Lucerne

Lucerne

We wake up a little hungover and a lot tired and head down for an early buffet breakfast of Nutella and danishes. We hop on the coach for a 9 hour drive from Paris to Lucerne, Switzerland. Most people fell asleep straight away, but as I can’t sleep during the day I was painfully awake the entire way. A couple […]

Paris

Paris

We wake up at 6am, quickly get ready and pack and head down stairs to join our group and start our 21 day long Contiki trip. We get on the bus which will become our home for the next 3 weeks. The seats are quite comfy and spacious, with good air conditioning, power points, tv screen and more. We drive […]

Paris Part Two

Paris Part Two

We awake at eight to get our continental breakfast at the hotel. We were warned on the way to France that Parisians classify a single croissant, a coffee and a cigarette as a superb breakfast so I wasn’t expecting much. Instead, our Tour Manager was just managing our expectations (something I should be familiar by now) by under-promising and over […]

London

London

We arrive at Heathrow and hop on the ‘tube’. Meanwhile there is a heatwave going through London, the hottest summer on record for 6 years. Colin had been drinking coffee on the plane, trying to stay awake because he was unable to fall asleep. So, not so unexpectedly, Colin wearing plane clothes (jumpers, jeans etc), dehydrated and in a hotbox […]

Passports & Dramas

Passports & Dramas

Forget Toddlers & Tiaras, we are experiencing our own reality tv show. Our flight to London is a multi-stage journey, starting with a domestic flight Brisbane to Melbourne, and international flight to Abu Dhabi and then finally a flight to Heathrow Airport. When we arrive at the Brisbane airport, we hand over our passports to check in & get our […]

Euro Trip

Euro Trip

My friend Colin (also know as SP) are about to embark on a one month Euro-Trip! We are travelling with Contiki for the first 21 days and then staying in Amsterdam for the remainder. Below is a quick itinerary of what we hope to do on this epic journey. Only time will tell if this trip can top Vegas & […]

AWS S3 Command Line Bucket File Upload in C#

I generate full-size backups of my database every night, but they just collect dust on my production server taking up space. Not only that, but if I lost the server, the backups would be gone to, so I wanted to investigate some options. I have recently moved my servers and database to Amazon Web Services and really enjoying the value […]

Universal Studios

Universal Studios

Flying back to LA from Vegas was pretty uneventful. I almost missed the plane though because getting through security took so long. When we landed, one of our suitcases was missing! A similar looking one was unclaimed so our first thought was someone picked ours up by mistake. After about 30 minutes of waiting and wondering, we found out that […]