Archive: 2010
73 articles published during 2010.
Southern Cross
Sir Kingsford Smith memorial display at the Brisbane Airport, lots of information and very interesting to see his plane....
Teched 2009
Some of the photos of the hotel we stayed at for Teched 2009, really great view of the beach. Lot of new development going on around Broad Beach....
Another day in the Shed
Day spent starting construction of the bench, main section almost finished, now trying to decide what to cover the top with....
Discount Travel Insurance
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Another day in the Shed – Part 2
Well after some more work the benches are now in and the back boards are up an ready for hanging tools, old light from fish tank has found a new place to live as is now working without blowing the tri...
Day in the Park
Well a lovely sunny Sunday in Melbourne demands a drive in the sun, so it top down, sunnies on and off to the park for a drive. Albert park was looking nice with lots of people out enjoying the sunny...
Pac Boy Thermal Mug
Well it has arrived, my Pac Boy thermal mug from Thinkgeek. All you need to do is add hot water and the mug comes to life....
Gibbi
Took this great shot of Gibbi, my South American orange spotted Gibbicep. He is about 30 cm long and is a complete vegetarian, loves a piece of cooked zucchini....
What do you get when you cross a jeep with a roo – No Winners
This morning on my way home from Qld at 1.30 am, half way between Forbes and West Wylong the unthinkable happened. Yes the above question was tested when an adult grey kangaroo jumped from the side of...
Commodore SV6 review
In order to get home, I had to hire a car from Wagga Wagga, the car i got was a new 2010 Commodore SV6 sedan. So i thought i would give a quick review....
Trip Day 01 – 03-09-2010
Well here we are feeling pretty good and off for a walk, first thing to do was to take a closer look at Marble Arch. The iron work in the main gate was very impressive, double decker tour busses are e...
Trip Day is here
Well today is Thursday an it is time to head to the airport and start my holiday. I had no problems dropping the hire car of at the airport, and then it was off to book in to my Melbourne flight to Sy...
Trip Day 2
Well another beautiful day in London. So another day for a walk. Today i trekked from the hotel through Hyde Park , down the memorial walk to Buckingham Palace. Had a lovely lunch sitting on the steps...
Trip Day 3
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay3?authkey=Gv1sRgCPjm1baywI-QQQ)...
Trip Day 4 – London Eye
Well today sees another nice start to the day although rain is forecast for this afternoon, and the underground is about to be closed down with a drivers strike for 24 hours. So it is out early to tak...
Day 5 – British Museum
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay5BritishMuseum?authkey=Gv1sRgCO3p3uWSxPCTpAE)...
Day 6 – Paddington Station
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay6PaddingtonStation?authkey=Gv1sRgCODs67bN9N2Leg)...
Day 7 – Cambridge
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay7Cambridge?authkey=Gv1sRgCPTVk4LMkerKFw)...
Day 8 – Ely
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay8Ely?authkey=Gv1sRgCKz23PSr7MX0wAE)...
Day 9 – Cowlinge
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay9Cowlinge?authkey=Gv1sRgCIayksqix8moeg)...
Day 9 – Wickhambrook
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay9Wickhambrook?authkey=Gv1sRgCPKYlICHo5radw)...
Day 10 – Off to York
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay10?authkey=Gv1sRgCKbVw8-f7unlhAE)...
Day 11 – Walled city of York
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay11York?authkey=Gv1sRgCOux9pv8-bDWXg)...
Day 12 – Alnwick
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay12Alnwick?authkey=Gv1sRgCJ_1hJeC85r6nwE)...
Day 13 – Scotland here I come
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay13RoadToEdinburgh?authkey=Gv1sRgCKaZzv2ayOWzEQ)...
Day 14 – Edinburgh
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay14Edinburgh?authkey=Gv1sRgCIG8gIrK7M20oQE)...
Day 15 – Road to Aberdeen
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay15RoadToAberdeen?authkey=Gv1sRgCJDyrpu50bmWzwE)...
Day 16 – Aberdeen
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay16Aberdeen?authkey=Gv1sRgCOXJ2JSd5KyBmQE)...
Day 17 – Road to Inverness
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay17RoadToInverness?authkey=Gv1sRgCOLHxqj53KGcOw)...
Day 18 – Inverness
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay18Inverness?authkey=Gv1sRgCIXznITl9YKU4wE)...
Day 19 – Road to Fort Augustus
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay19RoadToFortAugustus?authkey=Gv1sRgCNv23vOYjNSBJ...
Day 20 – Oban
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay20Oban?authkey=Gv1sRgCL-Gz_rZ8faWDQ)...
Day 21 – Onwards to Islay
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay21Islay02?authkey=Gv1sRgCKj32u2v5bjBNQ)...
Day 22 – Islay 2
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay22Islay?authkey=Gv1sRgCPz8lMLs0KWKdg)...
Day 23 – Islay 3
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay23Islay?authkey=Gv1sRgCPKNxtOwkv2SnAE)...
Day 24 – Road to Stirling
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay24RoadToStirling?authkey=Gv1sRgCMTDguSJlLSPdQ)...
