So I’m in Melbourne this week and it’s been raining on and off with some high winds (just like home really :)) I was walking from the building that my course was in back to the hotel and had to walk along the banks of the Yarra river. Rain plus high tide ensured that my walk was somewhat disrupted……
While Vic and I were in Sydney a few weeks ago and on a harbour cruise one of my colleagues was wandering around taking photos. He then put them up on a server and I spotted this one of Vic.
I reckon it’s one of the most natural and beautiful shots I’ve ever seen of her…..
How cool is this? Melbourne airport’s website has a live “radar” view of all flights coming into and going out of the airport so you can see exactly how your flight that you are interested in is getting on.
Hello from Melbourne. As is usual I awoke at silly o’clock on my first day in Oz and this time decided to get out and about early to get the blood pumping. I was out of the hotel at about 6am and thought I’d take a few photo’s.
These are all handheld at very slow shutter speeds and edited (well, resized) on my work laptop so I have no idea what they really look like.
I’m sitting here on Saturday after watching the Hurricanes lose in the semi-final of the Super 14 thinking that I should really start packing. I’m off to Melbourne for a week tomorrow and have a full day planned from 09:30 until I get on my plane at about 15:00 so don’t have a lot of time to pack in the morning.
Unfortunately I still have to:
Oh well better get off my chuff. Have a good week everyone and I’ll twitter if I can 
Hello from the lounge at LAX
Sorry there hasn’t been an update while I’ve been here (I got here 14 hours late) but my week has been mucho filled with training sessions, meetings and copious amounts of drinking….
I was looking through the photos on my camera and came across this one. Max had a party a couple of weeks ago that had a pirate theme. Naturally Elliot wanted to join in
Update to follow (probably)
It’s 05:20 in the morning and I’m sitting in the lounge at Auckland airport.
Not only is this a horrible, horrible time to be awake but it’s also the same time that I should have been landing in Los Angeles on the first day of my latest trip.
“Engineering requirements” has kept the 747 on the ground for the last 12 hours and me away from a day in the US. To be fair though I’d rather have twelve hours on the ground than have an engine drop off over the Pacific ocean
In typical airline fashion the airline had booked us all into a hotel near the airport the “Grand” Chancellor. I put grand in quote marks due to the fact that it is so not. I’ve stayed there before when a flight to Hong Kong was delayed and had a shitty smoking room but this time it was even better as they ran out of rooms before I could check in! They said they could probably find us a room down the road but by this time I had decided that I would catch a cab into the city and stay where I normally do when I come to Auckland. A couple of phone calls later and I had booked a room and was on my way to somewhere I knew and trusted.
$255 and 8 hours later and I was checking out and back on my way to the airport to try again. It’s 90 minutes until we (hopefully) leave and there is still no gate number assigned……
After a lot of travelling you just have to sit back and accept that stuff like this happens. There were so many pissed off and stressed out people last night and there really is nothing you can do about it - shouting at some harassed person behind the counter will really not get you anywhere.
Mind you, if the flight goes ahead, it will be my first time upstairs in a jumbo jet! I didn’t get an upgrade last night but because a number of business class passengers moved to another US bound flight I think it freed up a number of seats on our flight - happy days
In October I had 11 flights in 31 days.
That’s an average of a flight every 2.81818182 days.
02-Oct-07 Wellington Auckland NZ0410
04-Oct-07 Auckland Wellington NZ0451
11-Oct-07 Wellington Auckland NZ0410
12-Oct-07 Auckland Wellington NZ0451
16-Oct-07 Wellington Auckland NZ0410
17-Oct-07 Auckland Wellington NZ0419
18-Oct-07 Wellington Auckland NZ0410
20-Oct-07 Auckland Tokyo Narita NZ0099
25-Oct-07 Tokyo Narita Auckland NZ0090
26-Oct-07 Auckland Wellington NZ0439
28-Oct-07 Wellington Sydney NZ0743
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