Well it's been a few days since we've managed to update you guys back home and we have a bunch of pictures to leave you all with - by the way you'll notice all of the images shot are of a fairly lower resolution. The main reason being i'm not adding anything shot with the pro kit, which hopefully i can reserve for an exhibition when i return to the UK. So anyways i have heaps to tell you guys.... It seems the last update was sent from the cheapest internet we have found so far, which was in Whangerei, it [View Full Entry]

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Well friends and family we seem to be picking up quite a pace as we head up north with Cape Reinga hopefully the ultimate destination in the North. Whether or not we actually make it remains to be seen. Ya see our bus passes will only get us as far as Pahia which incidentally we leave for today - but Cape Reinga is still about 7 hours North of there by vehicle. We maybe forced into doing an excursion which will be pretty good, laura has been looking into our options this morning whilst we have been going through the download [View Full Entry]

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Well as the title suggests we are today making the first step on the true backpacker trail! Well it's been more like a holiday so far as we've found it cheaper to stay in two hotels (the quadrant and the mercure) than staying in hostels. So it hasn't been that long really since we updated you folks back home and beyond on our adventures and mischief, but we're now on Sunday 15th and in truth we're only here killing time as our bus doesnt leave here until 4pm this afternoon. So on Friday we checked out the art gallery, it was [View Full Entry]

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Good Morning (or evening for those of you up north!!), We made it!! after flying just under 20000KM via Hong Kong from Heathrow we landed in Auckland at around 7am with our bodies crying what the hell!! So we travelled down to London on the Mega Bus - opr Mega Crammed Bus as i like to call it, we left Sheffield at a slightly later time of around 1015hrs and arrive into London Victoria about 1400hrs. The journey was straight through without stops which depending on which way you look at it made the the experience slightly less excruciating. The main [View Full Entry]

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Well, wow, what can i say for once i'm bordering on speechless. You see 8 months ago i had an idea, well more like a thought about venuring further than i'd ever journeyed before. I suppose in truth the thoughts of travelling have been there since i left to join my first ship when i was 17. So here is the break down for those of you who didnt know, realise or actually care that i'd done 10 years at sea!! Carnival Cruise Lines 2000 - 2001 Festival Cruise Lines 2001 - 2002 (No Longer Trading) Celebrity Cruise Lines 2002 - [View Full Entry]

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So my vacation is slowly drawing to an end but i'm pleased to say i can finally announce the closely guarded plans i've been planning with LL for the last couple of months, but that will follow shortly.... So i know i didnt type a blog to accompany the images from Blackpool but to be fair their wasnt a huge amount to put so i thought the images were good enough to be left up alone, i hope you enjoyed them. So cracking on with the latest batch which are from as the title suggests a day in the dale's late [View Full Entry]

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Blog to follow people but here are the images from Blackpool last week.... Regards Jd [View Full Entry]

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It’s been a whilst since I’ve posted anything and as usual I’m going to hide behind the excuse that I’ve been a bit buy getting my “affairs” in order. As far as I can recall it’s been about 6-8 weeks since I added anything and even without looking I can’t begin to remember what the images were of? Anyways August pretty much flew by, my 28th Birthday was pretty cool and it was good to be able to do something I wanted to do for a change instead of the usual run of the mill party which normally ensues on a [View Full Entry]

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Its been a long month already and it’s barely a week in, still it’s a big relief to finally have my immediate future secure. I’ve been confirmed to go to the Braemar after my vacation towards the end of August. Well it’s also coming up on the final week of 8 really long ones in Norway, I love the place but enough is enough, it’s too much, too often I’m afraid, a third straight year has finally taken it’s toll. Perhaps it’s not the time and place, perhaps it’s the passengers? After all five contracts as a photographer pretty much drove [View Full Entry]

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Well to be fair the title of the blog is slightly misleading as Russia was quite a whilst ago, but it's been so busy and the ports keep coming thick and fast that it's been impossible to keep on top of things. So the last blog sort of finished at the end of my first cruise which was slightly manic as it was all about getting back on top of things and trying to get sorted with a view to the Baltic cruise which was coming really soon afterwards. So it was pretty much going over old ground with the ports [View Full Entry]

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