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Nov 4, 2011

Photos:

Fractured jaw

I came off my bike on the way home on Tuesday 14th February and fractured my jaw in 3 places, so spent several days in hospital to get it fixed up. Now I have my jaw strapped shut for 6 weeks so can only drink through a straw.

Feb 15, 2012

Photos: 8

Google London new level 4

The fourth floor of the office, where engineering sits, was renovated recently. We just moved back in on the 28th, which was all very exciting, so here are a few photos to share the excitement.

Nov 29, 2011

Photos: 20

Malmö

While staying in Lund we spent most of the Saturday afternoon in Malmö, and then the better part of Sunday.

Oct 15, 2011

Photos: 45

Lund

We spent two nights in Lund staying with a friend of Charlotte's. We saw Lund itself on the Saturday morning and early afternoon, then continued on to Malmö and (briefly) Copenhagen. Lund is a fairly small university city so there is not too much to see, but we went to an organ recital at the domkyrkan, had a wander around the university botanic gardens, went to the Kulturen museum of old Swedish buildings, and had a little bit of a look around the city.

Oct 15, 2011

Photos: 19

Göteborg

We spent one night in Göteborg, going to the Göteborg City Museum, Universeum science museum, Maritiman (which was awesome) and Skansen Kronan, as well as wandering around some of the city and looking for a few geocaches.

Oct 13, 2011

Photos: 37

Oslo

We spent just one night in Oslo, though tried to make the most of both days there. On the Tuesday after finding the house where we were staying with some people by Blindern University we saw some of the central city and waterfront including the domkirken, opera house and Akershus Fortress; on the Wednesday we saw Holmenkollen ski jump and the ski museum there, Vigeland skulpture park, before heading on to Ljungskile that afternoon.

Oct 11, 2011

Photos: 68

Uppsala

I stayed with Charlotte in Uppsala for 4 nights. I got there late on Friday night, spent Saturday and Monday in Stockholm, and flew to Oslo on Tuesday morning, so most of these photos are from the Sunday we spent exploring Uppsala and Gamla Uppsala (the old town where Uppsala used to be until it was moved to its present location in 1273 AD). For dinner we joined some of Charlotte's friends (other international students at Uppsala University) for home-made pizza, and I made dessert. Amusingly we had 2 Americans, 2 Germans, 2 Polish people, 2 Kiwis, and (the odd one out) one Chinese girl.

Oct 9, 2011

Photos: 40

Stockholm

I spent the better part of two days in Stockholm: Saturday 8th October with Charlotte, and then Monday 10th October by myself. Unfortunately my camera batteries did not work on the Saturday so I only took a few photos with my phone instead. On Saturday we walked around some of the city, and went on a guided tour of the Kungliga Slottet (royal palace / apartments); on Monday I went to the Vasa Museum and Skansen and walked around Södermalm a bit.

Oct 8, 2011

Photos: 41

Paris, take 2

I spent a weekend in Paris, staying with Matthew Sinclair and his parents. Unfortunately Matthew had to work all weekend on an overdue report, but I did get to see a reasonable amount of Paris by myself on the Saturday, and Matthew joined me to check out Nuit Blanche for a few hours that night after dinner. I also saw a few more things on Sunday afternoon before I had to catch my train back to London. But hopefully the photos speak for themselves, along with their captions.

Oct 1, 2011

Photos: 74

Pizza & pancake party

A few friends came around and we made all sorts of different pizzas. The plan was to make pancakes as well but most people were too full so we only made a couple.

Sep 18, 2011

Photos: 13

Sevilla

We spent two nights in Sevilla, in a hostel in the old town. It was very hot. The old town was cool though, lots of narrow crooked streets that reminded me rather of Venice, though without the canals of course and not quite as cool. Still, it was interesting.

Aug 27, 2011

Photos: 131

Picnic and Prom 50

While Teresa and Isabel were in London we went for a picnic lunch in Hyde Park, then Prom 50 at the Royal Albert Hall.

