Highland Fling (part 2)
Leonie is up in Scotland – Glencoe – doing Bruce Percy‘s Scotland photographic workshop. As it’s very much not London, I’m tagging along, and doing some work up here while she’s off freezing her arse off learning new tricks. We headed up on the sleeper train on thursday night, arriving in Fort William at 10am, to be surrounded by snow …
Read MoreNearest Bus 1.2 is out, with Favourites
The latest release of Nearest Bus was approved by Apple a few days ago, and is now available in the AppStore. This release includes Favourites, which allows you to mark a stop as a favourite, and if you are within 2km of the stop, it will show up. Favourites are shown on the left side of the closest stop, where …
Read MoreКатастрофа Чернобыля – Visiting Chernobyl
It’s not hard, at my age, to remember Chernobyl. Even from the deep south (New Zealand), it was a major incident, with a radioactive cloud flowing over western Europe. Nothing this major has happened since – tho the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster after the Japan earthquake is a close second, tho some argue it may be worse. Leonie also has a lot …
Read MoreRiots in London Town
Stella Duffy sums it up very well here, and here (same article, on her blog and public address). My reply from PA System is below. — When we first arrived in London, we live in Brixton, and our closest bus stop was right by the Curries / Halfords which was looted. It was a strange way to start in a …
Read MoreCoffee in Antwerp
Leonie and I just had a lovely weekend in Antwerp with Di. I’ll let Leonie show you what it looked like thru her lens, but one of the best places (aside from Di’s place ) was Caffènation. (Their site is “down” for updates. The owner blogs here tho) The place was humming, and nearly full all the time. The coffee …
Read MoreDurness, Northern Scotland
Ceder the European Eagle Owl. Dunrobin Castle. He’s about the size of a large cat. Balnakeil Bay Sandwood Bay Random Tarn. All pics are off the iPhone 4. Most are 10-15 shot panoramic, processed with AutoStitch on the phone.
Read MoreWhen is underground, not underground?
Since we got to London, I’ve had a fascination with the Tube. It’s unlike anything in New Zealand: It’s a train, and it’s underground. NZ has a few trains (few being the operative word), but none of them go underground, not really. The system here really is quite amazing. It moves around 3.5m people a day – yes, nearly the …
Read MoreWaikaremoana
Not a lot of words here. 6 days in the middle of nowhere. No cell phones. No TV. No internet. This is my favorite place on the planet, bar none. Waikaremoana is a large lake in a National Park (Te Urewera National Park). It has traditionally been home to the Tūhoe, the Children of the Mist. (that link works for me, but …
Read MoreWanganui River
Leonie and I took her parents up the Wanganui River today, in a jet boat. It was rather a lot of fun. Here’s some quick photos from the trip up to the bridge to nowhere. Getting ready to go with Brent, who’s a very hard case The boat is basically a V8 engine driving a water pump AKA a Hamilton …
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