because of the beer, or the culture, or the length of the Czech girls’ legs – but in reality it is because that is where my father was working when I was a boy, and [...]
It was with much sadness that I left the wonders, warmth and whimsy of Australia behind me and returned, prematurely I felt, back to the UK. I had made so many friends, seen so many fantastic things, and been to so many exotic places that the previous year had swept past me with the speed and force of a tornado, leaving me a little dazed and dizzy in much the same way.