Milan Pathak and I took a week off work and flew down to Rome. Neither of us had been there before and we really wanted to get down there. We checked into a brand new hotel opposite the train station and walked into the heart of the city. Needless to say, we both loved, Read More
Still to come… Sevilla Jerez de la Frontera Gibraltar Competa
I did a short day hike with Andy Passmore, Paul & Anna Sidebottom and Chris “Baby” Stone into the valley above the Unterer Grindelwaldgletscher. The weather wasn’t the best that day but it gave us some great views further up the valley to some of the 4000m peaks there and also back down towards, Read More
These are a bunch of photos covering random events Out in Zurich with the Candian Au Pair crowd (2001). Melinda with Curious George. A few parties at my apartment in Baden (2001). (L) Me and the two Alexes on Swiss, Read More
Here’s a collection of photos from several hikes I did over the summer of 2002 in Central Switzerland… Appenzellerland – 11-12 May For the first hike of the year we (Mike and Amy Griggs, Nick Waddsley and Mark McCarthy – all friends from work) decided to head towards the hills surrounding 2502m Saentis in, Read More
Melinda and I caught the night train down through Switzerland and Austria to Slovenia. We got off the train before it arrived in the capital Ljubljana and caught a short bus to the town of Bled, in the foothills of the Alps. It was a beautiful area and we enjoyed a couple of days, Read More
I’ve been to Venice a couple of times, and still love it. My first trip there was in the early Spring of 1999 – my friend Katie Brown was backpacking around Europe and we organized to meet up for a long weekend in Venice. I caught the overnight train down there from Zurich and, Read More
From a group email sent to family and friends after my trip: In early October I flew out of Switzerland to Dublin, and from there raced straight up to Belfast for the Aussie’s first Rugby World Cup game – versus Romania. It was great being there for the event with what must’ve been every, Read More
Well, my time has come – for now at least – to leave this land of good chocolate, cuckoo clocks, smelly cheeses, incredible mountains, filthy cigarettes, Nazi gold, ridiculous small dogs, offensive prices, and many somewhat humourless law-abiding people! Hey, but it’s not all bad!!! I couldn’t have asked for more out of the, Read More
(Yet another trip well before the era of digital cameras! I’ll have to scan in some photos sometime…) While I was interning at ABB Power Generation in Switzerland in 1998-1999, I was able to negotiate six weeks off to backpack around Europe over the summer. Here’s a summary of the trip, with extracts from, Read More