Autumn in Central Otago
Here are some photos from Central Otago in autumn the trip home after Sarah and I visited Queenstown.
Jetboating on the Shotover
Sarah and I went jetboating on the Shotover river near Queenstown.
Luging in Queenstown
Sarah and I went luging in Queenstown. It was lots of fun 🙂 Unfortunately I didn’t get any photos of myself but here are some of Sarah’s steller driving skills.
Sarah and I at the Catlins
Trip to Queenstown with Sarah
Sarah and I headed to Queenstown for the weekend. Here are some photos of us at the top of the Gondola.
McLaren Mercedes
More photos from the Formula 1 exhibit at Te Papa. This time around it’s the 2006 McLaren Mercedes.
Wellington
Some photos from my trip to Wellington. I’d travelled through/over the city a few times before, but this was the first time I’d had an opportunity to stop and look around. It’s a nice place, not somewhere I’d go as a tourist, but it definitely looks like a nice place to live.
Western Wall
During a tour of the Old City of Jerusalem, we got taken to the Western Wall (aka Wailing Wall) and the surrounding area.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
I visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. It is built on the site where Jesus Christ was supposedly buried.
Shingon Buddhist temple
During our stopover in Japan, Vicki and I headed to the Shingon Buddhist temple in Narita city. According to Wikipedia: This temple is one of the most well known in the Kant region of Japan and is only surpassed in visitors during the O-shogatsu period (lit: New year period) by the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. […]
McLean falls
Some photos from when Sarah I visited McLean falls in the Catlins.
Purakanui falls
Sarah I visited the beautiful Purakanui falls in the Catlins.
Nugget Point
Sarah and I visited Nugget Point in the Catlins.
Sarah and I at the crib
Sarah and I headed to my parents crib (holiday house) in Toko Mouth for the night, before heading south to the Catlins for some site seeing. More photos from the Catlins coming soon …
Julia’s visit
Julia Rinck who I met in Germany last year came to visit our lab for four months. I picked her up in Christchurch and on the way back we visited the Baby Blue penguin colony in Oamaru. It was quite late before they came ashore and we weren’t allowed very close, so unfortunately the photos […]
Leiden sunset
Vicki Argyle and I experienced this awesome sunset while in Leiden in the Netherlands.
Leiden
Victoria Argyle and I visited Suzanna and Cory Black in Leiden in the Netherlands.
Amsterdam
Vicki and I used Amsterdam as our base for moving around Europe. They have lots of canals … lots of canals.
How do people deal with me?
Apparently this is what people resort to when stuck in Europe with me for a whole month!
More from London
Here are some photos I forgot to add from my trip around sooty, icky London.
Cologne
After traversing the Rhine, Vicky, Vikas and I headed north to Cologne. We didn’t spend much time there, but the huge Cathedral in the middle of the city sure is an impressive site. Construction started in 1248 and didn’t finish until 1880! It was the tallest man-made structure in the world until 1884. Cologne was […]
Rhine river
Vikas took Vicki and I up the scenic Rhine river. There are Castles everywhere along the banks of the river.
Hockenheimring
Vickas took Vicki and I to the Hockenheimring in Germany, the home of the German grandprix. There were no cars racing that day, just testing. But it was nice to see (in person) the track I’ve driven around in so many video games.
German cows
Ya know how in the movies the cows in Germany have bells on them? Well apparently those crazy Germans actually do attach bells to the poor cows! I have no idea why they do this. Imagine how insane you would go if some dork attached a bell around your neck! Every time you moved you […]
Technik Museum Speyer
Vikas Aggarwal took Victoria Argyle and I to the Technik Museum Speyer in Germany. They had all sorts of different types of locomotion including trains, planes, automobiles and underwater submarines. We got strapped to the side of a Boeing 747 and taken for a flight. It was quite blustery but I managed to snap the following pic […]
More from the Black Forest
Photos in the Blackforest
When in the Black Forest, we all went photo crazy with lots of pictures to be taken of the beautiful scenery.
Images from the Black Forest
Vikas Aggarwaal took us to the Black Forest in south western Germany. The scenery made it feel like home 🙂 We took a short Gondola ride to the top of a ski field (summer season) and went on a scenic walk through the forest.
Chemistry lab in Heidelberg
Our lab got renovated recently. It doesn’t look anything like this old school chemistry lab we saw at the Heidelberg castle though!
Internal shoulder photos
Look away now if you don’t like seeing icky stuff. The following photos are of the internals of my shoulder as seen through an athroscopic probe during a Bankhardt repair performed in late November.
