tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-127904962011-04-22T06:30:39.944+08:00Living and growing in SW London. Transplanted from SE Sweden and a Master's in Sustainability. Previously working in Natural Resource Management in Geraldton, WA. Loving bikes, bread, beaches, sustainability, spirituality, community, a bit of travel...and all the beautiful people who I am fortunate enough to be utterly interdependent with!Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333353014835036134noreply@blogger.comBlogger871100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12790496.post-1155933449837576092007-01-12T01:13:00.000+09:002006-08-23T04:44:30.150+08:00

Hello.Welcome to Flowing Mu. Thanks for visiting.The information below will help you navigate this blog, and serve as an introduction to some frameworks and concepts that I GUARANTEE you will hear more about in coming years.You can find the posts in each category using the links in the side-bar --> (Thanks to Rhys Stacker and this guy). Below are the codes that you can use to navigate the entries

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LL, Sys, BoxHow's it going? I'm at the free email thing in Singapore, so I thought I'd fill you in on our last night in Mumbai. We met up with Tim's Norweigan mate who got bitten by the rabid dog. He told us he had gone to the hospital blind drunk at 6 in the morning and got shots for rabies and tetanus, and was stoked that it only cost him 650 rupees ($20) - we informed him that this was the

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LR, Sys 'Harbinger of death in steep decline' The frequency with which news stories are tying things back to climate change is overwhelming. This one is particularly haunting given the colloquial name for the Barn Owl here in Britain. It is really sobering news about these poor birds whose numbers are in decline because of rainfall preventing them from hunting. Oh, and 75% of young who don't

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Strat, Act, UL, UR, BoxHope this finds you all well. I am well - maintaining a grounding in exercise and meditation, finding work, travelling and thinking, and uncovering and exploring more and more about myself.After initial June meetings in London with many consultancies and NGOs to scope out how I could contribute to the scene, a quick flight had me back in Sweden and on my bike. With Lisa

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UL, UR, Act, Box During a day participating in a complex simulation exercise (to try and cooperatively, sustainably manage the Florida Everglades) at the Integral Sustainability workshop, a gong was rung at random times. During the couple of minutes between gongs, everyone was invited to take the time to breathe deeply and reconnect with their highest self and spirit. Most of us were already in

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LL, UL, Fun BoxMusic is quite incredible really, in the way it can affect your state of mind and lift your spirits. I really have not made time to listen to much music for a long time. During university I was so into it: punk, local gigs, and a lot of trance and plastic techno (and even some DrumnBass and Breaks)...taking photos and writing reviews of gigs, then dancing all night.Then I stopped

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Act, Fun, Box, LRThere is always something happening in London, especially near my work at Spitalfields markets, Brick Lane, and the Old Truman Brewery. Last week there was a Future London exhibition, which was pretty inspirationaland broad in its scope for creating a sustainable London.This week is a Design Festival is occurring all over the city, but again centred at the Old Truman Brewery. I

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UL, UR, LL, LR, sysThe world is an amazing place.And I continue to be amazed at my own ability to live totally beyond my means and buzzing around it in pursuit of wisdom and connections. This week I am just outside Denver in Colorado at an Integral Sustainability workshop. The kind of place where my brother's new favourite joke meets sustainability meets Vipassana...and makes total sense. More

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Q. What did the buddhist say to the hotdog man? A. Make me one with everything.I like it too. Fun Box

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URRight now, I am:* Living in London, UK. On Wandsworth Road, Lambeth, SW8 2JU. Check it out on Google Earth if you want! And maybe scan over lovely Battersea Park, about 3km to the west.* Spending time with Gabrielle :D* Enjoying running, eating well, meditation and generally trying to stay strong, balanced and flexible* Doing an internship with Eastside Consulting, three days a week. Lovely

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UL, LR, SystemMuch respect to Jane JacobsLondon is full of life. A wonderful diveristy of cultures, shapes (animate and inanimate), grit, urban regeneration and entrepreneurial spirit. It's heart beats at a rapid pace.And, can stop beating in an instant.When in London in June, I was riding back from a great meeting, feeling good and eyes wide-open to possibilities and the vibrancy of the city

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Shirley the Surly has been stolen.Barely a week into her jaunt to London she passed away on Greenman St, Islington. Stolen while I had a wonderful dinner with a whole gang of people loosely affiliated with SoL (jeans). The thieves so keen that they removed the street sign to which she was attached. And, a nearby CCTV / security camera failed (due to it being off!) to catch the guys on tape.

