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TitleEntrydate ▾
Living Life Bravely28.12.2012
The Secret Trainspotter... Riding London's Old and New Rail09.12.2012
Football of a different kind in London04.11.2012
Ghost Train: West London Parliamentary Train20.10.2012
Thanksgiving 2012 - The Gin Martini07.10.2012
Travel Envy06.10.2012
You have Breakfast at Tiffany's, I'll do lunch at Harrods30.09.2012
The Scotsman Trying to Get Home (so he says...)29.09.2012
Still Overseas. Still Outside.23.09.2012
Paralympics 201205.09.2012
Stranger in a Familiar Land02.09.2012
The Olympic Experience12.08.2012
Engines Running Hot: Hungarian Grand Prix 201205.08.2012
The A to Z of London21.07.2012
Pimm's and Strawberries at the All England Club01.07.2012
Jubilee #2: Linen04.06.2012
Jubilee #1: Diamond03.06.2012
In Bloom26.05.2012
Commute27.04.2012
More Skiin' in Morzine31.03.2012
Roll Up! Roll Up! The Rolling Bridge at Paddington Basin16.03.2012
The City is Eternal, but the Snow is Just Temporary13.02.2012
Rome and Ruin: Superbowl XLVI in Rome, Italy08.02.2012
The Land of Goat's Milk and Honey 18.12.2011
Modern Day Frost Fair26.11.2011
Achtung, Europa12.11.2011
Photos from Florence30.10.2011
I may not be from here, but I know where you are going.28.10.2011
My Life at Gatwick23.10.2011
Definition for the Morning Commute: Lumping09.10.2011
The Best (and Worst) of The British Newspapers18.09.2011
World Trade Center: 10 Years Later10.09.2011
Playing Tour Guide, and Getting A Set of New Eyes04.09.2011
A Single Scene from The Aftermath: London Riots11.08.2011
Little America - Milton Keynes30.07.2011
Formula One British Grand Prix 201123.07.2011
Out-manned25.06.2011
New Year's Day04.06.2011
Why did you move HERE?!?23.04.2011
Photoblog: Pictures from Sydney12.03.2011
Easy, Ripe, and Luscious11.03.2011
Six Timezones and Half a Lifetime Away23.02.2011
Superbowl XLV - German Cowboys and Cheeseheads19.02.2011
Boogie with a suitcase...12.02.2011
Hudson's Bay's links to London25.01.2011
Belize Trip Report: New Romantic Adventures (Part II)22.12.2010
Belize Trip Report: New Romantic Adventures (Part I)22.12.2010
Halfway There, Or The Results of the Experiment07.12.2010
Another Record Breaking Snow!02.12.2010
Expensive Beer, but the Bar is Alight!30.11.2010
Who Says Buffalos can't fly...27.11.2010
Island Life23.11.2010
Accepting Whatever Comes20.11.2010
The Mayan Calendar Conundrum16.11.2010
End of the Big Nerd Ranch, and Return of the Nerd26.10.2010
Toronto: A Global City or My Home Town09.10.2010
Just Outside The City Gates02.10.2010
The Global City versus This Other Eden27.09.2010
A White Spider Writing On The Sky24.09.2010
Cambridge08.09.2010
The World's Stage29.08.2010
Dreams17.08.2010
The Great British Beer Festival07.08.2010
Hungary Owes me 14p!22.07.2010
A Move to a Royal Borough and Holland Park08.07.2010
Despair in the Spiritual Home of Football28.06.2010
Alan Turing’s Birthplace in Maida Vale22.06.2010
Feeling Incomplete After Completion14.06.2010
The Swiss Business Trip11.06.2010
Trying to Cross the Street29.05.2010
On the Eve of Upheaval07.05.2010
The Safety Net Of Everywhere Else27.04.2010
St. George and The City23.04.2010
Boat Race!03.04.2010
Powering Life Just Got Easy to Carry19.03.2010
A Model of the Real World15.03.2010
Ploughed Under09.03.2010
Hockey Night in London01.03.2010
A Wider Field of Vision28.02.2010
Super Bowl XLIV: Partying Just Above Sea Level in Amsterdam12.02.2010
Road Warrior Confession: I Am Up In The Air19.01.2010
COLDER THAN A FREEZER!07.01.2010
