This was a three-week backpacking trip through three countries across the Yucatan Peninsula. Unfortunately I didn’t have a digital camera back then but I have a few scanned photos that I’ll include here. The journey began in Belize on the sleepy island of Caye Caulker popular with backpackers. It was good to have a, Read More
Here are a few photos from a vacation I took with Melinda to the Maldive Islands, a group of idyllic coral atolls off the south coast of India in the Indian Ocean, right on the equator. We flew north by Twin Otter seaplane – an adventure in itself – from Male (the capital) to, Read More
Rugby Club Zurich has a tradition to go on tour every Easter, typically to a city around Europe like Berlin, Edinburgh, London or Stockholm, but in 2002 the club decided to go big and head to Brazil. Some 35 team mates signed up for the tour and our trip was for around 2 1/2 weeks with three, Read More
(Unfortunately most of my photos were on film, but I’ll try and get more of them up here soonish.) I flew from Zurich to Hong Kong to rendezvous with Melinda who was flying in from Melbourne. We spent a few days exploring Honkers – I really enjoyed HK and Kowloon and thought the city, 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
(Note: I get a lot of shit from my Canadian friends – you know who you are! – about the lack of detail or photos on my Canada page. All my photos from the trip are on film and presently boxed up in storage in Melbourne. You’ll just have to wait until I get, Read More
Finally got around to scanning in some old photos from my years in the Australian Army: August 1994 to January 1997 – Officer Training at Monash University Regiment (including Recruit Course in December 1994) 26 January 1997 – Officer’s Commission at Graduation Parade and Ball January 1997 to late 1997 – Platoon Commander at, 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