Wednesday 24 May 2016 Arriving in Bangkok yesterday afternoon we were picked up by a limo and whisked away to the Pullman Hotel. The hotel has a rather interesting atrium making one want to go and find a rope and some abseiling gear. After inquiring at the desk about hiring a tuk-tuk for a tour of […]
Tuesday 16 May 2017 Landing at the Kuala Lumpur airport mid-afternoon I took a taxi to the Traders Hotel in the centre of town about 40k north of the airport while Sylvia went off with her colleagues. Twice before I have been to KL and never made it up the towers as they have been […]
Saturday 6 May 2017- The Battle Box Several hours after leaving NZ out of Christchurch on Friday morning I realised we were tracking across Australia. From the air it looked a lot more attractive than it does on the ground. Large, what looked like, salt lakes fed rivers running north to the sea. Cloud formations […]
Friday 17 March 2017 Last night my good friend, Glen, arrived from NZ. After spending an hour plus at the Hertz rental car counter dealing with an idiot (in spite of the booking saying and being priced for the car to be dropped off at KL airport in Malaysia on Monday he insisted we couldn’t take […]
Tuesday 21 February 2017 Having had some replacement parts stuck in both knees on the 23 January I am not quite as mobile as I would like to be, so when one of Sylvia’s colleagues suggested checking out the Shanghai Centre at People’s Square just around the corner from the hotel it sounded like a […]
Friday 10 March 2017 With Sylvia based here as the Regional President of Royal Canin we have a nice apartment, situated on the edge of Nassim Hill, close to Orchard Road and the Botanical Gardens, in a complex with a gym and a nice pool. It’s a great opportunity to explore Singapore and many of the surrounding […]
Friday 6 January 2017 As Sylvia headed off to Singapore to hunt out an apartment for us I was very privileged to be invited to Kaiteriteri, in the north of the South Island, by Karl and Rachel and their son Sam. We stayed in an apartment overlooking the beach. Rachel’s extended family, mainly from Christchurch, were camped […]
Thursday 24 November 2016 Arriving late yesterday afternoon I made some enquiries about what to do in Bangkok. One suggestion was to take the public boat up the river. I went for a stroll around the local streets; as always I was intrigued by the jumble of power and telephone lines. Returning to the Mandarin Oriental hotel there were […]
Monday 21 November 2016 Established in 985, Montpellier is one of the few cities in France without a Roman heritage and one of the few in Southern France without a Greek foundation. With around two hundred and sixty thousand people, one third of whom are students, it is the eighth largest city in France. I strolled to the […]
Wednesday 16 November 2016 Sylvia’s colleague Hannah had studied in Madrid a few years ago. She very kindly gave me a list of places to go. We are staying at Hortaleza, about 10km from the city centre. It’s a stunning day with the only mark in the clear blue sky a short vapour trail. I […]