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Gateway to the Rainbow Road

The Rainbow Road on the South Island of New Zealand is a must do for any off road touring cyclist visiting the country. It winds its way up a valley, over a pas...

French Villages

It was a credit card tour. We packed a road bike. A backpack. Thongs (flip flops). No panniers. And a credit card. We landed in Geneve, and flew out of Marseill...

Hungry ponies

With the Tour de France just around the corner, it reminded me of the cycling trips I've done in France. A few years ago, I took le velo and rode up Hautacam. I...

Winging out for breakfast

A Williamstown sunrise is spectacular. In the winter, it rises more over the bay, and it in the summer it rises over the city as the angle changes. But my favou...

Open water swimming

You don't need much to go swimming. Goggles. Swimsuit. You don't even need the watch. But hey - it doesn't count if you don't record it. Swimming in Lake Sammam...

Azure Infrastructure: Exam 70-533 - Manage Azure Identities

I'm not following the normal module order from the learning objectives for a fairly simple reason. I'm trying to follow it more in the manner which an Enterpris...

Mountain flowers

I just got back from a relaxing week in Mammoth Lakes, CA - an awesome place. And it reminded me of back in the Pyrenees, high steep mountains, and stunning spr...

Unfurling fronds

The Dandenong Ranges is a temperate rainforest full of lyrebirds, kookaburras, rosellas and wallabies. One of my favourite things there though are the tree fern...

Sunset over Zion

Took my cell phone, my running shoes, and a water bottle, and headed up Watchman trail at the entrance to Zion Canyon in Utah to catch the sunset. It's a specta...

A Utah Sunset

We spent three weeks travelling from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City. We went via Moab, which is kind of like going to from Sydney to Melbourne via Mildura. But gla...

Watching...

Many years ago, I moved up to the Dandenong ranges so that I could be close to the running trails in Sherbrooke Forest. In the first six months or so we played ...

Field of colour

Continuing my theme from last weeks Tulip Festival photos for colourfulphotography on a Thursday, today I'm sharing a field of tulips. Getting up to Skagit Coun...

🏆 The Villan's Comps - Adopt a Minnow for a Month - V3

☠️ What the Heck are You on About? ☠️ Each month I will run this competition, and one lucky person will be adopted for one month. Upon adoption, I will support ...

Seattle Space Needle

The Seattle Space Needle was built for the 1962 Worlds Fair. Every year for my kids birthdays we trundle up the top to celebrate them. It's an awesome restauran...

A driving four pack?

That odd moment when a four pack of some mildly alcoholic French beverage sales past as part of the Tour de France caravan. Normally during the caravan, they ha...

The Rainbow Road - New Zealand

A few years ago we rode around the northern part of the south Island of New Zealand. An absolutely stunning place that I really want to go back to. We towed our...

Prehistoric

I was really really glad to be on the otherside of the fence to this brute. But at the same time, it was awesome to be able to get so close to him. I probably s...

Azure Infrastructure: Exam 70-533 - Design and Implement Azure App Service Apps

Now we're getting into the meat of the exam, this is expected to be 10-15% of what will be tested. Azure App Service Web Apps Main reference documentation. App ...

Ride then swim Dad?

June is a brilliant time of year in Seattle. One of my favourite things is the sunset ride on the south end of Lake Sammamish. There's a kids park, a swim area,...

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

This was one of the first things we did when we moved to Seattle. We landed in the middle of winter and experienced six weeks of miserable grey, wet drizzle. Th...