Aug 21, 2011

Photos: 7

Oxford

While Teresa was in town we decided to go to Oxford for the day to have a look around, as neither of us had been before.

Aug 20, 2011

Photos: 34

Zurich

We spent just one night in Zürich, the last night of my trip. On the Saturday afternoon and night was the annual street parade, so the city was packed full of people. Sunday was a bit quieter, and Charlotte had to leave fairly early to get her train to Italy anyway so I had the afternoon to myself.

Aug 13, 2011

Photos: 27

Berne

We stopped for a few hours in Berne in the morning on the way from Interlaken to Zürich as we had to change trains there anyway. I was a bit dubious at first that we would have enough time to see anything much, but it turned out to be a lovely city with the old town right by the train station. We went on a (German) tour of the Bundeshaus, which was interesting to see but surprisingly small, and then wandered around the old town for a little while before buying lunch and some chocolate and heading on our way. I am glad we took the opportunity.

Aug 13, 2011

Photos: 18

Interlaken — Männlichen and around

On the Friday while we were in Interlaken we decided to take a day trip to see some of the mountains. We decided that going up the Jungfraujoch was really just too expensive, so instead we took a round trip up to Männlichen, via Grindelwald on the way up and Wengen and Lauterbrunnen on the way down. We took a train to Grindelwald, gondola up to Männlichen, walked around for a while, including following the track about halfway to Kleine Scheidegg, then took another gondola down to Wengen, walked down a steep path to Lauterbrunnen, then after looking around for a bit took the train back to Interlaken (well, actually Wilderswill I think). There was some beautiful scenery! It reminded me of New Zealand in some ways.

Aug 12, 2011

Photos: 43

Interlaken

We stayed in Interlaken for two nights. There is not a whole lot to see in Interlaken itself, but there are many amazing mountains nearby. My photos from our trip up Männlichen are in a separate album. Still, Interlaken was nice. It is situated in-between two lakes, Brienzersee and Thunersee. Hence the name, presumably. We hired bikes and went for a cycle around to see both lakes, and each went for a brief swim in Thunersee.

Aug 11, 2011

Photos: 17

Lucerne — Pilatus

On our second day in Lucerne we took the Silver Roundtrip up Mount Pilatus. This meant catching a train to Alpnachstad, taking the cogwheel railway up Pilatus from there (the steepest in the world, apparently!), spending a fair while walking around some of the different tracks up the top of Pilatus to a few different peaks and eating out lunch, then taking three panoramic gondolas down to Kriens via Fräkmüntegg and Krienseregg. From Kriens we could then catch a bus back to Lucerne proper. It was lovely, though like everything in Switzerland rather expensive. Unfortunately our views were rather limited by the large amount of cloud all around us by the time we got to the top, but we did manage to see some things through brief gaps in it.

Aug 10, 2011

Photos: 66

Lucerne

We stayed two nights in Lucerne, in a Korean hostel with Korean fried rice for breakfast and lots of Kimchi in the fridge. It was a bit different. The city was lovely, with a nice old town and a wonderful lake. As well as what is shown in these photos we went on a paddleboat on the lake (which was rather slow) and I later walked around some of it and went for a quick swim, which was lovely though a bit on the cool side. We also went up Pilatus one day; the photos of that are in a separate album as there are rather a few.

Aug 9, 2011

Photos: 46

St. Gallen

Our train to Luzern departed from St. Gallen, so Sarina drove us there and the three of us looked around for a bit before we had to catch the train. In particular we went into the library of the Abbey of St. Gallen, where there was an exhibition with a lot of old musical manuscripts and various texts. The room was also beautiful.

Aug 9, 2011

Photos: 11

Liechtenstein

In between Austria and Switzerland we spent just over an hour in Liechtenstein. We decided to get off the bus in Schaan and walk down to Vaduz, which turned out to be a bad idea as it was hard work with all our bags and not a very interesting route. The old town at Vaduz was interesting, but we ended up with not much time to see it before our bus left for Buchs. Anyway, we took a few photos along the way to prove we were there.

