Photos
This section contains a range of photos I've taken on my travels.
Iceland
I spent a week on southwest Iceland, enjoying it's cool capital before heading out to see some beautiful countryside.
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Latvia
Here's some photos from Riga in Latvia, where I was for a couple of days for a conference.
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South Korea
I spent around ten days visiting South Korea during September 2009. I can only say I wish I'd had much longer - the hospitality and the food were both totally amazing. I wasn't blessed with the best of weather for all of my time there, so the photos don't really do it justice, but here they are anyway.
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Japan
I spent about 3 weeks in Japan in September 2009. I mostly visited some of the best-known Japanese cities, but I also managed to get out into the countryside for some stunning views of Mount Fuji.
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Switzerland 2009
Lisbon and a little England
Italy 2009
Here are the photos from my summer 2009 trip to Italy, a country packed with history, culture and good food.
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A few days in Scandinavia
I made a little trip to see some friends and attend a conference and hackathon, and snapped a few photos along the way.
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Belgium And Ukraine 2009
I had two conferences a week apart, needed a vacation and have something of a thing for overnight train journeys and random wanderings around the former Soviet Union. Result: my winter/spring wanderings, initially in Belgium for a conference, with a day in Holland, but mostly in Ukraine.
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Bulgaria
I had a conference in Sophia, Bulgaria. Delightfully, I was also taken out to see the Rila monastery by a conference organizer the day afterwards. Here are some snaps from the trip.
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Czech Republic
While living in Bratislava, I'm less than an hour from the Czech border. Thus, I can make trips over there to visit some places now and then. This album has photos from such escapades.
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San Francisco and Around
I had a meeting in Mountain View, and took the night and morning before joining it in San Francisco. Then on the day after the meeting, I joined one of the other attendees and couple of other people from the hostel on a little road-trip heading north from the city.
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Belarus
After the trip where I crossed Russia on the Trans-Siberian railway, I continued to Minsk, and then onwards to Brest. This album contains the photos from my days in the Republic of Belarus.
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Crossing Russia: The Trans-Siberian Journey
In the autumn of 2008, I traveled along the Trans-Siberian railway. Rather than doing it all in one go, I broke it into a series of smaller journeys and visited cities spread across Russia, deviating a little from the Trans-Siberian route proper in a couple of places. These photos document the trip, though there should be an e-book too with much more written detail.
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Romania, Budapest and the Tatras
Photos from a journey starting in the south of Transylvania, heading north through a few Romanian cities and then into Hungary, and finishing with a few days of relaxing and walking in the High Tatra mountains in Slovakia.
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A Break In Sweden And Denmark
Before the annual European Perl Conference, held in 2008 in Copenhagen, I took a few days break in the south of Sweden, visiting two cities. Then I had some time to relax in Denmark.
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Life In Slovakia
In May 2008 I moved to live in Slovakia. This album captures some of the things I'm doing over there.
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Kiev
I got to go to Kiev for a Perl conference, and took a couple of days to see the sights.
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Life In Spain
Some photos I've taken while living in Spain.
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Israel
I ended 2007 and started 2008 in Israel, attending a conference amongst taking in the history and current tensions, then getting away from it all with a trek in the Negev.
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China
In October 2007, I spent four weeks in China. Starting in Hong Kong, I headed west accross the south of China. The westmost point was the city of Shigatse in Tibet. From Tibet, I headed east again, finishing up in Shanghai. Here are the photos I took as I did over 2,500 miles of overland travel, reaching up to 5,600m of altitude.
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Slovenia
Photos from my trip to Slovenia. I never got around to writing much about this trip for various reasons, but here are the pictures anyway.
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Austria
Photos from my trip to Austria. I never got around to writing much about this trip for various reasons, but here are the pictures anyway.
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East Europe
In August 2007 I grabbed my backpack and spent just over a week hanging around in Eastern Europe. Starting in Budapest, capital of Hungary, I headed north up the Danube to Bratislava, the Slovakian capital, East to the High Tatras, around them into Poland and finished up in Krakow. I grabbed about 30 minutes in Warsaw on my way to the airport to fly on to a business meeting immediately following the trip. Joining me for most of the trip was Gary, a friend from my uni days. It was his first backpacking trip.
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Oregon
I headed over to Portland, Oregon for OSCON. A few photo-worthy things happened: we flew over Greenland on the way there with a cloudless sky so there was an amazing view, and on the final day Rebekah, a friend I made at OSCON, took me and a couple of other guys at the conference hiking and to see the Pacific ocean, which I'd never seen before.
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Switzerland 2007
Photos from my 2007 trip to the beautiful country that is Switzerland.
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Russia
After my trip to Scandinavia in May 2007 I went on to Russia to visit a friend who is studying over there. The pace of my photo-taking slowed a little, but here's the few I took.
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Scandinavia
Under construction gallery of photos from my May 2007 trip to Scandinavia.