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UL, LRSubtlety is big in my mind at the moment: increasing and increasing your awareness such that you can peel back the layers and penetrate the detail and wonder in the everyday. Coming to London post-Sweden, post-transformation and post-meditation, my consciousness of many subtle aspects of London life is acute. This has manifested itself in an appreciation of things that I previously

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LL, Sys, Box Whoops, I accidentally sent that other part before I had finished it..... sohere's the rest.To hire Tim's Royal Enfield (a famous British bike, now ruling the streetsin India) Ronnie got us to meet up with this strange Indian mobster whoowned the bike. We met him in his backyard, where he gave us chai and"beedis" (cigarettes, but wrapped in a leaf instead of paper) and told Tim(

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LL, Sys, BoxSalutations friends, Please consider this short play, based on a true story. START OF PLAY (It's a hot humid and hazy park, nestled between the haphazard metropolis of Kolkata and the poo-brown Hooghly River, which slides past in the background - similar to the park between Perth and the Swan River, but on a much grander scale. There's a smattering of people over the vast area, and

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LL, Sys, BoxNamaste,Conveniently, "namaste" (literally: I bow down before you) is good for both hello AND goodbye, effectively doubling my knowledge of Hindi. Inconveniently, West Bengalis speak Bengali and Sikkimese speak Nepali, so I am back stumbling around in the linguistic wilderness. I am writing from Gangtok, the capital city (pop. 30,000 = Kalgoorlie) of the state of Sikkim, which is in

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LL, Sys, BoxHello everyone,I am writing this message from Varanasi, a holy city where old Hindus come to die, be burnt, and be thrown into the Ganges. Hopefully my words will flow from the keyboard in the same way that the filthy Ganges spews it's cargo of rotting animals, rubbish, excretement, and charred Hindu bodies into the Bay of Bengal - though let's all hope that this message is more

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LL, Sys, BoxHello everyone,Tim and I are having a jolly old time over here, and there haven't been too many ugly mishaps thus far.We started off in Mumbai, where we stayed for two nights. It took us a while to figure out what was going on, though it didn't help that we were a bit drunk when we arrived - we managed to hold off drinking between Perth and Singapore, but then we succumbed to

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LL, Sys, BoxMy brother Michael travelled to India this year. I was wildly excited when I learned of his plans, as he has always shown an interest in Eastern sources of wisdom despite limited experience with them. Also, I think he is an excellent, and very funny, writer. See what you think as we join him on his Indian adventure...

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Read below for mum's humorous account of her drive across Australia, amongst other thingsHello Andrew, Darryl and Kylie,I hope you are all having a great time OS.We are going well. Mike came down with Sam(Henry) and Ajax last Wednesday night so they could have Australia Day here. I dropped Mike off in South Perth at 9.30am as he was going to his friend's house overlooking the park. (Red Dog's dad

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Here's out Oz Day Invite, don't mind the snow. We are playing the Hottest 100, recorded into off the web broadcast using the free, open sources, streaming audio recording software: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (there are lots of other similar programs - some better, but most have time limits on how long you can record for unless you pay and register) G'day cobbers,Owzitgoinmaaaate? Guess

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I've found some of the tools below to be useful for developing my self-awareness and ability to work well in groups. This was compiled after a 'Brown Bag' lunchtime workshop I ran for my peers in the sustainability Masters program. Maybe something of interest in here for you too?The Question I asked of those who came along was: 'How can a diversity of learning and thinking styles be recognized in

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See the story below for info on how corporations, universities, governments and the UN are working together to get the world online and learning. But are they sustainable? How long will they last, and what happens to the componenets afterwards - is it more rubbish that will acumulate, more electronic componenets that will degrade and contaminate the soil and water?. Perhaps they could come with

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Below is a copy of an email that I just sent to some of the people back home who are working on sustainabilty-related issues. If you want any of the attachments I mentioned, or want to be put on the list to receive some of these more 'professional'-type emails, let me know. Oh, I just realised I should have metnioned in the email below how exceptionally good my marks have been!!! Am I allowed to

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For all non-electronic communication I have a new home address. All mail has to go through my friend Geneva for the system over here:Andrew Outhwaite c / o Geneva Rae27 Konstapelsgatan371-35KarlskronaSwedenLooking forward to some scratching or typing on ex-trees to stick on my walls and remind me of my friends : )

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How sad (see below) I will treasure my Nikon FM2 camera for as long as it lasts. Which is probably a lot longer than they will sell and process film at reasonable prices, and perhaps longer than me. That thing was built to last, to take photos in freezing conditions, and do it all without the need for a battery. It also makes real 'click' and 'whir' sounds rather than some ridiculous imitation..

