Friday morning is overcast and misty in Paris. An early morning stroll round the Tuileries finds the line outside the Louvre quite long at 9:05am. Not that I’m planning to join the queue. I want […]
Paris traffic is at its absolute worst this morning – 90 minutes from CDG airport to the 2nd arrondisement, and a 65 Euro taxi fare. I hate taking taxis, but my suitcase is too heavy […]
Surprisingly, even Hong Kong airport seems to sleep. The downside of arriving at 5am is that the free shuttle bus to the Novotel City Gate hotel doesn’t start until 6am. Hmmm. I chose this hotel […]
Today’s ‘tourist activity’ is to go whale watching off the Sydney Harbour heads. It has a dual purpose – one, to keep me busy until my late night flight to Hong Kong, and two, to […]
I’ve gotten into a bad habit in Sydney – doing the same thing each time I visit for anything other than work. This time I’ve decided to play tourist to get out of the rut. […]
Here we go… the start of Arctic 2013 – a series of blog entries documenting my travels from Melbourne to Sydney, Sydney to Paris, Paris to Oslo, an expedition to the Arctic lands of Norway, […]
