High Altitude Dining in London

The increased daylight hours have prompted a lot of us to stay outdoors – whether it’s the cricket, the beach, or enjoying a cool glass of drink outside the many venues here in London.  Comprehensive online resources have been invested into – from the top 50 curated by bookatable right through to word of mouth of a colleague who knows someone who dined at a particular place.  Cheers to summer!

Help for Heroes

Help for Heroes, a UK military charity, organised a Hero Ride event in central London today and this is what the main avenue leading to Buckingham Palace looked like. It was just two people who decided, five years ago, that they wanted to do something to help the wounded vets from Afghanistan and Iraq. It shows the power of what just a couple of people can do to help out! http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Tips on mixing work with travel vagabonding

My trip during Canadian winter in 2010 was possibly the first time I’ve mixed work with travel vagabonding.  After a several month long contract ended, I decided that I’ve had enough of Brisbane (for the summer anyway), didn’t feel like heading to Toowoomba (where I grew up)… and decided to buy a return ticket to Vancouver.  This was also the first time I went overseas by myself.

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Q&A from Emerging Digital Marketer (looking to move from Brisbane to London for career development)

Early October this year, I received an email from an emerging digital marketer currently based in Brisbane and researching their options to develop their career overseas, in particular the UK. They will remain anonymous 😉 and here’s a slightly reworded of my email exchange with this individual…

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Tips on renting and sharehousing in London

I’ve been renting and sharehousing (or flatsharing) since I was 18 when I had to move out of Toowoomba and then to Brisbane for university.  I’ve had some fairly interesting experience in Brissie – ranging from flatsharing with three guys (2 French, 1 Portugese) to four people (that was in such a state of flux because of the traveller ratio that I would get maybe one new flatmate every 1-2 months) to family friends and then colleagues.  But, this was Brisbane.  London is kind of a different ballgame and people have different experiences.

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Marrakech travel tips

Marrakech is an interesting but nonetheless quiet a difficult city to travel.   Why Marrakech and Morocco? I wanted to go somewhere fairly left-of-centre and to also travel somewhere in Africa and felt that Marrakech would be a good introduction in terms of getting to know this continent. Morocco is not the first country that I have been to when Islam is the predominant religion but my last country was ages ago.

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