One of the great things about travelling for the longer term is the ability to stop for a while, settle a bit, and find out more about the place you are calling home for the next section of your life. Whatever travel means to folk, to me it is being somewhere different and experiencing somewhere new. This is what I am doing now – pausing for a while in an absolutely … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2010
To Tongariro
It turns out our aforementioned decision to go arbitrarily North was approximately 100% the opposite direction to that which we needed to go to find work. Luckily however, New Zealand isn’t that big of a place, so when a job cropped up half way down the North Island it was a mere six hour road trip away in our already loving and faithful steed. Road trips are, generally, a … [Read more...]
Northward bound
Having spent some time setting up Bernie, we have now finally left Auckland. I suspect it was about time to do so. As a farewell gift, the city provided us with a drunk who attempted to clean our rear window with a loaf of bread. He staggered up to my window and explained that his sponge had gone. I explained that we were fine without his window cleaning services, which he … [Read more...]
Composition in Photography: Everything You Need To Take Better Pictures!
Composition in photography is the art of putting together a photo that is visually pleasing to the people who look at it. In today’s photography tips article I’m going to be sharing with you a number of tips to help you compose better photos. Improving your photography composition is an easy way to take better photos – just by following some simple guidelines you’ll be … [Read more...]
Auckland’s volcanoes
Auckland, I have learnt, is a city built on no less than fifty volcanoes, not all of which are dormant. This means two things. One, that I could get blown into tiny lava covered pieces of myself at any moment, and two, that there is some excellent hilly walking to be done. We set off, therefore, with the aim of conquering at least one of these volcanic cones (they aren’t … [Read more...]
Shanghai for a day
Our trip to New Zealand is a bit of a mammoth venture, going via both Shanghai and Sydney, with fairly lengthy stopovers in both. Since we were in Shanghai for 13 hours, it seemed to make sense to pop into town and take a look around. The trip from the airport into Shanghai was a bit of a revelation in terms of passenger transfers. The last time I had come through Shanghai … [Read more...]
Berlin – the rest of the story
Berlin, you will not be surprised to hear, is about more than just amazing street art. So whilst the street art was certainly a highlight of my trip, it wasn’t the whole thing. Here therefore is the tale of the rest of my time in this fascinating city. Berlin is a great city for exploring. As well as a cheap and ubiquitous public transport system, there is an excellent … [Read more...]
An alternative tour of Berlin
There is a chap, I am told, who wanders around Berlin by bicycle painting the number six everywhere he can. He has been doing this for a very long time. When questioned, at length, and the layers of slight madness are peeled back, a reason for his number painting is given. It is, apparently, to improve the working of the internet. This was just one of the facts I learnt on the … [Read more...]