Happy new year for 2011.Recent events in Australia have taken me back to my trips out there, prompting another travelogue re-posting. This one covers some great days helping Bruce build his house on Kangaroo Island - here it is on Google Maps. I t...

This post came at the end of a very rewarding trip through the hot centre of the country. I would recommend a trip to anyone - it's a fair way to go but a truly wondrous landscape. ...there's also some stuff about cricket.

Enjoying the lengthening days of south eastern Australia in the southern spring was a glorious, laid back rural experience. I spent time on two farms: each of them suffering in the drought, one of them seemingly with greater success though as the ...

On my way back to Australia following a northern summer in Edinburgh I spent a week in Bali. This was before the bombing (though only by about three weeks, and I spent in an evening in the bar which suffered most damage) so a snapshot of life on t...

A cheeky post from Edinburgh - not so much a travelogue then, more a 'homelogue'? Either way I was clearly enjoying myself, although it's interesting to see how little the Edinburgh festival changes from one year to the next in some ways.

Tasmania was a really good part of my travels. I was very well looked after by Greg Ramsay and his family, who live in various parts of the island - you should check out Greg's expanding golf and distilling empire. You may wish to read this alongs...

This journal entry was sent from Tasmania, where I got to spend a full month. I'll post two travelogues in quick succession as they sit nicely together, though with little introduction from me in 2010 as I wrote plenty at the time!

Ah shucks: there's a drinking theme to this post as well. What was I thinking, back then in 2002 when my liver was still strong, eyes were un-bagged and hairline yet to recede? A month had passed since the last post during which time I worked the ...

Number six in this reprisal of travelogues past. The disdain for capital letters remains, as does the now inaccurate email address at the top. I'd say there's plenty more to be said about these couple of weeks, though with limited time at the keyb...

Back in March 2002 the Queen was a relatively old lady who travelled the world making some speeches and waving; eight years further on and I fear she's becoming typecast. She features in this post, as does a previous Queen and some news from the A...

Part 4 and I've spent a little time getting used to life in Australia and Adelaide, with relatively little else to say apparently. Surely that's a reflection of my general calm and relaxed state of mind at this point: having found somewhere to sta...

Part three of tonight's triumvirate - it reads as though I found my feet somewhat on this bit of the trip. The email home is certainly longer, though as I recall I had plenty of time to waste in internet cafes before starting work in Adelaide. I h...

Report two: Dubai to Singapore. What I don't say in these first couple of posts is that I stayed with my aunt in Dubai, so the move to Singapore was a step up in terms of independent travel. As it happened, Singapore was an easier place for me to ...

Long, long ago, in some lands far away, I followed a typical backpacker's itinerary around Australasia and some of the countries between there and the UK. Blogs were few and far between and I still used Hotmail: the digital landscape was sparse an...