Today is my birthday. This time 8 years ago to the day, I was leaving Auckland airport with my family. We were heading to the UK to live and we had no idea what was waiting for us when we got there. As it happens, I’m making that same journey today — and I’m really [...]
Categories: New Zealand,Travel
Tagged: Travel
Through a series of unusual and interesting connections today, I’ve been offered a ride on the Goodyear Blimp on Monday. This Monday coming. I’m really incredibly excited about that. Can’t wait. There’s just one hitch though – it’s taking off from a field in Essex, and it’s nowhere near anything remotely resembling public transportation. In [...]
Categories: Travel
Tagged: blimp, favour, opportunity, Travel
I was on the way back from the conference in London today, when the announcement came that the train was being diverted. If we wanted to carry on to Birmingham New St, we could stay on, and have an extra 90 minute journey that took us through Stafford, or we could get off at Nuneaton, [...]
Categories: Travel
Photo by Infodad So, that’s it then. The end of 2009. Looking back over the notes, this was a pretty good year, and since I’ve blogged a fair bit of it (though with some significant gaps – must watch that in 2010), I thought I’d do a quick wrap-up of some of the highlights. But [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Business,Family,New Zealand,Technology,Travel,Whisky
