• Fast lane to tears..

    Fast lane to tears..

    When I got back from travelling, one of my most immediate goals was to buy a new bike. But not an average bike and certainly not a 125cc. I dreamed of my future bike while riding through a sand storm on the way to Lima in Peru (the bike had slowed to walking pace, and…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • What happens when a blog gets old?

    What happens when a blog gets old?

    As this blog is approaching its thirteenth birthday , I thought that it was about time that I purged some of the fluffy, ephemeral posts that really don’t need to travel with me any longer. The problem with much online media is that a post or comment, that possibly took ten seconds to write, may…

  • Digital Humanities Australasia Conference, Hobart 20-23 JUNE 2016

    Digital Humanities Australasia Conference, Hobart 20-23 JUNE 2016

    Registrations are now open for Digital Humanities Australasia, Hobart, 20-23 June 2016