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Have you ever been to Rome?
Dr G and I are off to Rome for a week in September! Well not precisely to Rome. More like a crappy campsite in commutable distance to Rome. But it's free accommodation (long story) and I've never been...
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Re-entry
I have friends that travel a lot for their work. Some are very bored and breezy about it – "another day, another airport". Then there are others who never lose their sense of wonder. They drink up new...
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Edinburgh to Heathrow flight. SHAUNA: Do you think we'll have to go through security again? GARETH: No. S: Are you sure? G: Yes. We're not in Australia trying to get into Geelong or something....
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At the Vatican
The Pope was in Edinburgh today, just a week after I was skulking around his neck of the woods. Here's Dr G looking holy. He was totally out-posed by this lassie. How must it feel to have been in the...
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One Day in L.A.
Long long ago* Dr G had to go to California for his work and I tagged along. While he was in a very dull meeting in a very dull town I nicked off to Los Angeles for a day. My colleagues were spewing...
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A weekend at the Tour de France
C’est Wiggo! “Mum mum mum! Australia won four gold medals today!” “Noooo,” said the Mothership, “Australia won one gold medal.” It was 1984 and Australia had won the 4,000 metres team pursuit at the...
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Cats and Bloggers of North Carolina
I love road trips in Britain – it’s a small island, so you’re never too far from a loo, the sea or a cup of tea. But sometimes I still pine for Australia’s endless miles of nothing, so I was chuffed to...
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Spuggies, skelfs and skives: 10 years in Scotland
Ten years ago today my sister and and I arrived in Edinburgh. My first week was spent whinging about the £1 = $2.60 exchange rate*, drooling over men in kilts on Princes Street (sadly not a regular...
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Barcelona, smoke and whisky
Last week I was in Barcelona for an Up & Running workathon with Julia. As always Gareth sniffed, “Away on your holidays again, eh?” but right now we have a big project with a short deadline. When...
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Great Underwhelming Statues of the World
They are iconic. They grace postcards and tea towels. They inspire poetry and plastic replicas. But in reality they’re just a little bit shithouse. When you get up close in person you can’t help...
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