Out of Practice02.01.2010
Snow Drifts, not Sand Dunes22.12.2009
Merry Eight Days to Christmas16.12.2009
Flashback: My (quasi) World Cup Moment04.12.2009
Look Up and Remind Yourself Where You Are28.11.2009
How to Exchange a Canadian Driver's License for UK License22.11.2009
The Grand Tourer Hits Madrid20.11.2009
Hola Salamanca!18.11.2009
From Portugal to Spain - Notes from the Rails17.11.2009
Sintra: The Mythical Land of Mist16.11.2009
Hill goes up, hill goes down - Walking Lisbon15.11.2009
Gunners v AZ: UEFA Champions League at Emirates Stadium 05.11.2009
Happy Hallowe'en!31.10.2009
Everybody Take a Day Off and Have a Picnic!29.10.2009
Flashpacker: a Backpacker with a Hotel Loyalty Card28.10.2009
A Silver Rabbit and A Faux Turkey12.10.2009
Strolling Islington10.10.2009
The Stranger in a Strangely Comfortable-Feeling Land07.10.2009
The True Benefit of Government Subsidised Culture04.10.2009
Groovin' Along the Rails to Ascot01.10.2009
Whatcha Reading?26.09.2009
Drawing Comfort from the Smoke from the Yakitori Grill20.09.2009
I can stand under my own umbrella - ella - eh - eh - eh - eh15.09.2009
What I Have Seen08.09.2009
The Death of the Pinstripe...04.09.2009
I’ve Become Boring... and I Love It28.08.2009
Happy Anniversary, International Fliers!25.08.2009
A Tale of Two Cities' Weather Forecasts12.08.2009
If there is a bustle in your Heathrow, don't be alarmed now05.08.2009
Timmy's, but no Timbits31.07.2009
I am not a Traveller, I am a Migrant29.07.2009
I’m Henry the Eighth, I am27.07.2009
Come On, Gromit!22.07.2009
How Real Explorers Kit Themselves Out19.07.2009
Call Me, My Love. You Can Call Me Any Day or Night!13.07.2009
Are you an everyday work of art?11.07.2009
“Last Orders, Please!” and the Lock-in09.07.2009
Canada's National Shame: "Who is that guy?"07.07.2009
How Many “Countries” Have I “Been” To?02.07.2009
Red Dragon30.06.2009
Music and Memory27.06.2009
The World is My Burger24.06.2009
Man, is it bright out there!20.06.2009
You Alright?18.06.2009
Fun Ways to Explore16.06.2009
The Train from Ugly to Uglier10.06.2009
The REAL Battle for European Supremacy (aka Part III)08.06.2009
A Year of Building A New Life03.06.2009
The Battle of European Supremacy Part II29.05.2009
Glamour and Gasoline part IV: The Wrong Train27.05.2009
Glamour and Gasoline part III: Fast Cars in Rich Places27.05.2009
Glamour and Gasoline part II: Living in a Dan Brown Novel27.05.2009
Glamour and Gasonline part I: Nice is nice27.05.2009
Vengeful Birds, or Why I Duck a Lot19.05.2009
The Battle of European Supremacy Part I17.05.2009
Verbally Pants13.05.2009
It Ain’t No Cat Food and Dish of Milk30.04.2009
Fields of Green Felt In Sheffield Snooker City22.04.2009
Hillsborough 1989: They Never Walk Alone14.04.2009
Two Week of Nothing Interesting To Report13.04.2009
I died in hell - They called it Passchendaele10.04.2009
A Young Nation Mourns Her Dead08.04.2009
The Brooding Soldier in Flanders' Fields06.04.2009
Steeples rising above green fields and love of roundabouts03.04.2009
Lille, Coeur of French Flanders01.04.2009
Ferry Cross the Mersey... And Take Me Along24.03.2009
The Cavern Club - The Underground Sound22.03.2009
Lively Life in Liverpool with the Livers and the Scousers20.03.2009
The industrial past of Sheffield11.03.2009
Maybe I should have done this all sooner... then again...07.03.2009
Scarves04.03.2009
New Chapter: In Which I Single-Handedly Gentrify Kings Cross28.02.2009
Swallowing Their Words24.02.2009
I'm not the Stig. Perhaps I am Captain Slow, though...22.02.2009