Aug 8, 2011

Photos: 13

Arbon

We stayed for a night with Charlotte's friend Sarina and her family in their farmhouse near Romanshorn. Sarina took us biking through the beautiful countryside nearby, a small old town (Arbon, I think), and down to the lake Bodensee. We went swimming briefly in the lake and for a bit longer in some nice outdoor pools on the lakeside. It was an excellent way to spend an afternoon, and followed by a lovely homecooked dinner of Raclette.

Aug 8, 2011

Photos: 9

Feldkirch

We did not spend much time in Feldkirch, arriving there on Sunday night and leaving fairly early the next morning for Romanshorn via Liechtenstein. Still, we managed to see a few interesting sights an a bit of the old town on the Sunday night. Finding anywhere to eat at that time of night on a Sunday evening in a small town was difficult though. There photos were all taken on Charlotte's camera, some by her and some by me, as I did not have mine with me while we were exploring.

Aug 7, 2011

Photos: 23

Salzburg

We got to Salzburg on Saturday afternoon and left on Sunday evening, but managed to see quite a bit in that time. There were a lot of Sound of Music-related things around; in fact our hostel had the film playing in one of the common rooms every day. We did not watch it.

Aug 6, 2011

Photos: 85

Vienna

We spent two nights in Vienna, as the start of my Austria / Switzerland holiday. I joined Charlotte there to travel together, she having come over from Poland the previous night. The city is lovely, with lots of nice parks, a few canals, and the Danube river in three parts.

Aug 4, 2011

Photos: 116

Cambridge

5 of us went up to Cambridge for the day, to see the city. We went for a bus tour, visited the King's College chapel and grounds, Peterhouse, the Fitzwilliam museum, and went punting on the river Cam. Unfortunately it rained for much of the day, but it did clear up nicely in the late afternoon.

Jul 16, 2011

Photos: 42

Paris offsite

We had a work offsite at Disneyland Paris, from Wednesday afternoon until Friday evening. Some of us went into Paris itself on the Thursday, which was much more interesting.

Jun 22, 2011

Photos: 61

Ightham Mote walk

Joanna, Matthew and I went for a walk around Ightham Mote and the surrounding area, in Kent. The weather was decent most of the day, sunny at times, and we had a picnic lunch. Joanna made pancakes! Then we took the train back to London and had dinner at Culture Grub near Waterloo, a tasty and affordable Chinese restaurant. It was a fun day, and rather more relaxed than the preceding weekend of the London Swing Festival.

May 30, 2011

Photos: 28

Pompeii

We spent a day in Pompeii Scavi. Pompeii was an ancient Roman city which was covered in ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing its inhabitants but preserving it as it stood at the time, until it was later excavated and explored. It was certainly one of the highlights of the trip for me, especially as the textbook series we used when I was learning Latin in college was based (fictionally) in Pompeii.

Apr 29, 2011

Photos: 89

Naples

We spent Thursday night in Naples, and only the Thursday afternoon and evening looking around the city as we spent all of Friday looking around Pompeii Scavi and then on trains. Our first impressions were not very good, walking from the train station to the hostel in the rain while some protest or strike or something stopped all the traffic, but we did find some nicer spots later on as the rain cleared and the sun came out, and some tasty (and cheap) pizza for lunch and dinner.

Apr 28, 2011

Photos: 79

Pisa

We took a day trip to Pisa, as it is only a short train ride from Florence. We saw the Leaning Tower, of course, but also the Duomo and Battistero di San Giovanni, various parts of the wall, churches around the city, and so on. We even biked out to the sea, though did not have time to stay long before heading back, sadly.

Apr 27, 2011

Photos: 85

Florence

We had three nights in Florence, but only spent the Tuesday walking around as we got there late on Monday night from Venice, spent most of Wednesday in Pisa, and left fairly early on Thursday for Naples. So these photos are all from our single full day exploring Florence itself.

