Woke up feeling quite disgusting with some nasty cold/flu thing, so I got some pharmaceuticals on the way to the last day of sessions. It turns out that the Queen Victoria Building is right by where we were conferencing, so had a quick walk through before sessions started: Inside the QVB Outside the QVB. What [...]

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My baggage hadn’t arrived yet, so I dressed in hastily washed versions of yesterday’s clothes and spent most of the day doing work things. After that, a fantastic dinner at some place I can’t remember the name of (pork belly, baby cow and belgian chocolate pudding), then a little bit of sight-seeing in the rain [...]

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Highlights (or lowlights) of Wednesday – day 1 of three-day trip to Sydney. Wellington: there was a man in the airport with one of those signs to identify who he was there to pick up. the sign read: ANDREWS BOOTIE On the plane to Sydney: I sat behind the most hated of all passengers: “The [...]

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A skip. Day 3 of O-Week. Lectures haven’t even started yet …

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It’s a bit slack of me to have owned my camera for about seven months without taking obligatory University building snaps, so here’s a couple to start off. University Registry (Clocktower) Building – a similar photo to the ones taken by busloads of tourists that line up with their cameras across the river Marama Hall [...]

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