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The Red Centre, and The Hatching of a Plan

For our first proper holiday since we started working in Oz, we flew to Alice Springs and went on a road trip to Ayers Rock (Uluru to the politically correct) and Kings Canyon. Continue reading

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Lingua Australia

I’ve refreshed my anthropological skills and taken notes on the differences between English and ‘Strain Continue reading

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Rock clambering

So Jude and I have a new hobby. We’re going to the climbing gym twice a week, hoping to get good enough over the winter that we can go climbing in the Blue Mountains when Spring comes Continue reading

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SYDNEY!

We’re here! OK, so we’ve really been here for a month already, but we’ve been busy attending weddings, house hunting and coding. Well I was coding, Jude was being sociable and stuff. Continue reading

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Goodbye Africa; Australia, here we come!

So we’re sitting in a tacky airport bar in Johannesburg, drinking our last Windhoek Bier and thinking about the 6 months of travel that ends today. Continue reading

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A tale of two videos

These two videos are about as different from each other as two travel videos can be. Continue reading

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A not so stormy river

Splashing around at the eastern end of the garden route. Continue reading

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The Winelands

Good wine in Tanzania is about as common as chastity in Essex so we’ve been looking forward to the South African winelands for some time. They did not disappoint. Continue reading

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Assorted mates of Cape Town

Meeting up with the Lunnages and another Madeleine. Continue reading

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Sumption-o-rama

In which we were expecting to have the pleasure of hosting my mother and sister, only to observe all the planets align in a exhibition of Sumptionhood unmatched in living memory (or in 8 months in any case) Continue reading

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