Archive for the ‘Travel General’ Category

Last week of work!

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Well we are out of the house, staying with friend's and its almost like being on holiday! The weather is glorious and we are staying at the beach which certainly helps too! Everything got packed (well 99% anyway) - the tenants are moved in and happy. My partner finished ...

The TO DO list to end all TO DO lists!

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

At the storage company included in the pile of advertising and paperwork they gave me was a magnetic “To Do” list – and boy do I need it ! The list is something like this : I think it’s a bad sign when you have sub-categories in a to do list MUST DO ...

The House is Rented!

Friday, January 19th, 2007

The house is rented ! All signed up from 19 Feb to Dec 2008. So we now know our budget! We may be back before Dec 08 but at the rent we are getting we can afford to rent somewhere reasonable ourselves if necessary. So out of the house by ...

To travel for ever

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

Travelling continuously was always my dream in my 20's - except I could never work out to fund it the - longest I managed was 7 months through Asia. Doing the figures on the property empire and it seems that we are very close to doing it. If ...

And the goals are going…

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Well the new laptop arrived - have been setting up the laptop and set that up with newest versions of openoffice (much better than micrsoft and free!) www.openoffice.org , firefox - better browser than IE www.mozilla.com and picasa from our friends at google -excellent photo management tool ...

To Do List for October

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Oops haven't posted for a while - but currently I am procrastinatiing about developing my website so here I am ! So given that it's the start of the month here is my to do list ! Stop saying yes to contract extensions at work - my success with this ...

One Web Day ?

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Apparently today is (or yesterday if you are going to be picky ) is/was One Web Day to celebrate the effect of the WWW on people's lives. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5368190.stm How has the WWW affected my life. I remember the joy of doing a work trip is 94 or 95 and knowing ...

Why I like to travel

Friday, August 25th, 2006

A rickshaw ride in Saigon around the block and to the bank who wouldn't change our traveler's checks anyways - but it was a fun ride - for about $1 each This was our latest trip together we had three weeks in Vietnam over Christmas and I had an ...

Hello World?

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Hello World ?   Ok going with this whole blog thing to see if it works any better that the whole diary thing works for me - not so far have already deleted the page inadvertently once, however moving on. In the beginning, well the 1960's anyway I was ...