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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…
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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),…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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What happens in Vegas..
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Cirque Du Soleil
Before heading to the show, we stopped at one of the bars at Treasure Island hotel. It was free to enter so we sat at the bar. I got a ‘Pain Killer’ as I was still sore from working at the Tobacco Plus Expo that had a mix of alcohol and coconut. It had a…