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There are a number of fantastic bike shops I have seen in my time, with great locations including Perth, Melbourne, Vancouver, Stockholm....and now London. What makes a good bike shop? Well, the people there have to genuinely love bikes. They often have some sort of punk, rockabilly style to them. They have to not really be making much money, being less 'successful' than they should be because

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I don't particularly like eating a lot of normal bread, but love making and eating sourdough. I had a few goes at keeping a 'starter' going and baking regulary, and in Karlskrona it is really going well. I just love the whole life-filled, creative process of baking: the kneading, the waiting, the experimentation and science...and just that you really have to feel your way through a lot of it

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A recurring thought in my mind with regards to sustainability is the role of time. We are doing things faster and faster, absolutely accelerating our way to the end of society and the biosphere as we know it. Aided by fossil fuels and interaction technology (like the web, mobile phones), even those trying to create a sustainable future are working themselves to death (the Japanese even have a

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Check out this link for pictures and a description of the crazy cow fights! These occur annually near my Swiss friend Brett's home in Switzerland. They don't have to force them to fight, it is just the annual jostling about amongst the females to see who is the boss as they head up the mountain for summer grazing.We got talking about this as Brett described the way everyone keeps cows, and pays

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I think my recollection of this week is a bit hazy now, but it was really fun times.The things I did and places I visited included:* A very hip cafe http://www.cafestring.com/ IN Swedish, so not really of much use to many of you! * A very kitsch, plastic shop www.coctail.nu * Perhaps the coolest furniture ever - check the style before you work out what it's made of! http://www.rd.se/catalog/

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A big issue on my mind over the last week has been whether or not I feel engaged. Am I engaged in the discussions and debate amongst my classmates, and peers, family and friends in other parts of the world. My long list of unanswered emails would suggest not.Over the last few years I have really shifted from someone who was always up with the news, to someone who deliberately tuned out of

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For anyone who has never worn coloured glasses, I strongly suggest you get some. Let me explain:I am currently the proud owner of a very expensive pair of 'Rudy Project' sunglasses. They have interchangeable lenses, a dark set, and an orange set. The look a bit silly, but are great for mountain biking, and I'm very grateful to my sister for donating them to me. It is well and truly autumn up here

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My sea kayak trip last weekend was the first weekend where I really didn't get any study done. I really enjoyed the break, and came back with an assignment due, no food in the cupboards, and lots of little chores undone. It was the first time I had felt like that, by 'that' I mean the way I remember always feeling at Univeristy before! Which is really significant. You see, for years I have been

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I always think the birds I see in the sky are migrating south, which may be they are. But I know for sure that the sun has headed that way...Last week the temperature really dropped in the mornings, and this was a good trigger to make sure I enjoyed the weekends before it got too cold and miserable. I ended up going sea-kayaking with Kyle, Dan and Kate to a nearby island where we camped overnight

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Hi. Below is something I wrote yesterday, and submitted as part of my course. It is only marked for completion: which proably left the door open for me to take it a bit further than if I had to guess what the markers were looking for! I read all the required and suggested readings, and a few books, and wrote a well-structured, logical draft...all about a week before this was due. Then, I felt it

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I am being way slacker than I should be with this blog, but I think that way of prioritising things has shown up in my marks - I'm doing pretty well!I felt confident about the basic ideas that have been introduced in this class, and just the last couple of weeks have had the time to go a little bit deeper. The group dynamics, and powerful personal learning experiences have all combined to mean

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So you can write me postcards, call and text me etc:Rum 86, Minervavägen 22BKarlskrona, Sweden371-41Mobile phone: +46 708 86 66 98I'll be checking the post box every day, and should be checking my email everyday too now.

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A quick run-down on what I am actually studying: Some people (actually pretty much just the one guy, at first) about 15 years ago, thought that all the debates about sustainability were getting bogged down in the details of what level of what chemical was toxic for which species...and all the associated disagreements and reductionist scientific distractions from what is humainty's most pressing

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The above title is the closest approximation in Swedish to 'Sustainability'...With our first assessments out of the way, the dynamics have started to settle down amongst the whole group . The first couple of group assignments, in particular, really felt like they tested our ability to take all the nice principles we talked about in the first few weeks (relating to supporting each others' learning

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For the better part of my time working in NRM, I decided to donate a percentage of my after tax earnings to worthy causes. Fair Share International suggested 5% is a good amount ( http://www.fairshareinternational.org/ ), whereas Peter Singer (in his One World book) suggested something more like 1% to start with.I ended up donating about 3%, and it went to:Amnesty International ( http://

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Well, this place is great: a wonderful orientation week, amazing people in my class, great riding, a nice little apartment....and a Trucking Festival on the weekend! What more could you ask for?