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Holland
I went along to a Perl Hackathon in Arnhem, Holland. I then had a couple of days to enjoy Holland, which were divided between countryside and city.
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Spain February 2007
The cold, harsh winter of England gave way to a nice trip to warm and sunny Spain in February. Much of the trip involved work, since that's why I was there; as per usual, I went some places on the weekends.
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Morocco
In February 2007 I joined a weekend trip to the north of Morocco. Surprisingly fertile, it was a little prettier than I expected and culturally pretty amazing.
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Germany
I attended the 2007 German Perl Workshop to give a couple of talks. After that, I took a week's holiday in Germany. It was my first visit there, but I'd love to go again.
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Nice And Les Gorges du Verdon
After a conference in Nice in January of 2007, I had some time to look around Nice itself. Even better, three of us from the conference got together, hired a car and the one of us who could drive took us up to Les Gorges du Verdon, the second biggest canyon in the world.
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Paris
In November 2006 I headed along to the French Perl Workshop to give a talk. As part of the arrangements for this, I was to have a day being a tourist in Paris.
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Chicago
In November 2006 a Hackathon was organized just outside of the Chicago suburbs. The chance to hack and see a city that I'd heard good things of, when put with cheap flight prices and a subsidised hotel rate, proved too much to resists, so off I went. Conclusion: Chicago rocks, but in November it's cold and cloudy. Anyway, here's the pictures.
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Spain 2006: The October Job
October found me back on the Costa Del Sol for the second time in 2006 for three works of work, of course along with some evenings and weekends of fun exploring.
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North Yorkshire
I was brought up in North Yorkshire and walked around it plenty, and decided it was time I started photographing it, since I probably won't be in this beautiful part of the world forever.
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USA 2006
This album contains photos from my trip to the USA in the summer of 2006. I was there for pretty most of July and the first few days of August - essentially a month. I spent the first half of the trip in Florida at the Disney resort, the second half in Arizona and a day between the two is Las Vegas.
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My last week in Cambridge
A few photos from my last week in Cambridge, leading up to and including the graduation ceremony.
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My 2006 Trip To Spain
Once again I headed out to Spain for a couple of weeks of work (and play on the weekends and the bits of the evening I didn't work for). I went and did various Stuff, and as per usual took photos.
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21st Birthday Party
A few folks gathered to celebrate me getting older. Quite a few, in fact. Thanks everyone - it was an amazing night and certainly one that I won't forget. :-)
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London Trip In December 2005
As in 2004 I headed down to London for a long weekend with my friend Gary and his family, who looked after me really well and even took me out for a curry! I took a few photos too.
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Railways
I've always been something of a train lover - from watching Thomas The Tank Engine when I was a little kid to building a model railway for many years, until we ran out of space at home. I'm currently planning a Swiss layout for when I get a place of my own, which will hopefully be in 2007. In the meantime, here's some railway photos from around the world.
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YAPC::EU::2005 In Braga, Portugal
In 2005 I attended the European Perl Conference for the first time. It took place over three days in Braga, Portugal - a warm, sunny and cheap location. I gave two talks and had a lot of fun with the other various Perl folks I met. Here are some pictures - I didn't take many at the conference itself, but there are loads on the web.
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My 2005 Trip To Switzerland
In July 2005 I took a 10 night holiday in the beautiful Jungfrau region of Switzerland, staying at the Sunstar Hotel in Wengen with Dan from work, Gary from uni and my mum (though she only came for the last 7 days). By day we explored the area and did some great walks and by night we enjoyed wonderful food and a couple of pints of the local brew. Thankfully, the photos are only of the day. :-)
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Stuff In My Life
A few shots of things that I see day to day as I go about my life.
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My 2005 Trip To Spain
I spent the first couple of weeks in April 2005 working in Spain. When I wasn't working (mostly on the two weekends that I was there) I got to go and do some touristy stuff, snapping some pics with my trusty sleek camera. Anyway, here they are for you to enjoy. Seems some people expect them on the web nice and promptly now. :-)
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My December 2004 Trip To London
Between Saturday 11th and Tuesday 14th December 2004 I went to London, attending a Perl workshop on the Saturday and spending the rest of the time with my friend Gary, who along with his family kindly invited me to stay with then at their house, somewhere near London. Anyway, as is normal for my trips to places these days, I had my camera and here are some photos.
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North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Around the middle of September 2004 a friend from uni came to stay, and we went on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Turns out it was Thomas The Tank Engine weekend, which only added to the fun. Here are a few photos from the day.
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My 2004 Trip To Arizona
I spent the 15th - 29th July 2004 in the USA, and most of it in Arizona (aside from a day in Nevada, when I went to Las Vegas). This page contains photos of the things I saw there as well as notes to explain what they are (and so that when I look back at this in a lot of years time, provided I'm still about to look back, I can remember what I did when I was young(er)).
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