Full on Fun at Half Term19.02.2009
How to Eat Like A Brit...18.02.2009
Night Bus16.02.2009
What The Heck Is A Shilling?14.02.2009
Ecuadorian birds and The Ten Pound Note11.02.2009
Fear of Tea10.02.2009
The South Quay Bomb of 199608.02.2009
England: Winter Wonderland?06.02.2009
Superbowl XLIII at American Expat Event in London, England02.02.2009
My Shirt is Pucked.01.02.2009
Superbowls Around the World: A Table of Contents31.01.2009
A Productive Member of Society's First Week30.01.2009
Sir Hans Sloane's Collection24.01.2009
A Pint of Lager, A Case of Deja Vu and Two Packets Of Crisps23.01.2009
Feeling Good on Blue Monday19.01.2009
Regional Identity and the Need to Travel13.01.2009
More of a Cloudy Broth Than a Pea Soup08.01.2009
A Day Tour Of Birmingham07.01.2009
This Year Will Be Different01.01.2009
Home for the Holidays... and then home again.28.12.2008
The End of My Forty Days In the Desert (more or less)26.12.2008
Will You Still Love Me Once the Copper Is Gone?22.12.2008
This Ain't The River Thames21.12.2008
I am not scared of Mexico anymore14.12.2008
Grand Canyon Vignettes09.12.2008
Jeers to the Eighteenth; Cheers to the Twenty-First04.12.2008
Open Roads and the Smell of Gunpowder02.12.2008
Blue Water, Red Dust and Planet Orange30.11.2008
My home... or at least one of them.27.11.2008
Hiking to the Vortex24.11.2008
Uncertainty Can Be a Guiding Light20.11.2008
The End of the Recession (at least for me personally)16.11.2008
Lest We Forget: Remembrance Day at Whitehall, London11.11.2008
Politicians and Anti-Politicians09.11.2008
Bond is cool, Hamiliton is fast, Barack is prez05.11.2008
Europa, quidnam es vos?01.11.2008
I moved from Canada to get away from this!29.10.2008
A £ of Flesh (Part 02): Mental Exchange22.10.2008
Giving Thanks16.10.2008
The Ruin of Many a Poor Boy14.10.2008
Spray Painted Crosses: Katrina and New Orleans’ Rebuild13.10.2008
The Crescent City11.10.2008
I am the champion, my friend... The Hockey Pool04.10.2008
I Flew 35,000 Miles And All I Got Was This EKTORP03.10.2008
White Cliffs Part II: Chalk Dust On My Jeans22.09.2008
White Cliffs Part I: A Kite On The Breeze21.09.2008
Am I In The Right Place: The Post-Trip Doubt16.09.2008
Everybody Hates Public Transit!15.09.2008
The Mummies of London11.09.2008
Belgium Speed - Belgium Grand Prix09.09.2008
In Brugge... Where is Colin Farrell?07.09.2008
Brussels Happiness06.09.2008
Black Saturday: September 7, 194005.09.2008
The Hairy Handed Gent's Guide to London02.09.2008
Physical Age, Maturity and Land Rovers25.08.2008
The Week In Pictures, A Few Words and One Song19.08.2008
Olympic Fever - 4 Years Out - Get Innocuated Now!17.08.2008
Sheep And The City16.08.2008
The City of London - past, present and future14.08.2008
Sunshine and Rain14.08.2008
Zero Degrees Thai and Stopping the Floods10.08.2008
Of Ales, Heirs and AERs07.08.2008
Underwater at the Greenwich Foot Tunnel04.08.2008
Something is Buzzing Above the Skies of London03.08.2008
How to Really Confuse Tourists Driving in London02.08.2008
Howl for the Dogs!01.08.2008
Sorry... excuse me... sorry... excuse me... sorry... sorry..30.07.2008
Greg Bats and Bowls27.07.2008
A Mini-Beach Holiday to Brighton25.07.2008
Battersea Power Station - Tour and Redevelopment Plans19.07.2008
The Cathedral of Shopping15.07.2008
Military Might and Skies Alight in Paris15.07.2008
Half a pint of beer in a pint glass12.07.2008
Rain is good for Greenfields08.07.2008
The Elephant and Castle Mystery04.07.2008
Lullingstone & Greenfields04.07.2008
