Yet again I’ve had a fantastic time staying in Sydney and managed to pick some apartments with an amazing view. Life has definitely been great although most mornings I’ve taken to sitting and watching the sun spread over the world rather than hit the gym. Continue reading Finishing Up in Sydney
If you had three months to travel – money no object – where would you go and what would you do?
I learn’t a very valuable less on my last holiday. It was that travel for me is not about seeing places, it is about experiencing places. I need time and leisure and friends and memories. I need to be part of the activity of a place.
And that makes fitting all I’d like to do in three months of travel quite difficult.
While we are sticking with three’s I might just pick three locations. Costa Rica and my sloth brothers, a small slice of South America for some rain forests and wine and my love of cycling in Europe.
I’m a little worried that I’ve turned into a Sydney local overnight. Twice today I was asked for directions. Sure, one of those times I had no idea but the other I knew!
For reference the Hilton Sydney is at 488 George St (but there’s parking off Pitt St as well for us Sydney locals 😉 ) and Rockpool Bar & Grill is just around the corner from my work and can be found at the corner of Hunter and Bligh.
I even found the Hilton on my walk back home so I’ve locked that one into the memory bank.
I have a large number of goals this year. They’re possibly spiraling out of control. And there are a couple that I don’t know how to achieve yet. One of those goals was to increase my knowledge around the  oil and gas industry. I’d had a look around at the time of setting my goals and nothing had turned up of interest on the MOOC sites I’d checked. Living in Perth I figured there would be some good summary classes that I might be able to pay for at a local university but those seemed more targeted at specific course areas. I left the goal and moved on.
So when an email “New Stanford Online Learning Opportunities!” lobbed into my account I was pleasantly surprised to see a course on Reservoir Geomechanics.
Sometimes living in hotels is not all bad. Here’s a series of shots, mainly from my window of my room, showing that the view can be really quite nice.