Apr 26, 2011

Photos: 66

Venice

We spent one night in Venice, and wandered around a fair bit of the city during the two days. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take photos inside the Basilica di San Marco (as we went for a service that happened to be on for Easter Monday), nor in the museums or inside the Palazzo Ducale. You will have to imagine those parts. Other than that, enjoy the photos!

Apr 24, 2011

Photos: 83

Milan

We spent one night in Milan, so parts of two days. The first day, after arriving and checking into our hotel, we wandered around the city and saw many of the main sights. The second day, Easter Sunday, we went to a service at the Duomo, then had a quick look around a bit more of the surrounding area before heading on our way, taking the train to Venice.

Apr 23, 2011

Photos: 97

Sydney stopover

I had an 8 and a half hour stopover in Sydney on my way back to London from Wellington, so I went into the city, caught up with my friend Arya, and had a bit of a look around. These are a few photos I took there.

Apr 10, 2011

Photos: 21

Weekend in Auckland

During my trip back to NZ I spent one weekend in Auckland. I did quite a few different things, but these are just a few photos from the Sunday.

Apr 3, 2011

Photos: 10

Kota Kinabalu — Museum & heritage village

On the Thursday we wandered around Kota Kinabalu, and went to the state museum and heritage village. The museum was not particularly good, but the heritage village was interesting. They had examples of the various different styles of longhouse traditionally built by the different tribes on Borneo, which we could go inside and look around.

Mar 17, 2011

Photos: 28

Kinabalu Park

We went up to Kinabalu Park for a couple of days (1 night). We were not able to climb up the mountain proper, but there were lots of nice trails to walk below the checkpoint, and it was nice to be up high enough that the temperature was more pleasant. The park entrance and headquarters is at an altitude of about 1600 m.

Mar 15, 2011

Photos: 41

Kota Kinabalu — Islands

Shirley and I went out to two of the islands near KK, Manukan and Mamutik. It was lovely and sunny, with beautiful clear (and warm) water. Unfortunately I got really sunburnt, despite my sunscreen. I guess my back has not seen much sun in years.

Mar 14, 2011

Photos: 6

Kota Kinabalu — General and flight home

I spent 5 days in Kota Kinabalu as a stop over on the way back to New Zealand. I met up with my friend Shirley and we went out to the islands, Kinabalu Park, and around the city. This album is just general stuff around the city and my flight home; more albums will follow for other parts.

Mar 14, 2011

Photos: 40

London — New Year's Day parade

I went to the parade on New Year's Day. It went past for about 3 hours with only a few short breaks, and included (among other things) 23 different marching bands from various high schools across the USA. There were also various dignitaries and societies, floats from some of the London boroughs (although quite a few of them never showed up, despite being on the programme!), vintage cars, Minis, motorbikes, giant inflatable cartoon characters, cheerleaders, morris dancers, miniature steam engines, clowns, buses and an excellent country dance group from Texas.

Jan 2, 2011

Photos: 35

Christmas 2010

I spent the Christmas weekend up in Billesdon, with Kelvin and Caroline Woon, Caroline's parents and sister, Sarah Larsen, and a few others at times.

Dec 25, 2010

Photos: 11

Munich — Deutsches Museum

I spent about 6 hours at the Deutsches Museum in in Munich, and wished that I could have spent at least twice as long there. It is an excellent an enormous museum of science, technology and industry, with exhibits on everything from oil mining to machine tools to robots to nanotechnology, all sorts of physics, aeronautics, glass-blowing, astronomy, medical technology, musical instruments, and many other things. I only got through most of 2 of the 7 floors.

Dec 11, 2010

Photos: 15

Munich — City tour

I went on a walking tour around some of Munich's landmarks.

Dec 10, 2010

Photos: 27

Munich — Wandering

Various photos from Munich, while walking around the city on the Friday afternoon after the tour.

Dec 10, 2010

Photos: 35

Gießen

I spent a couple of nights in Gießen, catching up with a friend and having a bit of a look around. I did not see all that many things, but the Mathematikum was cool, and we went for a bit of a walk up Schiffenberg.