Canada Day in London, UK01.07.2008
Buy DVDs and Save Your Soul on the Streets of London29.06.2008
Singing the Immigrant Blues28.06.2008
One Day of the Fortnight26.06.2008
Would Brent by Any Other Name Still Smell As Sweet?25.06.2008
A £ of Flesh (Part 01): The Price of Clean24.06.2008
0 Degrees to O2 and back by H2O23.06.2008
Rath Yatra Parade, London, England, June 22nd, 200822.06.2008
The Long and Winding Road to an Elementary Address21.06.2008
What First Class Should Mean20.06.2008
Stonehenge17.06.2008
SPLINK! is the sound of a Canadian being hit by a car16.06.2008
Pleasant Thoughts on a Morning Commute16.06.2008
Checking Out The Neighbourhoods13.06.2008
Come to London, see New York09.06.2008
Being a Sport in London08.06.2008
Paige? Pay-gee? How do you say that word?08.06.2008
London is not Going to Explode07.06.2008
Floating on the Surface of London05.06.2008
Torontonian Tourist in Toronto (Part II)02.06.2008
Separation Anti-Anxiety28.05.2008
Whodya cheer for? Picking a footie team...23.05.2008
Torontonian Tourist in Toronto (Part I)18.05.2008
Preparation Means Perspiration and a Touch of Frustration13.05.2008
The Emotional Importance of Geography27.04.2008
End of the Road, Warrior22.04.2008
A bad day for planes10.04.2008
Toronto the White12.03.2008
Total Eclipse of the Heart... I mean Moon, lunar eclipse20.02.2008
Hockey Night In Canada (Montreal Specifically)17.02.2008
Bone Chiller10.02.2008
Yao Ming is Very Popular05.02.2008
The City on the Edge of Space21.01.2008
Reflections on a slow trip to Quebec (that could get faster)11.01.2008
Quebec City is cold, snowy and 400 years old06.01.2008
My Favourite Souvenir28.12.2007
The Candid Photo19.12.2007
The Sunday Night Before...17.12.2007
Is my head part not part of my body?06.12.2007
The Wild Chickens of Tobago, Part II25.11.2007
The Wild Chickens of Tobago, Part I25.11.2007
South African Springboks and Their Relationship to Burma21.10.2007
Austin Stays Weird24.09.2007
My Left Carbon Foot(print)18.09.2007
Mr. Bonds and the Long Ball17.09.2007
Our Labour Day has come and gone03.09.2007
Dikes of Waterland20.08.2007
Only suckers drink in bars16.08.2007
A house united, but some rooms could use some subdivision12.08.2007
My Holiday snaps from London09.08.2007
A Canadian Werebear in London04.08.2007
A sight few others have seen...15.07.2007
A Reflection on 10 Years on the Road12.06.2007
All We Are Saying... Is Give Us A Goal!13.05.2007
All dressed up for my 100th entry!09.05.2007
Atlanta is burning (me out)24.04.2007
A Tale from Nowhere26.03.2007
Goodbye to the Left Coast22.03.2007
Fine dining, assuming the rotation doesn't make you queasy08.03.2007
Where’s a Federal Air Marshall When You Need One?04.03.2007
Seattle? Do I have to wear plaid?18.02.2007
Mr. Fancy-Pants Holidays in Panama06.01.2007
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight19.12.2006
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Atlantic City26.11.2006
EWR is NOT One of the Seven Wonders of the World.17.11.2006
An Ode to My Little Green Bag03.11.2006
There Was No Place at the Inn24.09.2006
The Tribute In Light11.09.2006
The Coolest Flight I Never Flew28.08.2006
The Best Meal Ever31.07.2006
Japan Trip Report17.07.2006
The Greatest Robot Ever17.07.2006
Shinkansen Whirlwind12.07.2006
On Comfortable Trains and Uncomfortable Baths08.07.2006
The Slow and Contented: Tokyo Driftin'06.07.2006
Oh Lord, Stuck in Lodi Again30.06.2006
Hiking Wild New Jersey12.06.2006
Road Trippin’ in May and June of 200605.06.2006
