Being Myself, and loving every minute!

How do you think I’m doing this?

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Ok, so most of the world knows I'm a bit of a geek. The small fact that I posses a degree in Control Systems Engineering merely confirms the theory. When it comes time for me to travel the world, I need the ultimate in nerdy gadgets. I have an iPod touch for my tunes - this also has a bunch of "Robot Chicken" episodes to keep me giggling throughout the long train journeys between cities. I cannot begin to express just how valuable an iPod is while travelling.

I bought a new Canon Ixus 90is a while back, which has give me ample "awesome shots" and enough video to build up an awesome holiday montage - which i plan on subjecting my friends to, once I return to brisbane. (sucks to be you guys).

I then back up all of my photos onto my 10" MSI Wind U120 laptop - which also serves as a portable internet connection. Most places have free wifi - meaning that while I'm on the other side of the world I can check out all twelve of my email accounts. I'm also quite paranoid about losing my pics, after one of my best friends lost some invaluable data through theft…

Additionally, I'm sending all of my emails through Google Gears. God Bless Google Gears. I dont even need to be online to write crap emails whilst under the influence of strong Italian wine! Hooray!

I'm also using a multi-site posting tool called Posterous to post to my blog, Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter accounts all at the same time. What? You thought I manually logged into four different accounts to do this? Phhhhhhttt….. Do yourself a favour and check this deal out: www.posterous.com - it's made my travelling life a breeze! I simply send an email (offline, through Google Gears) to a pre-set email address, attach whatever I want to, and then they do all the hard stuff.

Too easy!!

If anybody else has any hot travel tech tips, please send them through!!!

Ciao, Bella!

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Pisa and Florence. Ample excuses for typical tourist shots.

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

The choice was - push the tower over, or hold the tower up. I’m good
at destruction, so the answer was simple. Push the Leaning Tower of
Pisa over…

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Venice. It’d be nicer without 50,000 other tourists.

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Venice - crowded, busy and quirky.

Did you know that they used to chop off the end of somebodys nose if
they were committed of theft? They also used to dangle people from
the top of the bell tower to try and make them change their ways…

Curiouser, and curiouser….

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cinque terre - picture postcards from heaven.

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

If you dont know how to say it - it’s something like “Chink-weh
Terror”… and it is possibly the most stunning place on earth.

We sat on the rocks, drank amazing red wine and watched the sun set
over the Meditteranean. After the chaos of Venice, it was utter
bliss.

I hope I live long enough to go back there one day.

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Budapest

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Budapest -

Seen Buda, seen Pest. Seen the dodgy Kareoke Bar at 3am…

Managed to get a lot of things done in this lovely city - so much
history to absorb! Visited the House of Terror, on Andrassy Bvd…
still reeling from some of those stories.

Went into the ancient Labrynth - without a lantern because the
numbscull working the desk forgot to give me one. Scared myself
shitless when I thought I’d got lost! Thankfully, I’d packed my
MacGuyver Pocket Knife and LED torch - so I was safe from David
Bowie…

I recommend everybody comes here to check this cool city out!

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