So, what's new?

It's been two years since I last posted. What's new? I have... • Bought a new house • Got engaged • Visited some cool new countries • Filled my passport • Taken some exams and am on the way to being a qualified Chartered Tax Accountant • Damaged my ankle and have been unable to play football for nine months • Kept up with the gym in the meantime • Tried a couple of new blogging platforms and have come to accept that I am far too lazy and will never stick to writing as much as I'd like Maybe 2016 will see me rectify fix the last item in that...

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Istanbul, Turkey - Day Two

True to form, it's taken me a little longer to get around to posting day two of our trip to Turkey. Sorry about that. Day two essentially revolved around a quest to find one food that we were desperate to try in Turkey - falafel. Whilst Falafel isn't your stereotypical Turkish dish (it isn't on the menu in a lot of the restaurants we visited) we figured that the middle-eastern community would have a few decent restaurants in Istanbul...

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Istanbul, Turkey - Day Zero & Day One

So, things didn't quite turned out as we planned. Plans to head to Croatia for some summer sun were replaced by a late summer trip to Istanbul. I certainly wasn't disappointed! The Blue Mosque by night We had a total of four days in Istanbul after finding some bargain flights online with Turkish Airlines (£120 pp return from Gatwick). It turned out that this amount of time was probably about right for us. We perhaps could've had one more day...

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Holidays 2013

This year is shaping up to be a good year in terms of holidays. Fortunately, due to a number of changes with my contract in work, it's looking like I'll be getting an annual entitlement of 28 days for the leave year 2013 (which starts on 1st April 2013 and runs until 31st March 2014). This is in addition to rolling forward 8 days from 2012 which leaves me with 36 days for the year! Earlier this year, my girlfriend surprised me with a trip to Dortmund...

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Cloud Music

I've been a subscriber to iTunes Match, Apple's online music hosting/streaming service (for want of a better moniker) for a year now and my subscription is up for renewal a week or so before Christmas. For anyone who has never heard of iTunes Match, the service essentially offers you the ability to listen to all your music from any Apple device regardless of whether that music is synced to the device. The only caveat being that...

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Nexus 4

Decided to upgrade from my iPhone 4S to a Nexus 4 today. Estimated ship time of 1-2 weeks - I can't wait to get my grubby mitts on it!  &nb...

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Holiday Idea #2

Burma. And more specifically Bagan.    &nb...

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Species extinction

Since my last blog post, I've been thinking and reading more and more about different types of endangered species. It depresses me to think about the massive expansion of the human population across the planet and the complete disregard for any other species. I stumbled across this article today and started to read more about the big cats; jaguars, leopards, tigers and lions. Perhaps my recent holiday to Tanzania has sparked...

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Tigers of India

I'm just watching a program on the BBC about the tigers of Ranthambore National Park, India, a place I visited around eighteen months ago. It's sad to see how so few tigers survive in the wild. I'd imagine if you were to conduct a poll, few would know that there are less than 3,500 surviving in the world. Take a look at the image below, yellow shows the historic roaming range of tigers, the green shows the current day range. If...

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Central America 2013

Planning a trip to Central America next year. Top of the list of destinations to visit are the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza, Mexico and Tikal, Guatemala. Is would mean I've chalked off four of the New Seven Wonders of The World. I love planning future trips! Chichen Itza Tikal Posted with Blogs...

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