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I originally though I would be able to write a recipe 'For getting the best value out of a $400 AUD Scanrail pass (without resorting to cheating or lying)'. I may have to change the name of the recipe:Decide that you really, really don't want to pay for travel.Decide you want to get from Karlskrona to Copenhagen (600km west), catch a train and bus out to pick up your gear from the port, carry

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What's hot - The hardy, folksy Latvians and Estonians for maintaining a strong sense of national identity through occupation by: Vikings, christians, russia, germany, russia again, and now tourists...Good Luck to them and their culture to surviving economic globalisation, MTV and World Wide Web. - Partying in Riga. No-one asleep (though the room was clearly occupied by 20 people) in a youth

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I am really fascinated by Norwwegian settlement patterns. Everywhere we went there were people living in remote villages behind mountains, on an island...yet still clearly had power, roads (tunnels and ferries everywhere) water, and most importantly: mobile phone coverage. You quite clearly need to be a very rich country with very high taxes just to service such a small population spread over

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What a funny beast tourism is: the world's biggest industry. And, it has more than a few similarities to other big industries. Certainly the way I see some tour groups move around, I can't help but think of herds of cattle, grazing on the tidbits of local culture, nature and history. And in terms of waste, the average life of a glossy brochure must be less than 12 hours, and that millions of

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Sitting on cruise boat is like watching Baraka (if you don't know what this is, go and ask for it at your video store): these incredible, slow, high quality image drifting across your field of view while you are warm inside a box: protected from the harsh elements.After our extended period of free camping adventures, this was a dream. A daily routine of 'nanna naps' in between vegetating, swedish

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The Lofoten Islands are famous for their winter fishing grounds, dramatic scenery, and excellent opprtunties for mountain adventures...so we thought we better go!We caught the express boat from Narvik on an incredibly calm day, with not a white cap in sight as we zoomed past scnees of grey granite, green vegetation, deep blue sea, and occasional white birds and red fishing cottages.All the

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Where/when: narvik 4th Train to savonlinna. Walk around: strongman contest, markets - food and craft, opera festival in a castle, camp next to hiking trail. Our run of camping spots has been pretty good - no waking up to the sound of regular thundering freight trains, usually dry, and nowhere really illegal. That's the beauty of camping kn scandanavia: as long as you are respectful and leave no

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Where: Geiranger to SogndalEven if Karlskrona sucks, it will be great.I am really starting to feel good, brain getting back into gear, feeling healthy, interested in reading the course books I brought with me.And most importantly, I am once again starting to try and respond and not react: to think before I speak, observe my reactions before they affect what I do...

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Where: HelsinkiOh scandanavia how I love you so. Free bikes, clean streets, black metal goths, striking blonde girls, clean design, bike and pedestrian lanes wider than the roads, manicured parks and public art on every corner.And don't get me started on the rockabillies in big old cars, the hackey-sack championships next to the lake, and free 24 hour art exhibitions...The 24-hr art was an

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Upon arriving in Tartu, a university town of 100 000 people in central Latvia, both Gabrielle and I had moments of doubt about life in Karlskrona - a likely similar place. Gabrielle especially, wondered aloud: 'The parks and old town are lovely, but is it really big enough to be interesting? Big enough to provide employment?' These thoughts only served to grow the seeds of doubt sown by a random

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We've seen a lot of people fishing on our travels, usually in what I would have thought was the worst possible spot. WA recreational fishers do not know how good they have it!Places not to fish:The Bosphrous strait, which divides the European and Asian halves of Istanbul. It clearly has a high rate of tidal flushing/flow, but not enough to keep it clear of a LOT of rubbish! Everyone seemed to

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A quick go at reviving an old diary technique: started this on 1st Aug, FinlandSmells:* Grungy, mildewy toilets in turkey* Smoke and grime in the air in london* Fish markets and smoked, bbq'd, marinated fish everywhere (istanbul, riga, helsinki)* Body odour: turkish buses, finnish trains, latvian? And probably us everywhere else!!!* Wonderful, colourful, aromatic spices piled high in the egyptian

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Where: Helsinki, Kiasma This question has been with me for a while... What is art? Has someone got a good definition or explanation they can send me? Hopefully what you can provide says something about context, meaning, intent and audience...This questioning is prompted by my exposure to local art exhibitions and artists in Geraldton; my increasing interest in, and appreciation of design ; my

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No food on plane, 2am bus ride. Hostel wiht no signs adn absolutely no-one in bed at 3am!!!All the girls very dressed up. Casinos and strip clubs everywhere.Very cool old district.Very good Occupation museum 1941 - 1991 Amazing how the people and culture survived at all really...

