Mon, 08 Dec 2003

author Tim	location Carss Park, NSW, Sydney, Australia
posted 00:50 AEDT	section Europe2002/Site News ( all photos )

Back to Reality ( )
OK, so it took me almost two weeks to update the website to say we were home - there's been lots happening! Celebrating my brother Peter's wedding, trying to organise a bedroom, computers, cycling around our new old world and of course meeting up with people.
I know we are still missing a week in France and Belgium back there, that will come soon, as will a tidy up of a lot of things. I'm not sure what will happen with all of this, I'd like to put together a DVD version with more photos and a better interface. Soon. Maybe.
Note also the new Tree-View in the Journal Archives. It's not finished yet but you can play around with it.

But besides that, the Europe 2002/2003 trip has drawn to a close. I'll continue ranting and raving over here, so update your bookmarks accordingly if you are interested. For my first entry, I've started with some excitement about how we were about twenty metres away from up to fifty shots fired and the surrounding chaos with friends yesterday.
We travel around the world for fifteen months with no (safety) problems whatsoever and the first pub we go to back home we have to run away from mad shooters.

author Tim	location Firenze, Tuscany, Italia
posted 12:00 CEST 26/09/2003	section Europe2002/Site News ( all photos )

Quick Updates ( )
Just a quick news flash as we haven't quite got the website fully up to date.
We are in Florence/Firenze right now, have been for two nights and are now leaving on a train, heading to Bolognia.
Longer term plans include heading up to Munich/München for Oktoberfest, then down through Switzerland, all via train.
We have had no more news on the van, only "we will call you when we hear something". As such, we aren't going to hang around, just do things as we see fit, trying to holiday without our home.
Big thanks to the many people who replied interested in our plight of head-gasket problems, with suggestions. The big thing we have learnt since is that it is a new head, not just the gasket. As such, we are basically paying for an entire new engine. It comes with a two year warranty on parts and labour, but yes it is costing us a lot.

author Tim	location St. Pauli, Hamburg, Deutschland
posted 13:12 CEST	section Europe2002/Site News ( all photos )

Site Updates ( )
At long last, we have put something of interest on the Rosie page (also linked in the header above). Have a look at our "home" in the big red combi bus.
Also, we have done something right out of the ordinary and made some plans! Read about our current attempts to fit in everything we want to see before going home on the Itinerary / Photos page.

author Tim	location Cricklewood, London, England
posted 22:32 BST	section Europe2002/Site News ( all photos )

Turkey Finished!! ( )
Many thanks to Liz for getting around to putting the finishing touches on our Turkey Journal, which, almost exactly one month after we have returned we can call complete!
Find it all either with that link just above or by scrolling down the page.
Also, we have again made slightly more accurate plans in the Itinerary section.

author Tim	location Spitalfields, London, England
posted 09:22 BST	section Europe2002/Site News ( all photos )

Turkey and Itinerary Updated ( )
Like the heading says, Liz has been hard at work getting the ANZAC Day online, and it's now to be found below!
You can also use this link to see all the Turkey entries in one go.
Also, we have made slightly more accurate plans in the Itinerary section.

author Tim	location Spitalfields, London, England
posted 16:40 BST	section Europe2002/Site News ( all photos )

Turkey Updates tricking in ( )
Over the long weekend Liz has done quite a bit of work on her (book) Journal, and some of that is starting to be duplicated here.
It's filed under the date it refers to, which means you'll have to scroll down the page to find it.
More as we get a chance!

author Tim	location Spittalfields, London, England
posted 19:33 GMT	section Europe2002/Site News ( all photos )

Brief Update ( )
Quick update, just go upload the only Dutch news we've had chance to do yet. Also, there are plenty of photos but I haven't had time to put them on the website.
As a summary:

• We are back in London safely, complete with van.
• We still aim to go to Turkey. Yes we are concerned. Yes we will be careful. Yes we know all the dangers but are comfortable with the fact that the Australian government is encouraging people to go, and sending plenty of secret police. I hope people can respect this.

author Tim	location Spittalfields, London, England
posted 13:07 GMT	section Europe2002/Site News ( all photos )

2000 Hits ( )
By the time you read this, that little hit counter above should have hit two thousand! Sure, to a big site that's not much at all, but for a little log of our adventures around the world, that means a lot of people have logged on to have a look at what we are doing.
Thanks very much to everyone for tuning in, it makes it worthwhile when we know someone is listening to us blather on!

author Tim	location Spittalfields, London, England
posted 18:19 GMT	section Europe2002/Site News ( all photos )

Site News ( )
Updates to the Home In London and Itinerary / Photos pages, including new photos and info about our house.
I've also taken the RSS link out of the header since I didn't explain what it did and most people don't need it. If you're interested, it still should work with this link, and you can learn more about what it does by searching for RSS at Google.

author Tim	location Spittalfields, London, England
posted 10:19 GMT	section Europe2002/Site News ( all photos )

Site News ( )
I've just uploaded a fairly major site update.
In terms of new content, have a look at the Home in London page. A little sparse at the moment, it has however been updated for our new home.
There's lots more behind-the-scenes change to speed it all up and make it easier to maintain.
The URL you want to be accessing this Europe page through is http://www.reverb.com.au/europe/ - please update your bookmarks if you are still using the old page (you will know because the URL will end in .cgi) - this will be removed shortly.
As always, please let me know if you find any strange bugs around the place. Nobody's perfect, myself most definitely included.

author Tim	location Golders Green, Greater London, England
posted 21:06 GMT	section Europe2002/Site News ( all photos )

Site Update ( )
Just a bit of news that you may have worked out by this stage - I've upgraded my weblogging script to a later version, tweaked it a bit and given the site an overhaul.
But why do you care? Well, if you go to the Itinerary / Photos section, you can now see the journal entries from the relevant time as well as the photos.
You can also get straight to all the entries from the current "section" by clicking that long link just above this labelled section. Try the ones further down the page, as this entry is now in the special "Site News" section whereas most other entries are actually attached to the geographic region from which we posted them.
And next to the section, you can click to go straight to the current photos.
There's a few other clever things as well, which I'll make easily accessible as time goes on.

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