Dec 8, 2010

Photos: 14

Berlin — Bode Museum

On my last day in Berlin I went to the Bode Museum, and saw many many amazing statues, paintings, carvings, coins and other artifacts.

Dec 7, 2010

Photos: 18

Berlin — Christmas markets and miscellaneous wandering

On Sunday morning we had a quick look around the area near Zoologischer Garten before going on a city tour (the photos from which are in another album). After the tour we looked around the Museum Island for a bit before going into the Museum of German History (again, the photos from the museum are in a separate album), and then headed to the Christmas market at Alexanderplatz. We had dinner at a pub we had been recommended as a good place to go for typical German food. On Monday morning we went for a walk in Tiergarten before Thi left, then I wandered all around various parts of the city I had not yet visited, from Frankfurter Tor back to Zoologischer Garten via quite a few different areas.

Dec 5, 2010

Photos: 75

Berlin — Germany History Museum

On Sunday afternoon, after the city tour, we went to the German History Museum for a few hours. They had an exhibit about Hitler and the Second World War, a range of German art and displays about architecture, and a large exhibit about the history of Germany over the last millennium or so with lots of clothing, art, furniture, armour and so on.

Dec 5, 2010

Photos: 12

Berlin — City tour

On Sunday from around 11:00 am we went on a city tour around the Mitte area, visiting a number of interesting landmarks.

Dec 5, 2010

Photos: 46

Berlin — Saturday night

On Saturday evening, after checking into the hostel, we went for a walk down to the east city centre (Mitte) and took a few photos.

Dec 4, 2010

Photos: 24

Snow in London

It snowed. In London. I took a few photos on my walk to work in the morning, this being a new experience for me.

Dec 2, 2010

Photos: 13

Guildford & River Wey hike

For the third hike that our Meetup group did, we took the train out to Guildford and walked along the River Wey a bit and then around the countryside a bit. We stopped for lunch at an old church up a little hill. It was quite foggy and parts of the track were really muddy, but we did not get any more than drizzle, fortunately.

Nov 20, 2010

Photos: 7

Lord Mayor's Show and more

I and a couple of others went to watch the parade for the Lord Mayor's show. We stood across the road from the Royal Courts of Justice, where the first half of the parade ended. Afterwards we had a look around St. Paul's cathedral, watched the fireworks on the Thames (also part of the Lord Mayor's Show) and went to a couple of free jazz shows at the Southbank Centre as part of the London Jazz Festival.

Nov 13, 2010

Photos: 164

Guy Fawkes at Wimbledon Park

I went down to Wimbledon Park on Guy Fawkes night, to see the bonfires and fireworks down there.

Nov 5, 2010

Photos: 57

Ridgeway hike

I went on a hike with a Meetup group. We took the train from Euston to Tring, then walked a loop from there along the Ridgeway Path past the Invinghoe Beacon and the Bridgewater Monument. It was good fun, and the weather turned out surprisingly well too.

Oct 30, 2010

Photos: 21

Zurich for GEEK

I spent just under two days in Zurich at a conference for work. On the Monday night 6 of us went up Uetliberg to build a fire over which to cook Pörkölt. On the Tuesday I went popped out and went for a brief walk.

Oct 11, 2010

Photos: 27

Box Hill walk

I went on a gentle hike with some people from a Meetup group. It was fun.

Oct 9, 2010

Photos: 4

Silverthorne Road flood

I got home around midnight to find my street and the surrounding streets replaced by a large, dirty padding pool, so what did I do? Take photos, of course.

Oct 3, 2010

Photos: 10

Birthday walk

I did not have much to do on my birthday, but it was not raining so I went for a wander around Wandsworth and near Clapham Junction.

Sep 25, 2010

Photos: 4

Clapham car-free day

I think this was some sort of promotion for plans to redevelop the Clapham Old Town area.

Sep 19, 2010

Photos: 7

Thames Festival

I went to the Thames Festival on its second day and had a bit of a wander around.

Sep 12, 2010

Photos: 12

Notting Hill carnival

A carnival. In Notting Hill. I just went for a short time, as I had not known about it earlier, and it was awfully crowded and rowdy.

