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Le dîner chez Huby
March 26th, 2011 Le dîner chez Huby – dîner avec nos nouveaux amis Serge et Marie-Laure Huby à Rouen. We really should have taken more pictures !! Thanks again to Marie-Laure and Serge for their wonderful hospitality. Also would like … Continue reading
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Vimy Ridge Canadian War Mamorial
March 29th, 2011 On our way back from Normandy we stopped near Arras at the Canadian memorial at Vimy ridge. The Canadian National Vimy Memorial site is located approximately eight kilometres north of Arras, France, near the towns of Vimy … Continue reading
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Making Crab Cakes
This is the recipe and method for the crab cakes I made. With thanks to the folks at the BBC good food guide, although I changed it a little. Ingredients 200g fresh white crabmeat 1 red chilli , deseeded and … Continue reading
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Crème Brûlée Experiment
January 30th, 2011 Made my 1st crème brûlée last night – mixed it a little too hard so there were bubbles but consistency was great and it tasted great, accompanied by a nice Australian desert wine. Mission accomplished and a … Continue reading
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Operation Soda Farl
As per my facebook post, this was a recent experiment to see if I could make soda bread. It actually worked – tasted like the real McCoy 🙂 Ingredients and method are as follows: – 1.5kg Neills Soda Bread Flour … Continue reading
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Partial Solar Eclipse 2011
Here’s some pictures I managed to take of the partial solar eclipse this morning with a bite size chunk taken out of the sun’s disk at the 9 o’clock position. I would note that there’s a tree in the way … Continue reading
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New Year Eve – Holland 2010
Some pics taken with Peter & Francesca on new year’s eve, 2010. There was plenty of street action outside later on. Share
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Spain Trip, November 2010
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2010 | Morocco Road Trip
Shots from a 6 day trip (2700km) around Morocco on a Harley with Glenn MacArtney. Amazing trip and even brushed up on my French a little 🙂 Thanks to the hosts with the most Antoine & Emma in Casablanca. Share
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2010 | 1987 KLR650 Makeover
Took my 1987 KLR650 A1 over to Dad’s place in Northern Ireland at the begininng of April 2010. Completely stripped down the bike, repainted, refurbished and rebuilt her over about 2.5 weeks. Share
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2009 | Rotterdam – Istanbul [Full Trip]
These are some of the pictures that I took along the way on my solo bike trip from Rotterdam to Istanbul and back in the fall of 2009. It was an epic trip of 3 weeks and one day. I … Continue reading
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Day 3&4 | Bratislava
After a slow start to the morning, and a McGurk fry-up accompanied by numerous caribbean hot sauces we headed off to Bens garage where we had parked the bikes the night before. Time to head for the shooting club. Ben … Continue reading
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Day 2|Regensburg – Bratislava
After a good night’s sleep in the roadside motel, I tried my luck at the breakfast buffet downstairs. lots of plates of sliced meats, cold-cuts, cheese and the like, as well as different breads, cereals etc and bacon. So had … Continue reading
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Day 1|Rotterdam-Regensburg
Day 1 As you can see from the above map, the route for the journey took me through some 14 countries plus Kosovo, which to some is a country and to others is not. The below shot is the bike … Continue reading
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2008 | Trip Across America
August 2008 – pictures from our bike trip across America from Chicago to Seattle. Along the way we took in Sturgis ND, Yellowstone Park, Bozeman MT, Spokane, Okanagan Valley, Canada, whistler and Squamish, Vancouver BC and Finally down to Seattle. … Continue reading
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2008 | Biking from Lagos to Sungba’s Eredo – Nigeria
This was a trip from Lagos out to Sungbo’s Eredo – a circular 100 mile defensive ditch dug in the middle ages as the border of one of the kingdoms of the area. Apparently it took more manual effort to … Continue reading
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2004 Dissertation | Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada
Below is my final dissertation entitled: Container Shipping Strategy: Charting a course for future profitability. This took most of the summer to write and it was submitted in order to graduate on August 10th, 2004. The conclusion on pg 72 … Continue reading
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