Day 25 – Stirling Castle
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay25Stirling?authkey=Gv1sRgCPeihIyivpSPcg)...
Day 26 – The Lake District
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay26?authkey=Gv1sRgCK-_lveswd3CJw)...
Day 27 – Wales here we come
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay27?authkey=Gv1sRgCLijr4z4ovDxbQ)...
Day 28 – Drive in the countryside
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay28Snowdonia?authkey=Gv1sRgCI7j5MuN2pCrag)...
Trip Day 29 – Tenby
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay29Tenby?authkey=Gv1sRgCNLDgsq2h_KkOQ)...
Trip Day 30 – Cardiff – Bristol
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay30CardiffBristol?authkey=Gv1sRgCKK58uKSu7OMqQE)...
Trip Day 31 – Bath Buskers
Below is a video of some buskers i came across in the bath mall, they are playing hang’s there flyer was portraying them as ancient instruments but a little bit of investigation reveals they they were...
Trip Day 31 – Bath
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay31Bath?authkey=Gv1sRgCNOIt4GCyfbU5wE)...
Trip Day 32 – Stonehenge
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay32Stonehenge?authkey=Gv1sRgCNPnmaqBsLz7KQ)...
Trip Day 33 – Duxford
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay33Duxford?authkey=Gv1sRgCPOw6bva97iu1wE)...
Trip Day 34 – Road to Brussels
Well no photos for today, after returning my rental car at the airport, having done a full tour as there are no signs to tell you where the rental cars are, it is off to the terminal to do a reverse r...
Trip Day 35 – Brussels
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay34Brussels?authkey=Gv1sRgCO_u353RpYCICA)...
Trip Day 36 – Gent
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay35Gent?authkey=Gv1sRgCM6FirKu8ZSTTg)...
Trip Day 37 – Ypres
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay36Ypres?authkey=Gv1sRgCO_oo9eQ_fySBA)...
Trip Day 38 – Sunday in Brussels
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay37?authkey=Gv1sRgCOjN5I7dpvW1EQ)...
Trip Day 39 – Brugge
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay38Brugge?authkey=Gv1sRgCOid-sOBn4O33wE)...
Trip Day 39 – Antwerp
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay39Antwerp?authkey=Gv1sRgCIOA-LHeqYm0mwE)...
Trip Day 40 – Amsterdam
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay40Amsterdam?authkey=Gv1sRgCI3U6I7V__DQCg)...
Trip Day 41 – Laundry day
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay41?authkey=Gv1sRgCJG9ldv81_P6Nw)...
Trip Day 42
It is raining heavily in Brussels tonight, as I look out onto the little square located in front of my hotel from the restaurant, the market stalls from this afternoon have gone and are replaced with...
Trip Day 43 – EU and Autoworld
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay43EU?authkey=Gv1sRgCM7j0M_fybmjzwE)...
Trip Day 44 – Last day in Brussels or is It?
[](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_EWdgQAYNS3E/TLxvo7gvlJI/AAAAAAAACyM/rUb7XuvmW...
Trip Day 45 – Train Strike in Belgium
Well I wake to find a cold but fine day and after checking out of my hotel i head to the train station to catch my train to Luxembourg, arriving at the station I am stopped in my tracks with it closed...
Trip Day 46 – Luxembourg
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay46Luxembourg?authkey=Gv1sRgCJSD9fjSsOLB4QE)...
Trip Day 47 – Paris
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay47Paris?authkey=Gv1sRgCIPG_vayodGISQ)...
Trip Day 48 – Eiffel Tower
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay48EiffelTower?authkey=Gv1sRgCIDw1dumg6DYgQE)...
Trip Day 49 – Notre Dame
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay49NotreDame?authkey=Gv1sRgCODZtZHfybWS1gE)...
Trip Day 50
Well today is my first wet day in Paris, I had planed to go to Pere Lachaise cemetery today but while making my way to the metro my umbrella started to disintegrate, and after finding that it would be...
Trip Day 51 – Pere Lachaise Cemetery
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay51?authkey=Gv1sRgCIy-2PXfm6-A9gE)...
Trip Day 52 – Museum de Louvre
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay52Louvre?authkey=Gv1sRgCJLD1p2Z17uXTA)...
Trip Day 53 – Museum de Orsay
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay53?authkey=Gv1sRgCO-Zj_ScxNuAjAE)...
Trip Day 54 – Notre Dame
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay54?authkey=Gv1sRgCK-N7MTpiJGSXQ)...
Trip Day 55 – Monet’s Lillies
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay55?authkey=Gv1sRgCP21uKro683upAE)...
Trip Day 56 – E.H Ely – Lest we Forget
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay56?authkey=Gv1sRgCLDc5YzalKvITg)...
Trip Day 57 – Louvre 2
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay57?authkey=Gv1sRgCOfKu6e1_9Tuew)...
Trip Day 58 – Last day in Paris
[](http://picasaweb.google.com/102975624130617421394/TripDay58?authkey=Gv1sRgCKzMzejazMnUEw)...
Trip Day 60 – Home again
[](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_EWdgQAYNS3E/TNUiJkptCGI/AAAAAAAAD5k/pDxv8UXN5...