Well, we've come to the end of the Big Trip 2008 and it's been a trip of a lifetime.... lots of interesting places and new sights a...

We came back home to the worst traffic we'd seen in two months. And dull, freezing weather. And the sight of two months of mail waiting...

Well, that's it. The final leg. Home on a British Airways Boeing 747-300, altitude 38000 ft; cruising speed 538 mph, all the way to Term...

We found the History Museum of Hong Kong very interesting, mainly for the view point of history from the Chinese side, and as evidence of th...

We first mentioned freight containers in the blog when we saw the Port of Napier in New Zealand. As we already know, containerization is a f...

It's big, bright, and, yes, fairly clever - The main business district at night. The frontage in particular is lit up like a Christmas T...

It's like another planet . The contrast from Australian and New Zealand cities in terms of teeming humanity and the general hustle and ...

We leave the southern hemisphere and head back home, with a two day stopover at Hong Kong to break up the journey. Goodbye sun and summer, ...

Sydney is an interesting, lively city with lots of history. Everything that Auckland isn't, in fact. We were looking forward to our (br...

It's the start of the long journey home; the first part is to return to Sydney where we spend the Easter weekend before flying to Hong K...

While at Port Douglas, we visited the crocodile reserve . Everything crocodiles, lazing on the shore, in the lake, in the gift shop, and per...

It *must* be one of the natural wonders of the world . A vast coral reef , just under the surface of the Pacific Ocean, stretching along the...

After the sunny, dry weather in Sydney and for the journey north to Brisbane, we flew to Cairns in Northern Queensland and stayed for a few ...

So, just to recap, we arrived in Australia at Sydney, hired a car and took 10 days to slowly work our way up to Brisbane , and then a flight...

The Strangler Fig , or Ficus watkinsiana to give its proper latin name, is a strange tree of the rainforest, with an interesting method of ...