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On a regular basis I go driving or cycling with a GPS in logging mode. This creates a nice big GPX file of where I was on a second-by-second basis.
Whilst on such travels, I often take photos. My camera timestamps these photos, but doesn’t have a built in GPS.
So, I want something that takes the [...]

I spent February and March on a mega roadtrip, driving the entire way around Australia. I had grand plans to maintain a daily travel blog recounting all my wondrous adventures on the way. A large number of factors conspired against that (the main one being a not-really-very-surprising-in-hindsight lack of electricity to power my laptop in [...]

Karen thinks that Narita might be her favourite airport. Personally, I hated it. I’ve had a few bad immigration experiences before (all in the US, natch), but my arrival in Japan was definitely the worst of my round-the-world trip. If I recall correctly (and I’m willing to accept that I may have somewaht exaggerated the [...]

Sometimes a sign is just so fantastic that, despite my inability to take photos whilst driving, I just have to stop and reverse or drive around the block again, or whatever, just to get a shot.
This one just confused me on so many levels I couldn’t ignore it. At a purely grammatical level I [...]

I need to find a way to take photographs of road signs whilst randomly driving around the countryside. Were I to have such a skill today’s entry would be a photoblog of all the great signs I saw in and around Te Puke. Instead I’ll have to photoblog without photos instead.
URLs for other people’s pictures [...]

Usually when someone makes reference to the “two nations divided by a common language” they mean the UK and US. They could, however, just as easily substitute NZ.
Dunedin is simultaneously familiar and yet strangely foreign. A significant proportion of streets, districts, parks, shops, etc are named after places in Edinburgh, which is, after all, the [...]

Those of you who chose Samoa or Tonga as my final destination in Marty’s “Where Will Tony Die?” deadpool are out of luck (for now anyway). But they were good choices and either could have been a winner.
Unfortunately for you (but not, of course, for me), in Samoa the insects don’t carry many diseases. If [...]

My tour of the Balkans came to an abrupt halt at the start of October. I had planned to spend the next couple of months working my way up the Adriatic coast through Albania, Montenegro and Croatia to Slovenia. However this plan fell apart somewhat when Socialtext appointed a new CEO and summonsed the diaspora [...]

One of the most common questions I’ve been asked about living in Macedonia was how I coped with everything being written in Cyrillic. Well, actually, more often that not. people asked me about things being written in Russian, or complained, when I wrote place names in the local language in email or IM, that they [...]

Having entered Greece in rather strange circumstances, I was a little concerned as to what might happen should I travel back to Скопје through the same border point, just in case the frustrated waving me on was under some sort of “Well, he’s only a stupid tourist and he’s unlikely to be back any time [...]

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