Category: travel

  • Sydney to London via ex-posite bike!

    Sydney to London via ex-posite bike!

    This is such a wonderful story, incredibly inspirational. But when do you stop? “And I just don’t think as humans we’re programmed to reach a point where we’re happy with our lot. We always want more. And so I suppose at the end of the trip I realised it hadn’t really achieved anything and how…

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  • The Stranger..

    The Stranger..

    Returning home to a semblance of normality from a journey that rattles one’s bones takes very a long time indeed. In fact, I was in a Fitzroy bar the other night and a nice young chap, who claimed to be an expert on these things, suggested that it would take two years!  It has been…

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  • The art of traveling with technology (or not)

    The art of traveling with technology (or not)

    The use of social software while traveling can either enhance travel or diminish it, depending on the meaning and frequency of the messages. It has become super-easy to send messages to friends or family from almost anywhere in the world, but this should not be similar to sending an everyday message from a cafe or…

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  • The art of traveling with technology

    The art of traveling with technology

    The availability of inexpensive, digital communication devices has aided the lonely traveler on the long and absconding road to fresh perspectives in a myriad of ways, but then again, if used unwisely, they can diminish travel and make it yet another expression of day-to-day ordinariness (so leave grumpy cat at home!) That said, travel is…

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  • Photos: Travels from Fitzroy to Fitz Roy 2015

    Photos: Travels from Fitzroy to Fitz Roy 2015

    I have placed all the photos I took during my travels in 2015 on Flickr. They are simply categorised in order of the countries that I visited but over coming months, I will add descriptions of the places they were taken and other ‘meta-data’. If you are curious about something, please do ask and I…

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  • Collect GPS Co-ordinates, not things [50/50]

    Collect GPS Co-ordinates, not things [50/50]

    The transition back into Melbournian and Australian life after a long hiatus is exhilarating. It is a time of renovation with renewed acumen, of putting new-found perspectives and confidences to the fore and weaving new paths through Modern life that all too often celebrates and rewards the regularity and predictability of well-managed lives versus the…

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