View this post on Instagram Light and shadow around this beautiful ship, which I’ve waited years to see A post shared by Colin Catlin (@colin_catlin) on Jun 2, 2019 at 6:17am PDT I wandered into Stockholm’s old town (‘Gamla Stan’) today. I had been wondering where the true tourist hordes would be, and well, here […]
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What is paradise? I do believe paradise would have lots of bikes, and lots of people riding them. Paradise would also weather suitable for athletic activity, cool but not cold. The sun would shine. Flowers and greenery would be in abundance. Splendid monuments would rise. The place would bustle, but it wouldn’t be busy. People
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It’s pretty much undeniable that this phase of the trip is far more photogenic than the previous stops. I landed in Christchurch on the sixth of January, and spent three days there, two of which I was working remotely. I then drove down to a farmstay a bit south of Twizel, and then the next
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Australia, as experienced by me in Sydney and Melbourne was a friendly, but unremarkable (and too hot!) of a place overall. Nice, but nice enough to return anytime soon, given the long and expensive flight. That was, until I headed out to the Blue Mountains, a two hour train ride west of Sydney. As the
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