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Biannual Pilgrimage Home
That time has come around again for the biannual pilgrimage to the homeland to visit family and friends. I was home in June & July of 2017, a winter visit which had only occurred because of a wedding. I try … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, New Zealand
Tagged A350, auckland, Boeing 777, business class, business lounges, cathay pacific, heathrow, hong kong, maunsell sea forts
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SIDE NOTE: Culture Night, Stockholm April 2017
I never managed to make a blog post regarding the first Kulturnatten (Culture Night) I visited in Stockholm in 2017, but in writing about my visit in 2019, I was prompted to make a side note of the visit in … Continue reading
Posted in Sweden
Tagged Blå hallen, Blue Hall, dance, dinner, Golden hall, gyllene salen, Nobel, Ovalen, Prince's gallery, Prinsens galleri, stadshus, stockholm, town hall
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Culture Night in Stockholm, April 2019
In April, I made a weekend trip to Stockholm to visit Patrik & Stefan and to attend what is now becoming a regular yearly event – Kulturnatten (Culture Night). Culture night in Stockholm is an evening when cultural institutions, galleries, … Continue reading
The Christmas adventure continues, London 2018
Saturday we awoke to a sunny but cold London winter morning. The plan was to walk into the City of London and find some brunch along the way. Breakfast got a bit way laid as we stumbled onto some of … Continue reading
A Little Christmas Feeling in London 2018
Good friend Patrik, come up with the idea to spend a weekend in London leading up to Christmas. A bit of quality time together. It took a bit of planning to coordinate our flights to land at Gatwick as close … Continue reading
Posted in Great Britain
Tagged blind beggar, dickensian, dim sum, east end, Hot gay time machine, jack the ripper, Krays, London, rupert street, trafalgar studios, whitechapel
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Reflections – Summer in Austria & Bavaria
To finish the posts of the summer of 2018, I thought I would leave you with some of the impressions & thoughts from the trip. There was certainly a lot of driving done in those 10 days. Nearly 3,200 km … Continue reading
Posted in Austria, Bavaria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland
Tagged acceptance, distance, friendship, history, horror, music, persecution, reflections, thoughts
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Day 10 – Homeward bound as fast as I can.
Awoke in this morning and feeling not much better. Had been a rough night. Thankfully next to the hotel was a Shell Petrol station so while I was filling up with petrol I was able to buy some more paracetamol … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Sweden
Tagged Burg, calles, cross timeber houses, denmark, flu, Gänseliesel, göttingen, Goose girl, malmö, summer 2018, summer house, University, ystad
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Day 9 – On the trail of the Grand Tour
Awoke to a lovely sunny morning and over breakfast faced the fact that in an hour I would have to say bye to my friends from NZ and head north (first sad thing of the day). The start of a … Continue reading
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