Disparate and Antagonistic Elements26.04.2006
A mass of new entries...11.04.2006
Welcome Road Gladiators!31.03.2006
Cathy I'm Lost I Said Though I Knew She Was Sleeping30.03.2006
Superbowl 40 in New York City05.02.2006
Trip Report - Roatan, Honduras for New Years Eve03.01.2006
Trans-Mongolian rail report08.11.2005
Completed My Round the World Loop07.11.2005
Regaining my lost day06.11.2005
In the City of Blinding Lights05.11.2005
See China It's Right There In Front of You04.11.2005
Destroying the myth of the romance of train travel01.11.2005
Playing Poker with the Ulaan Baatar police31.10.2005
Beer is the universal language30.10.2005
Wild, wild east...29.10.2005
A 4 day land cruise - life on the Trans-Siberian28.10.2005
Crossing into Asia - Km 177726.10.2005
The Cost Benefit Accounting of Travel24.10.2005
The hunt for the dining car23.10.2005
Beer, rain and the appeal of the Irish22.10.2005
Paris, the livable19.10.2005
What type of old person will you be?15.10.2005
Clearing customs wearing a Splinter Cell T-shirt12.10.2005
Drinks with the big boys!08.10.2005
Getting around Paris via Public Transit28.09.2005
The Pantheon - more dead Parisians25.09.2005
If God ran a hostel...17.09.2005
To sitting in a cafe sipping on ice cold beer11.09.2005
A city that's hard to leave...31.08.2005
The new world after September 200125.08.2005
Watching the all-star game in the ex-land of the Expos12.07.2005
Man Eats San Francisco (for next to nothing)28.04.2005
Paris, France,09.04.2005
Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa10.02.2005
Tanzania - 5 day safari10.02.2005
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania - Rongai Route up Mount Kilimanjaro10.02.2005
What XXX Means in Amsterdam09.02.2005
Paradise Lost08.02.2005
The Mercury is Rising07.02.2005
Superbowl 39 in Tanzania06.02.2005
Greg's Useful Swahili Phrasebook05.02.2005
Zebras are Blocking My Picture04.02.2005
The Perfect Picture03.02.2005
Serengeti with Manyara Sauce31.01.2005
The ABCs of booking a safari30.01.2005
I’ll be coming down the mountain when I come…26.01.2005
Day One on the Mountain23.01.2005
Faded glory in the shadow of the mountain22.01.2005
Kilimanjaro Rises like Olympus above the Serengeti20.01.2005
Meeting America’s Medical System18.01.2005
Music Midtown Festival01.05.2004
Las In Translation: Las Vegas on No Sleep16.03.2004
My life as a consultant27.02.2004
Costa Rica, January 30, 2004 through February 14, 200414.02.2004
Costa Rica04.02.2004
Superbowl 38 at Nashville South02.02.2004
90210 or 1950 – Beverly Hills, California13.08.2003
South America 2003: Arica and Santiago (redux)27.02.2003
South America 2003: La Paz, Bolivia16.02.2003
South America 2003: Buenos Aires08.02.2003
South America 2003: Punta Arenas, redux01.02.2003
South America 2003: Patagonia01.02.2003
Superbowl 37 at my hotel in Pto. Montt26.01.2003
South America 2003: Santiago, Puerto Varas and Bariloche24.01.2003
Heavenly Thanksgiving And Noticing I Am Fat29.11.2002
Becoming Californian25.11.2002
Climbing Mount Diablo, and planting a seed14.10.2002
Crying In My Budweiser – The Blues of St. Louis03.09.2002
Staggering Through Hemingway’s Footsteps in Havana18.03.2002
Standing With One Foot In the West…16.03.2002
Superbowl 36 at Shoeless Joes04.02.2002
38 year old grandmother strippers and American Born NHLers09.06.2001
Rocky Mountain High23.03.2001
Superbowl 35 at the Sports Column29.01.2001
Anarchy in the U.S.A., it’s coming some day, maybe…16.11.2000
I Don't Care If I Never Get Back20.07.1997