Heading off to Hamburg tomorrow for ESSLLI. Posting will be even more sporadic than usual.
Yes! Today this very afternoon we will take flight for the land of rebetika, ouzo, tzatziki and philosophy. Expect many photos on our return (end of next week), but I doubt very much we’ll be spending much time online before then.
This isn’t my news, but my sister is kindly letting me tell it anyway. She’s got a job for six months, as the office manager at a gold mine in Mongolia.
I’ll give that a moment to let it sink in.
What’s that? Damn straight I’m going to try to visit her!
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Matt has put his photos of the Glendalough trip on Flickr, there are some beautiful shots. (And yes, those are my feet.)
So I’m back home and back online, after two full-on weeks in Dublin. There’s not much to show for it really, but below the fold you’ll find a few photos and reflections. The short version: ESSLLI was fantastic fun but not very relevant for my PhD, Dublin is a great but very expensive city, and [...]
There’s one other recent acquisition that’s so cool it gets its own separate post.
Last Friday at the Boekenmarkt Spui I bought a beautiful photo-reproduction of (large parts of) the Book of Kells. I’ve put a few amateurish photographs below the fold (they’re fairly large images), and the wikipedia page has lots of more professional ones. [...]
A couple of weeks ago I attended the TARK conference in Brussels. I didn’t have heaps of time wandering the city, but I did snap a few things I found noteworthy. The rest of the post is heavy on pics and light on commentary.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Another photo album.
In Golden Bay I stayed with my folks, on their farm. Despite this, there are no photos of sheep. We did lots of other traditional Golden Bay things though. For instance…
Beaches
Tata (and a shag)
Wharariki (walking on trees, and a seal)
Bainham
on the Abel Tasman (more shags)
Haymaking (you can see how two blokes marry in [...]
Another photo gallery.
In Wanganui I stayed with Ian and his fiancée Katie. Ian is a pilot and flying instructor, and I finally (after many years of promises, of living in different places and of foul weather when we did coincide) got to fly with him, in a wee four-seater with Katie and a friend in [...]
My camera arrived today, which gave me the final push needed to start putting my photos online. You’ll find the beginnings at http://picasaweb.google.com/tikitu; I’ll post here every now and then as I get new galleries up and running.
First up: The Golden Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Association Show (the A&P show). The annual show combines a [...]