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The Saturday morning after our arrival, Gabrielle was feeling very unwell. It was probably due to some of the food we ate in Turkey, but unfortunately she has had the same symptoms since she got back from a trip to Nepal approximately 3 years ago.I quickly ran down to the pharmacist to get something to provide her with temporary relief some temporary relief. A later visit to the doctor resulted

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Overnight bus to Goreme fun! Leave bags at cave. Barter for half a tour to Ilhara. Nice man Davut (David) who owned travel agency. Lunch at Ilhara Poo in the river, upstream of where young boy caught fish. Walk and explore many caves. Slow progress. Then on to churches. Stairs and missed festival. Free water. Strange georgians and dingo hunter.Belisiarma pension and dutch man. Dinner and nice man

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In RuinsSo we continued down the coast:- Troy: important in Homer's (and not the dude from the Simpsons!) great works (Iliad and Odyssey). Took photos for you Mike!- Ephesus: like other once-great cities, it ended up being abondened becuase it's great port silted up. Deomonstrating the 'slow' geological and geomorphological processes can have an impact if the inhabitants hang around for long

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Aaahhh yes - photo captions again. Hope you are savouring these pics coz they're the last ones you are going to get!!Photo 1 - "Wallace and Gromit style". a personal favourite of mine. We hired scooters for the afternoon and scootered through the Cappadocia region in helmets which would have passed safety standards in Australia in 1653... Yep - another exciting fairy chimney in the background.

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Here are some phtos from our trip so far. Will be sure to do a better job of posting them next time.See if you can work out which caption applies to which photo!!!! Caption A: Andrew got a tad excited with the massive mountains we had walked up in the morning, and walked down and was cruelly lured into taking out a "free" mountain bike for the afternoon. Unfortunately, the bike had no gears and

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Leaving IstanbulBefore we left Istanbul, an evening spent exploring the Egyptian Spice Markets and some of the newer, more upmarket parts of Istanbul meant we left feeling like we had done the place justice. The spices, turkish delights (flavoured wiht everything from Pistachios to rose water) and variety of mixed nuts had me drooling. Far more enjoyable than the Grand Bazaar, mainly because I

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IstanbulArrived with nothing organised and only photocopies of an old lonely Planet. I was happy to have forked out $13 for a language book though - even if it means I only learnt yes, no, vegetarian and thankyou. Travelling with Gabrielle, Ruth (Gabrielle's sister) and Mike (her fiance) should be fun...First thing was a decent meal and a water-front walk to expose ourselves to the incredible

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Woo Hoo! I can't believe I have actually left Australia for quite a long time! I was really quite sad saying final goodbyes to everyone: realising that I might not see these people for ages! But, I'm sure time will fly and all be well (if not the same) when I see them all again.Arriving the next morning in Tokyo we did the classic "no preparation" thing and called a hostel that had its pamphlet

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Well, cue the music and the scenes of monkeys bashing the earth with bones....Andrew is on-line and full of ideas.Just like Hal (who shares my birthday) my computer persona is likely to be even more creative, inspired and able to skip across an improbable range of concepts in a single bound.There'll be more thinking, experiences and adventures than you can poke a stick (or bone) at by the time

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Great Ocean RoadThe descent into Apollo Bay marked the end of the long hard days: we had pushed pretty hard through South Australia! As we then began to wind our way along the Great Ocean road we started to relax and enjoy the scenery, knowing we would have no trouble making it to Melbourne for the weekend. We timed our Great Ocean road experience well: smack in the middle of schoolies week! We

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[There is no 'Part 1' yet, as I haven't had time to write it all down!]Short cutsOne ‘memorable' event was when we paused in a small town to decide the easiest way to get to the south and east, and the main coastal road. I genuinely thought the quickest way would be to cut diagonally across, rather than take the two straight (one south and one east) roads joined by a right angle turn. Convincing

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Here are links to posts I have labelled as 'tools':

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Here are links to posts I have labelled as 'success':

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Here are links to posts I have labelled as 'process':

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Here are links to posts I have labelled as 'food':

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Here are links to posts I have labelled as 'water':

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Here are links to posts I have labelled as 'coastal and marine':

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Here are links to posts I have labelled as 'lower right':

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Here are links to posts I have labelled as 'lower left':

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Here are links to posts I have labelled as 'upper right':

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Here are links to posts I have labelled as 'upper left':

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Here are links to posts I have labelled as 'actions':

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Here are links to posts I have labelled as 'strategy':

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Here are links to posts I have labelled as 'system':

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Here are links to post that I have labelled 'Box'...of stuff that I can't / haven't sorted out.

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