Aug 30, 2010

Photos: 10

San Francisco — Tuesday: Marin Headlands

On Tuesday I retraced my steps from Sunday afternoon as far as the Golden Gate Bridge, walked across the bridge, and then headed west through the hills of the Marin Headlands along the Coastal Trail to Rodeo Lagoon, around the lagoon and Rodeo Beach, then back via the Miwok Trail, Rodeo Valley Trail and SCA Trail until I rejoined the first part of the Coastal Trail to head back the way I had first come. There were lots of nice views, some of which I attempted to photograph. The weather was pretty decent too.

Aug 17, 2010

Photos: 24

San Francisco — Monday: Clockwise through downtown, Haight and more

On the Monday I walked east from my hostel, around Fisherman's Wharf with all the tourists, up Telegraph Hill to the Coit Tower, via Jackson Square and various plazas, down Market Street with detours to Yerba Buena Gardens, Union Square and the civic centre, up Corona Heights and Buena Vista Park, through the Haight and Japantown then finally back to the hostel. Not a bad little tour I guess.

Aug 16, 2010

Photos: 48

San Francisco — Sunday: Anticlockwise coast

On Sunday afternoon I headed anticlockwise around the coastline from my hostel, through The Presidio, stopping at Fort Point, under the Golden Gate Bridge, past Baker Beach, China Beach, Land's End, Ocean Beach, through the Golden Gate Park then back through Pacific Heights.

Aug 15, 2010

Photos: 38

San Francisco — Saturday: Russian Hill, Chinatown &c.

After checking in to the hostel where I spent my nights in San Francisco, I went for a quick explore around the nearby streets. I saw the crookedest street in the city, a bunch of steep streets, Chinatown, and a few other bits of pieces.

Aug 14, 2010

Photos: 30

Golden Gate Bridge bike ride

I and five other visiting Googlers went into San Francisco for a day, hired bikes and biked across the Golden Gate Bridge. After lunch in Sausalito we took the ferry back. It was rather foggy and rainy, and a lot colder than Mountain View, but nonetheless good to get out.

Aug 8, 2010

Photos: 32

Stanford and hills on Saturday

On the Saturday in the middle of my stay in Mountain View I biked out to the Stanford University campus to have a look around, went for a walk around a park behind the campus, then biked all the way out (up and down hills) to Palo Alto Foothills Park. I was not allowed in and did not get any photos, but I guess it filled in the day.

Aug 7, 2010

Photos: 25

Noogler Training

Google sent me to their headquarters in Mountain View, CA for two weeks of training. I took a few photos of the Google campus while I was there.

Aug 1, 2010

Photos: 37

New York with Google

I spent a week in New York for meetings and such at the Google office there. I managed to get a bit of sightseeing in while I was at it, mostly on the Saturday and Sunday before I left.

Jul 25, 2010

Photos: 147

Doctor Who prom

I went to the Doctor Who prom at the Royal Albert Hall, part of the BBC Proms series which is run every year. It featured the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and London Philharmonic Choir playing music from the show or related to the theme in some way, with various characters making appearences throughout. We queued for about 3 hours to get our promming tickets, so there are a fair few photos of that too.

Jul 24, 2010

Photos: 31

London — Flats

This album includes photos of both my first flat (in Peckham) and my second (in Battersea, or perhaps it is Wandsworth, or Vauxhall). See if you can spot where it changes from one to the other, or just look at the dates.

Jul 10, 2010

Photos: 25

London — Kew Gardens

I visited Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. It was nice, though seemed rather expensive for what it was.

Jul 3, 2010

Photos: 9

Nottingham

I went up to Nottingham for a few days. These photos cover the Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning, when I visited the Nottingham Caves, the Galleries of Justice, Sherwood Forest, Wollaton Park and the University of Nottingham. There are quite a few panoramas included, as I was playing around with Hugin.

