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Florida 2025
I can hardly believe it’s been 15y since I did a post on this. I guess our biennial trips through to 2018 were similar enough to not really justify full reports. Though 2014 was quite different as $son0 and I did our PADI Open Water certification, which was a major distraction from the parks. Then […]
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Tags: Acquatica, air boat, all day dining, Boggy Creek, Busch Gardens, Cake Bake, car, disney, Emerald Island, eSIM, Florida, food, GigSky, MCO, MPC, Norse, Orlando, rental, seaworld, shooting, tolls, villa
Skiing in Austria (again)
Since returning to the slopes a decade ago I’ve been skiing with my daughter, but she couldn’t join me this year, as her industrial placement doesn’t offer enough leave. After various conversations with friends ran dry I eventually reconciled that if I was going to ski this season, it would be on my own. Inghams […]
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Tags: Hotel Briem, Inghams, Innsbruck, KitzSki, skiing, Skiwelt, Westendorf
October 2024
Pupdate Autumn is definitely here, and it’s been wet enough that the boys have needed their coats some days. The good news at the start of the month is that Milo’s treatment is working, and he’s back in remission :) Travel The end of the month has been quite busy for travel. NYC One of […]
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Tags: AMT, apple, Bath, eSIM, Intel, iPad, ipad-mini, ISM, lenovo, M920q, Mini 7, NY, NYC, OpenWRT, pupdate, Rathfinny, solar, travel, vineyard, watch, wine, winery
June 2024
Pupdate The weather for June has been… variable, with some glorious days, but also some torrential downpours. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the boys muddier than they were after this particular walk in the woods. EMFcamp cont. Last month’s post came midway through EMFcamp, so there was more fun to be had. Saturday was […]
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Tags: Audible, audiobooks, Berlin, charger, EMFcamp, Patrick Alley, Politics on the Edge, pupdate, railcard, Rory Stewart, solar, Terrible Humans, travel, USB-C
After last year’s trip to The Three Valleys we decided on trying somewhere new again, and Espace Killy (the area that encompasses Val d’Isere and Tignes) came out of the sorting hat. Inghams again Having had a good experience with Inghams last year they were the first place I looked, and whilst I checked out […]
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Tags: Chambery, Espace Killy, Inghams, Le Savoie, Ski Tracks, skiing, skis, Tignes, Val d'Isere
New York – Oct 2023
I joined a couple of my colleagues at the ONUG Fall 2023 event so that we could talk to people about the Networking 2.0 stuff we’re building at Atsign. For the trip to New York I was pleased to find that I could get there and back from Gatwick (and at a reasonable price). Travel […]
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Tags: Aerolite, bags, carry on, jetBlue, Norse, personal item, Sonder, Trtl
Previously: Part 2 – Ipoh (Banjaran Hot Springs Retreat) Getting there Rames picked us up from the Banjaran and we continued our tour of Ipoh sights whilst killing time before our flight. We’d originally planned to head for lunch, but the huge BBQ put paid to that, so we mostly just visited temples that had […]
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Tags: BBQ, cable car, craft beer, Sentosa, Singapore, sushi
Second honeymoon part 2 – Ipoh
Previously: Part 1 – KL Background Our original honeymoon was book-ended with KL and Singapore, with most of the time in the middle spent at a beach hotel in Penang. We came to love one particular restaurant on Batu Ferringhi, but also discovered that we’re not really beach vacation people. So this time we changed […]
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Tags: Banjaran, BBQ, Hot Springs, Ipoh, Jeff's Cellar, villa
Second honeymoon part 1 – KL
Background My first deployment in the Royal Navy was the first half of Global ’90, taking me from Plymouth to Hong Kong. Along the way we stopped in Lumut, Malaysia, which led to a side trip to Pangkor Island. It was paradise, so… when Rachel and I married in summer of ’98 I chose to […]
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Tags: honeymoon, KL, Kuala Lumpar, Shangri-La
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