Most people who haven’t spent time in the Baltics seem to think that you’d need to be bonkers to swim in the sea here. The fact is that the Baltic sea, especially in the area around my Summer base of Saaremaa, is very pleasant. Compared to swimming in the hot bath that is the Gulf [...]
Just arrived back on Saaremaa for the summer and found a few new things. Other than a nastly cold acquired most likely due to the change in temperature from 45c to 15c I see a few more supermarkets selling the same old stuff. I did find a few noteworthy products on the shelves. Here are the [...]
I’ve been meaning to get this online for many years. Thanks to my good friend Gary for use of his VHS to DVD converter I now have this rare footage of me at the 1988 BMX Freestyle World Cup on YouTube.
Didn’t need much of an excuse to travel from Thailand to Australia. Although I did manage to find one that at least made some sense. Christmas is certainly different in the summer sunshine. Must find some more words for an experience that has so far included a week in the city of Brisbane, 2 weeks residing on [...]
Happy New Year to all. Now that I’ve realised I’m on an ad-hoc world tour I thought it must be time to make sure the adventure is documented. From a vague plan to cross the desert from Dubai to Oman and back in a single day “visa run”, I now find myself in sunny Brisbane, [...]
Reporting from Koh Samui. Everyone I spoke to about Koh Samui said it was beautiful. As we had to leave UAE as part of Lyyli’s visa conditions and had the chance of a few weeks in Thailand it seemed like a good opportunity to see some of the country. With an iBooking customer offering a [...]
