Day 04: Lights. Turn on the sound effects. Action
Finally, the day is here. The real reason we are in this fair city. Roger Waters. I’m excited, Mardi is not fussed. It’s just another day for her in New...
Day 03: The pain lingers on
Today we did Central Park proper. We’d read about a number of things before visiting. The Imagine memorial for John Lennon, a sneaky hidden panther statue call Still Hunt, Bethesda...
Day 02: Is there anybody out there
We decided to experience the city from up high, explore the Rockefeller Centre and after dark took the ride up. From high up you get such a different perspective. The...
2010 Washington DC
1 October 2010 For some reason we thought catching a bus at midnight to Washington DC from Manhattan was a good idea. An even better idea, we thought, was to...
Day 01: That space cadet glow
Our first day in Manhattan is a whirlwind. We wake up and have no idea what to do, where to go, or how to get to where we have no...
Day 00: So ya, thought ya, might like to, go to the show
In late 2009 Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) announced a tour of the USA where he would recreate the classic Pink Floyd shows of 1980/81 featuring the seminal album The Wall....
2009 Christchurch
May 2009 As part of my role as CEO of RSPCA ACT I was afforded an opportunity to visit Christchurch and meet with the SPCA, our international counterparts. A delegation...
2006: San Francisco
March 2006 After we finished with animal shelters, we headed back to San Francisco to fly home. We only had a stopover, but used it to its full extent, arriving...
2006: Denver
March 2006 We flew from LA to Denver to visit a couple of modern animal shelters. We'd made quite a few contacts before the conference and firmed up plans for...
2006: Hollywood
March 2006 We took a day after our conference in LA to visit Hollywood. We did all of the usual things people do with limited time. We walked the strip,...
2006: Los Angeles
March 2006 The real purpose for our visit came around after some great learning experiences in San Diego. In LA, we were attending the Humane Society's annual animal welfare conference....
2006: San Diego
March 2006 As part of my role as CEO of RSPCA ACT I was given the unique opportunity to visit America in 2006 and visit a number of animal shelters...
2004: Orlando
June 2004 After playing cricket for almost 25 years and retiring I wanted to get back into sport. I’d loved ten pin bowling my whole life, in fact I’ve bowled...
2000 Sydney: The Olympic City
I was born in Sydney. So when the announcement came in the 1990s that Sydney would be an Olympic City, I was thrilled. I love my sport. See "It's more...
1998: New Delhi: World Cup
14 November to 30 November 1998, World Cup Blind Cricket After two years of planning and a career spanning 20 years, finally, a world cup of blind cricket. The team...
1997 New Delhi, India: Trail Blazing
What an opportunity. I'd been playing blind cricket since the age of 15, 1980 was the first time played. It felt as if I'd spent a life time in the...
1997 Stonehenge: Eerie history
As part of our trip to England, South Africa and India we had an opportunity to take a day trip to Salisbury, Bath and Stonehenge. Stone henge is mindbogglingly surreal....
1997 Bath: Where time stood still
15 August 1997 As part of the trip to Stonehenge, we also stopped off in Bath. The highlight of the day was a visit to the Roman Baths. Still standing...
1997 London: Legendary, for a lot of reasons
July 30 to August 24 1997 We arrived in London to bleak overcast skies. Everyone told me the weather was always miserable. We'd pre arranged accomodation with a couple of...
1997 Cape Town: A contrast
During our stay we are stationed at Timour Hall, the international police association in Cape Town. They say its for our own protection. In a country that has recently supposedly...