It seems people are fascinated about where I end up on my weekends, so here are some snaps from a couple of weeks ago. I ended up somewhat lost during a cycling trip as I forgot my phone so had no Google maps, I had an awful map which barely showed any detail and I […]
It seems that when you go walking in a torrential downpour, you should not use Google Maps extensively. I tried that recently and promptly destroyed my trusty Huawei IDEOS X5 phone. Out with the old and in with the new though! I now have a Samsung Galaxy S3 and decided to do a quick photo […]
Continuing my apparent obsession with photos of cemeteries, here are some snaps I took at/near a picturesque cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. I got horridly lost whilst attempting to find Princes St and somehow ended up going totally the wrong direction, up a hill and figuring I may as well make the most of it and […]
Some photos of the Edinburgh Castle I took recently during a trip to WordCamp Edinburgh in Scotland.
In case anyone wasn’t already aware, I’m somewhat obsessed with a piece of software called “WordPress”. My occupation now revolves around WordPress and I voluntarily let it suck up an inordinate amount of my time. I attended a conference called “WordCamp Edinburgh”, which is by far the biggest WordPress conference I’ve ever attended. I met […]
I made two very awesome new friends whilst in Edinburgh recently, Zozela and Magdalini from Greece. Here are some photos from our travels about Edinburgh including to the Edinburgh Castle.
And … more trips from my cycling trip to Harestua, this time the lakes are Mantjernet and Nedre Blanksjø.
Some more photos from my recent cycling trip to Harestua. This time the lake is Bjørnsjøen.
Some photos of Skjærsjøen I took during a cycling trip to Harestua recently.
Here’s a photo I took of Svartkulp, a small lake I visited by bike, not far from the Oslo city center.
Some photos snapped from the plane, en route to Tromsø with Harriet.
More photos from my trip to Ingierstrand with Ingvild and co.
Oslo has some stunningly good weather sometimes. Beautiful blue skies during the middle of winter.
My lovely friend Ingvild invited me to Ingierstrand just outside of Oslo to hang out with her and her friends for the weekend. We had a terrific time and witnessed a spectacular sunset across the fiord just after dinner.
Photos of Øyungen lake during my recent cycling trip.
I went on a cycling trip to Øyungen, a small lake near Oslo. Round trip was about 37 km, which considering my total lack of fitness and excessive flab, was no mean feat! Here’s some photos en-route to the lake, photos of the lake itself coming up soon 🙂
I always told you could buy this stuff all over the world, but I assumed that meant that a few boutique wine stores dotted around the globe would stock the occasional bottle. But I walked into the local Vinmonopolet (Norwegian for “Wine Monopoly”) and smack bang in the middle of one of the shelves was […]
Some long exposure (~5 s) photos of Tromsø city.
Harriet checking out the Arctic ocean temperature. Apparently it was a bit chilly.
The Norwegians appear to get off on statues. Not sure what’s up with that …
I went for a walk from my apartment today. I went on a 15 km tour to the edge of the city and back. I was hoping to find somewhere to skate on a lake called Maridalsvannet, but the whole place is fenced off due to it being the primary water supply for the city.
I visited Frognerparken, a popular park in Oslo which features a bunch of strange looking statues.
My lovely friend Kerry came to visit me in Oslo 🙂 We went to the local ski jump, but were met with a gloriously wonderful array of fog, fog and a little more fog.
Harriet and I, ready to embark on our great arctic adventure into the untouched wilderness of the Tromsø city center.
Dinner with Harriet and Anita. We nommed down a ridiculous amount of pizza at which point it suddenly dawned on me that I now consider a $100 bottle of wine to be cheap!
Harriet and I visited the worlds most northern brewery, Mack brewery.
The weather turned to poo in Tromsø, so Harriet and I headed to the local aquarium to entertain ourselves for the afternoon.
So, Harriet and I went to Tromsø during the winter. Tromsø is way up in the arctic circle. It apparently snows quite a lot in the arctic circle, who would’ve thought!
Continuing my habit of taking photos of cemeteries covered in snow …
Harriet Geoghegan posing in Tromsø.
I competed in the Sentrumsløpet today, a 10 km running race around the streets of Oslo. I am the fattest I have been in my life, I am the most out of shape I’ve ever been in my life, I am nursing an achilles heal injury and rather insanely decided that competing in this thing […]
We have a new member of our office. His name is Bob Skywalker.
Some photos taken in the early evening in Tromsø.
Some photos at dusk from my arctic adventure in Tromsø with Harriet.
Harriet Geoghegan and I travelled to the little city of Tromsø way up in the Arctic circle. I never thought I would travel that far north in the world, but it seems I was wrong!
So I moved to the other side of the planet, and one of the first shops I see is called “Kiwi”!!! So I walk in, expecting to see nothing but Kiwi paraphernalia, sheep, rugby crap, buzzy bees etc. and what do I find? … groceries. Groceries, groceries and a few more groceries. Why do they […]
During a skating expedition in July 2011, we stopped in at Conroy’s dam near Alexandra. There was no ice to be seen, but the lake was a beautiful crystal clear mirror.
Some nice photos I took during the winter of 2011.
What do a bunch of skating crazed idiots do when there isn’t enough ice to safely skate on? … they attempt to skate on it anyway …
Some winter-time photos taken from inside the car whilst travelling around the Maniototo region.
During a skating trip to Poolburn dam in July 2011, Dave Patchett decided there wasn’t enough ice so took a casual dip underneath it instead!!!
Some random photos that I didn’t know where else to put …
We had the biggest snow dump I’ve seen in Dunedin city during 2011. Here are snaps from my camera from that day. Justine and I went to Poppas Pizza’s before going to see some snowboarders and skiers having a lot of fun on the hills.
My new friend Liz took me to her favourite hangout “Unholy” in Oslo. Good time had by all.
The locals told me winter was over and there would be no more snow. Then I awoke to see this outside my bedroom winter … (this happened quite a few weeks ago, just took me a while to post it)
Skating trip to Frogner stadion in Oslo. The ice surface was super smooth, the temperatures were high and there was more ice than you could possibly imagine (for a rink). A complete lack of fitness and having not skated properly in around nine months left me pretty much dead at the end of my skating […]
Whilst staying in Naseby for a hockey tournament, Dave Patchett, myself and Chris Laing walked up in the snow to Hoffman’s dam. The dam was frozen, but not enough to skate on.