Back in Aussie
After 10 years, I’m once again in Aussie. This time in Melbourne rather than Cairns and with my wife. Visiting friends is much more fun than going to a conference. 🙂 However, at this time of year, Cairns would have…
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News from the center of the world
After 10 years, I’m once again in Aussie. This time in Melbourne rather than Cairns and with my wife. Visiting friends is much more fun than going to a conference. 🙂 However, at this time of year, Cairns would have…
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Otherwise, why would you have something like this hanging around town? Seen in Munich, Stacchus.
The text used in the title, I came across in a small art shop on the main street in Coromandel Town over the weekend. On Friday night, we spontaneously decided to pack our sleeping bags and tent and go up…
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Sometimes gently, sometimes not so gently down the stream. How come? We went with some friends from Wellington on a 3-day canoe trip down the Whanganui river, between Whakahoro and Pipiriki. The distance covered, believe it or not, is 88km….
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Went to Kelly Tarlton’s today. And while I was waiting in queue a staff member was talking to some teenagers about this new “shark cage” adventure. I pricked up my ears and was quite intrigued and after a quick chat…
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It was time to put my new hiking boots to the test! I was quite confident, that I had walked them in, just by walking in them to work several times. For ages did we want to go and check…
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Now that was a spontaneous decision: received an invitation to my Norwegian nephew’s (= Martin) christening in Lindenberg on Wednesday, looked up some (relatively) cheap airfares online, and bought the tickets today! 🙂 Didn’t expect to go back to Europe…
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Man, what a long trip… After checking out at 11am, I had to wait till 3.20pm for my bus to pick me up and take to me to Vancouver, Intl. Airport. After a long time waiting (actually programming a wee…
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