Jun 10, 2010

Photos: 97

London — Science Museum and surrounds

I went to visit the Science Museum in London. It was very cool, and big. I only saw about half of the ground floor on this visit before it closed; I will have to visit again to see the rest. Before I went to the Science Museum I had a bit of a look around the nearby Imperial College campus, so there are also a few photos of that and of interesting buildings along the street on the way there.

Jun 2, 2010

Photos: 34

London miscellany

This album contains various photos from the past few weeks in London which do not fit into the other more specific albums. I will probably add more photos to it over time.

Jun 1, 2010

Photos: 20

London — British Museum

I went to the British Museum and had a bit of a look around. I did not get through all of it, it is a fairly big place.

Jun 1, 2010

Photos: 15

London — Natural History Museum

I went to the Natural History Museum after going to a nearby church in the morning. They had some interesting exhibits, and an enormous collection of minerals and precious stones.

May 23, 2010

Photos: 11

Brighton

I went down to Brighton for a job interview, before which I had a bit of a look around town.

May 21, 2010

Photos: 9

London — Westminster and surrounds

My second day of exploring London, on the Wednesday of my first week there. This time I started at Trafalgar Square, walked past the Horse Guards, through St. James Park, stopped outside Buckingham Palace then continued through Green Park before reaching Hyde Park. I walked around Hyde Park for a while then headed back, and had a look at Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster before heading home.

May 19, 2010

Photos: 43

First day exploring London

I spent a large part of my first full day in London wandering around part of the city, starting from the Monument Tube station near the Tower of London, crossing the Thames and wandering around the South Bank for a while, visiting the Tate Modern, and then heading back across the Thames again.

May 16, 2010

Photos: 34

Penang — Tropical fruit farm

Tropical fruit and such at the tropical fruit farm in Penang.

May 12, 2010

Photos: 22

Penang — Butterfly farm

Butterflies and other animals and plants at the butterfly farm in Penang.

May 12, 2010

Photos: 35

Penang — Kek Lok Si temple

Up at Kek Lok Si temple.

May 11, 2010

Photos: 22

Penang

General photos of Penang during my visit there (see other albums for particular sights).

May 10, 2010

Photos: 61

Kuala Lumpur — Batu Caves

Some big caves with temples in the main one, a little way out of Kuala Lumpur. Weekian, Shirley and I went to have a look.

May 9, 2010

Photos: 26

Kuala Lumpur — Cultural performance

16 people (8 male and 8 female) doing various traditional dances and such, from Malaysia's several cultures.

May 8, 2010

Photos: 19

Kuala Lumpur

General photos taken during my visit to Kuala Lumpur. See the other albums for specific places and events.

May 7, 2010

Photos: 89

Melaka

Photos taken during my visit to Melaka.

May 5, 2010

Photos: 109

Singapore — Scooter tour

Scooter tour of Singapore, organised by the hostel I was staying at.

May 4, 2010

Photos: 51

Singapore Zoo

I visitied Singapore Zoo. There were animals and plants. It was very hot and humid.

May 4, 2010

Photos: 40

Singapore — Getting there

Photos of the trip from Wellington to Singapore.

May 3, 2010

Photos: 11

Singapore

Various photos from around Singapore.

May 3, 2010

Photos: 18

Skyline Walkway 2010

Four of us went walking on a sunny Saturday in April, along the Skyline Walkway from the Karori end to Johnsonville.

Apr 9, 2010

Photos: 9

City to Sea walkway

9 set out from the fruit behind the Beehive, 2 left, one joined in Berhampore and 8 of us made it to Island Bay.

Apr 2, 2010

Photos: 30

Digger dancing dude

A dude dancing with a digger. What can I say?

Feb 28, 2010

Photos: 4

Somes Island

fibby, lorne, gringer, ja and I took the ferry out to Somes Island on a Sunday afternoon and went for a brief walkaround. There were skinks.

Feb 7, 2010

Photos: 16

Family camping 2010

I went camping with my parents and brothers for about a week. We stayed two nights each in Motutere, Ohope, Te Araroa and Tologa Bay, and went for a few walks along the way.