Japanese delicacies
Vicki and I stopped over in Japan on our way back from Europe. Here are some lovely photos of the wonderful delicacies you can enjoy whilst visiting 😀 I also tried authentic Japanese sushi and a few other generic local foods, but I won’t bore you with photos of those.
Random people pics
Here are some photos I found kicking around on my hard drive that I’d forgotten to upload to the web.
Heidelberg
After our day trip to Karlsruhe, Vicki and I met up with Vikas == (another former labmate of mine) and headed over to Heidelberg. When we arrived, we met up with my old friend Sandra and Vikas’s friend Stephanie. The city is incredibly beautiful. High up on the hilltop is the famous Heidelberg Castle which […]
Karlsruhe
After galavanting around England, Vicki Argyle and I headed off to Karlsruhe in Germany, where Frederik (my ex-labmate) picked us up from the airport and took us to the “Institut für Anorganische Chemie der Universität Karlsruhe”, which is the inorganic chemistry department of Karlsruhe university. We got to meet Frederik’s lab mates, including Julia who […]
The royal guards
And the prize for the busiest tourist attraction in London goes to … the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace. I took the photo below by standing on my tippy toes, waving my camera held high and clicking away in the vain hope that I’d get a photo of something interesting. Vicki tried the […]
Shoulder surgery
I’m having a Bankart repair done on my shoulder on Monday. Below are some photos of my shoulder. Uunfortunately you can’t see much damage as it’s the soft tissue which needs repaired. My shoulder pops out of the socket on a regular basis ever since I was body checked in a non-contact ice hockey game. […]
Yvettes wedding
Brighton sunset
I travelled to Brighton in Southern England to visit my friend Kerry Perkins. There were lots of lobster coloured people on the beach, er stones. Nice place, but I’d recommend avoiding the fish ‘n’ chips, they’re a little nasty. Below is a nice photo taken from the Brighton pier at sunset. After hanging out in […]
Squirrel
It seems they have squirrels in London! I took this photo of a very friendly one in Hyde Park. Check out my other squirrel photos too: Squirrel in the Rockies Squirrel in Calgary
London
I visited London. Lots of sooty polution and lots of people. According to wonderful people like Jenni, it is quite awesome and I just didn’t see the awesome bits apparently.
Lightning does strike twice!
Remember my post about being run over by a car? It happened again! Except this time it happened to my flatmate, and by ‘it happened again’, I mean literally. Mary was mowed down by an evil man at exactly the same corner, on exactly the same side of the street and going in exactly the […]
Manorburn dam videos with Sarah and Jane
Videos from an awesome trip to the Manorburn dam.
Palestine
I’m not going to go into the details here, but we almost got kidnapped on entering Palestine. After that, I wasn’t particularly interested in taking out my camera to take photos. Thankfully Vicki Argyle took some photos of our visit. Since things were a little stressed during our trip, we didn’t do anything beyond taking […]
People in Israel
Someone complained that I don’t post enough photos of people! The reason I don’t normally post photos of people is because I’m not very good at taking them and I often never get around to asking permission. To keep my readers happy, here are some photos from Israel containing real live human beings 🙂 This […]
Penguins on a mission
Continuing my trend of writing blog posts totally out of sync, here are some photos from a recent trip to the Otago Peninsula. I acted as tour guide for visiting student Meghan Dunn during her visit here. My previous attempts to find penguins for tourists has always failed. I usually the find the pesky little […]
Tower of David
We visited the Tower of David in the Old City of Jerusalem. The tower is named after David, the former King of Israel (from David and Goliath fame). It was built around 200 BCE, but has been successively replaced/built on over the years. The following are more parallel 3D images. To view the 3D photos, […]
Dinner in Jerusalem
When I found out I was going to Jerusalem I emailed my online friend Miriam Schwab for advice about what to do and see in the area (Miriam lives in Jerusalem). She gave us heaps of advice and invited us to join her family for a traditional Jewish dinner during the Shabatt (Jewish sabbath). Miriam […]
Vicki and Ryan’s great adventure
For those of you who aren’t aware, Vicki Agyle and I have recently returned from a whirlwind tour of Hong Kong, Israel, England, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Japan. Despite everyone’s insistence that we would be blown up the moment we reached Tel Aviv, we ‘braved’ it anyway to make our way to the ICCC38 (International […]
Mt Cargill 2008
Thanks to Dars for the photos 🙂
Dell release pedestrian safety device
Dell have released a new high tech pedestrian safety device. They are calling it the “Dell Inspiron 6000”. It features a hard outer casing and a protective LCD screen to take the brunt of any impacts pedestrians may face due to vehicular collisions. I tested out this new device this morning. I placed it in […]