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a wayfaring engineer: July 2008
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A rambling collage of photos and memories of my travels. Tuesday, 29 July 2008. Who's a lucky boy? Ja ha That'd be me. I recently had a visitor drop in for a couple of weeks. My girlfriend, Belle, visited me in Göteborg. It was time to share my knowledge of Swedish customs (lunch at 11:30am), language (tjena! And food (inlagd sill). Of course it was a lot of fun showing off the city I'd been living in for the past four months, so far away from her and Melbourne. Although the weather isn't always this coo...
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a wayfaring engineer: summer parties
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A rambling collage of photos and memories of my travels. Monday, 25 August 2008. And for those readers who have no idea what a whole new kettle of fish is. It's an Australian expression meaning it's a different scenario. Where does it come from? I don't know, and don't care. Just accept and continue. Now what can I do you for? Buggered if I know. Usually it's just a lot of booze and loud music. What would you do to make a party seem like an Aussie party to mixed group of Europeans? Have a footy on hand.
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a wayfaring engineer: May 2007
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A rambling collage of photos and memories of my travels. Friday, 11 May 2007. Despite not being overseas, I emulated an overseas trip this week by eating at not one, not two, but three Spanish restaurants. It turned out I was staying in the "Spanish Quarter" of Sydney. All three of these restaurants were within 50 metres of my hotel! If I was staying longer, I believe there were more just around the corner too. Monday night: Don Quixote. A huge meal! It was really nice. I had to consume two : ). Hence th...
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a wayfaring engineer: November 2007
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A rambling collage of photos and memories of my travels. Monday, 19 November 2007. Here's a wrap up of my visit to Phnom Penh. It's a small city - around 1 million people. There aren't any tall buildings, I'd say the tallest is around 6 stories. The riverfront area is well presented with plenty of restaurants to choose from. I highly recommend the Foreign Correspondent's Club. Here's a view from where I was working (4 stories up, south end of town). Thursday, 15 November 2007. As the lake dries up and dr...
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a wayfaring engineer: stockholm revisited
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A rambling collage of photos and memories of my travels. Tuesday, 19 August 2008. On her last weekend in Sweden, I took Belle to glamorous Stockholm. It was a scorcher of a weekend. No rain in sight - and this time, we were wondering where the air conditioners were. Since I'd been to Stockholm before, this trip involved a mixture of what I thought the best sights were when I visited last time. Plus some I missed out on, plus some Belle thought sounded good. Stockholm is deserted on Sunday mornings. A...
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a wayfaring engineer: April 2009
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A rambling collage of photos and memories of my travels. Thursday, 23 April 2009. Hanoi, take #2. Wow, it's been a while since writing about my travels. When I came back from Europe I rushed back into life back in Melbourne. Alas, I haven't made time even to review the photos from the last two weeks of September. My resolution today is to get around to it - I'm it would only take an hour or so each night. I hope! So why now the resumption in writing? We wandered out towards Hồ Chí Minh's mausoleum to see...
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a wayfaring engineer: soaking in oslo
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A rambling collage of photos and memories of my travels. Monday, 11 August 2008. Summer time is a time for most Scandinavians to take a vacation. Most. but not all. Construction workers kick into overdrive over summer, building new roads, tram tracks, and unfortunately for us, performing train track maintenance on the route from Göteborg to Oslo. After an increasingly confused 10 to 15 minutes at Göteborg Central. Wondering where in the hell train platform 54 is? After lunch we headed out to explore Oslo...
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a wayfaring engineer: stockholm in a weekend
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A rambling collage of photos and memories of my travels. Wednesday, 16 April 2008. Stockholm in a weekend. Not last weekend, but the weekend before, I went and visited Stockholm. Sweden's largest city and capital. From my Australian perspective it's funny that the largest city is the capital - seems like it's getting everything its own way. Makes you realise Canberra is an anomaly. But we already knew that right? It shouldn't be a cause for excitement, but hell, I was anyway: the Arlanda Express. Have be...
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a wayfaring engineer: next stop: københavn
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A rambling collage of photos and memories of my travels. Tuesday, 13 May 2008. Next stop on my long weekend was Copenhagen. It was a bit gloomy when I arrived in town, and as I read the hotel guide book to the city I began to worry. It had a list of common phrases in English, with the Danish translations, such as:. Excuse me, which way is? Undskyld, hvad vej ligger? How much does this cost? Hvor meget koster den her? But that wasn't what worried. Me it was this phrase that worried me:. The Danes are mast...
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a wayfaring engineer: June 2007
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A rambling collage of photos and memories of my travels. Thursday, 14 June 2007. Luckily during the week days there has been fine weather. Warm during the day, but not quite warm enough in the morning to catch the ferry to work, still waiting to do that. By lunchtime however it's quite nice to head to Parramatta park to eat lunch. I was even able to donate blood yesterday at lunchtime. Parramatta has an impressive donation centre. Warning: if you don't like pink - do not have twin girls. When I wandered ...
