Troy's Gone Walkabout
Sights. Delights. Half-Baked Anecdotes.
 
Trips With Only Photos
2005-2010  
Switzerland, France and Germany: In and around Geneva and Basel
Annual collections that document some of the highlights I've experienced while living in the heart of Western Europe.
Recent additions: Snapshots of winter in the French Alps.

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Nov 2009  
Norway: Stavanger
A quick visit to see Arne on his home turf.

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Oct 2009  
Netherlands and Belgium: Amsterdam and Bruges
After a week long training course in Amsterdam we had the chance to spend the weekend tracking down the headstone of my great-grandmother's brother killed in WW1 on the France/Belgium border and wander along the canals of Bruges.

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Jul-Aug 2009  
Scotland
I promised myself at the end of 2004 I'd get back and give Scotland a more thorough going-over, and so here we are.

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Jul 2009  
Sweden: Stockholm
In Scandinavia's most beautiful city with my beautiful wife on our beautiful anniversary. Just beautiful.

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May 2009  
England: Oxford, Stamford and Rye
Paul and Alice's second wedding ceremony, with a couple of other brief stops along the way.

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Apr 2009  
Australia: Melbourne
Paul and Alice's first wedding ceremony and attending my first footy game in five years.

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Apr 2009  
United Arab Emirates: Dubai
Brief stopovers on my way to Melbourne and return.

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Jan 2009  
Australia: Home again, home again
Around Tasmania a little more and the obligatory pitstop to catch up with friends in Sydney.

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Jul 2008  
United States and Canada: New England and Quebec
With Katie studying in the US over the summer, this was the perfect opportunity for a trip to celebrate our first anniversary.

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Jun 2008  
England: South Coast
Exploring here and there while I have been working in Southampton.

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Jul 2007  
Costa Rica and Panama
Honeymooning in Central America.

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Jul 2007  
United States: Memphis
Katie and I get hitched.

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Apr 2007  
Grenada
Attending six matches of the Super Eights stage of the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies, and exploring this Caribbean island on non-match days. It's "the game of love and unity" if the tournament theme song is to be believed.

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Dec 06-Jan 07  
Australia: Back home again for a while
I bring the Southern Belle on her first trip to the real Great Southern Land, stopping in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney.

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Nov 2006  
Portugal: Coimbra and Luso
A weekend for reflection in Buçaco National Park.

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Aug-Sep 2006  
England and Norway
Two weddings in four days, the chance to finally get to the Norfolk village my Grandad was born in and my second fortunate encounter with the Northern Lights.

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Jun 2006  
Germany: Stuttgart and Cologne
Sampling a little of the atmosphere of the 2006 soccer World Cup. A tense draw with Croatia in the their final group game meant the Australian dream continues into the knockout phases.

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Apr 2006  
Austria and Slovakia: Vienna and Bratislava
Erkki, Katie and I head east for Easter to visit Maria.

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Jan 2006  
Italy: Cinque Terre
A birthday trip to the Italian coast.

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Dec 05-Jan 06  
United States: Boston and Memphis
My first Christmas away from home. I'd never really planned to ever go to Seppo-land, but then this Aussie Yobbo met a Southern Belle and everything changed.

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Aug 2005  
Germany: Schloss Neuschwanstein
A childhood dream realised, visiting the fairytale castle immortalised in one of our jigsaw puzzles.

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Dec 04-Feb 05  
Australia: Back home for a while
Andrew and Kathleen's wedding brought me back to Hobart and Sydney for time to recharge the batteries before heading back out to the great unknown.

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Nov-Dec 2004  
Morocco
Carpets, Roman ruins, carpets, the tanneries of Fes, carpets, camel trekking in the Sahara, carpets and snake charmers in Marrakech. Oh, and did I mention the carpets?

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Nov 2004  
Turkey
The next stop on my magic carpet ride. Hello from Troy, from Troy (hee hee hee!).

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Oct 2004  
Ireland: Dublin and Belfast
My 'chase the warmth' strategy coming into the Northern Hemisphere winter took a slight detour. International Rules in Dublin (Ireland v Australia in a hybrid Gaelic/Australian Football tussle), a Scandi Contiki mini-get-together and a day tour to Belfast (a city I've always had a somewhat morbid fascination about).

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Sep-Oct 2004  
Southern Spain and Portugal
My first real exploration of the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal in particular totally won me over, as it's unpretentious, relatively cheap, run-down in parts without being squalid and complemented by a strange love of bathroom tiling as an exeterior facade for residential apartment terraces.

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Jun-Jul 2000  
Western Europe
My first big overseas trip. A European appetiser of as much as I could possibly cram into a month.

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