Nathan and Lucy's Blog

Spectacular Tenerife Scenery

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I think Zoe enjoyed the holiday!

2010-01-18T13:56:00.000Z

Walking in Tenerife with Zoe

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Zoe's First Camping Trip

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Zoe in Paris

2009-08-16T18:50:00.000+01:00

Zoe - the comedy pics

2009-08-16T18:47:00.001+01:00

More Tunisia Pics

2009-04-14T22:24:00.000+01:00

Zoe in Tunisia

2009-04-14T22:23:00.000+01:00

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-24T17:40:00.000Z

Zoe & Daddy have a lie- in

2008-12-21T11:26:00.000Z

Mike's Birthday

2008-12-16T20:30:00.000Z

A family portrait

2008-11-24T11:29:00.000Z

Smiles at last!

2008-11-08T18:24:00.000Z

Passport Photo Time

2008-10-23T18:05:00.001+01:00

We've decided to be super organised and apply for Zoe's passport even though we're not planning any overseas trips imminently.

However, that means getting a suitable photo of Zoe - not the easiest of tasks.
We finally managed it though.

Not happy!

There, there.

Cute !

Success!

It' official...

2008-10-05T12:48:00.000+01:00

Our baby is now an official person: Zoe Mei Handscomb-Williams!

Zoe is officially growing

2008-09-25T09:25:00.001+01:00

Zoe with Aunt Phyl

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Zoe meets the Whites

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Leonardo is curious about our new addition

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Zoe with Dad

2008-09-19T09:47:00.000+01:00

A couple of pics from Grandad.

Mother and child

2008-09-18T15:21:00.000+01:00

Zoe Portraits

2008-09-18T15:17:00.001+01:00

Time to dust off the SLR and get some portraits of Zoe. I think I got some nice ones though I'm yet to a really good pic of her with her eyes open.

Zoe with Momoko

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Zoe's first walk

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Zoe in her first jumper hand knitted by Grandma.

Zoe meets the other Grandparents

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Zoe meets the family

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Zoe on Michael's lap

Aunt Yuki and cousin Dylan admiring the new arrival

Eyes open at last!

Zoe in the sling

2008-09-16T17:35:00.001+01:00

Zoe in a tenokis sling which she seems to like (thanks to Masha and Tim).

Zoe meets Grandad

2008-09-16T17:33:00.002+01:00

Zoe's First Video

2008-09-13T13:57:00.002+01:00

A few clips of Zoe's first day, including rare footage of her with her eyes open.

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Proud dad!

Proud mum!

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Zoe emerges from the birthing pool into the air for the first time.

Safe and sound on mum's tum

A good sleeper (we hope...)

The first bathtime!

Sri Lanka Slideshow

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2007-12-23T09:54:00.000Z

Happy Christmas 2007!

Japan Photos

2007-12-04T08:40:00.000Z

Countries I've Visited

2007-06-22T21:00:00.000+01:00

Came across this fun site - lets you make a map of the countries you've visited.

Here's mine...

create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands

Moo!

2007-04-15T20:33:00.000+01:00

Windsor by Motorbike

2007-04-15T20:20:00.000+01:00

It's just gone Easter when Lucy and I went on our first weekend away on the motorbike. We didn't want to go too far so we went to Windsor. Actually we were staying in Slough thanks to a good lastminute.com deal. Not the most exotic of locations but with the bike we could zoom off to lots of nice places and did some good walks.

Other highlights of the last few weeks included a very enjoyable codebreaking event at the Dana Centre, a stimulating evening opening at the V&A based around animation and several good films (The Namesake which was wonderful and Amazing Grace which quite inspiring). Yesterday we helped spring a surprise party on our neighbor Anders which unusually worked!

Photo Mozaic

2007-03-24T21:33:00.000Z

I've been playing around with the mosiacr website.

Here's a photo mosaic I've made. If you can't work it out stand back from the screen or squint!

2007-03-24T21:31:00.000Z

A Game of Croquet (Mike and Momoko's first!)

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The view from our balcony at Rhinefield on a misty morning.

From New Forest

Controlled burning.

From New Forest

Lunar Eclipse

2007-03-24T21:13:00.001Z

There was a total lunar eclipse across much of Europe on 3rd Mar 2007. And for once we had a clear night.

Midsummer in Winter

2007-03-24T21:00:00.000Z

In case you're wondering about the title, it's referring both to the fact that for at least part of the month it's been almost mid-summer like (particularly when we were in the New Forest at Rhinefield which was very luck). Also because Lucy and I went to see an Indian production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Roundhouse. It was in 8 different languages, had acrobatics, singing and dancing and was quite magical.

As well as regular work I've been involved with a schools project, spending 3 days with a local comprehensive helping them to make their own film about slavery. It's a tough subject and hard to keep them on track but we did get a film out of it.

Lucy and I also went to a great show by Mark Thomas. According to the new Serious Organised Crime and Policing bill, it's now illegal to demonstrate in any way in the vicinity of Parliament without advance permission. Mark Thomas has therefore decided to apply for permission for his own demonstrations - lots of them. It was very funny but with a very serious point that you can now be arrested simply for making a political statement in the wrong place - scary. Read more here.

I've also been to see The Illusionist and Becoming Jane.

I've joined the youtube generation...

2007-02-25T12:02:00.000Z

Yes, I've uploaded my first youtube video! You can take a look here.
I'm not necessarily expecting huge viewing figures but it's interesting to be part of something that is undoubtedly going to change television radically over the next few years.

Please watch and give me a nice rating to help bump me up the charts!

On a more traditional TV note, Lucy and I went to a recording of the Armstrong and Miller show (coming to BBC2 later this year.) Very funny though TV recordings are definitely not as much fun as radio recording on account of the huge amount of faffing around plus you don't actually get to see as much.

Chooks in the snow

2007-02-18T23:00:00.000Z

Science and Snow

2007-02-18T22:56:00.000Z

Since the last posting the weather has continued to veer from icy and snowy (the heaviest fall for 7 years in London apparently) and mild and spring-like (yesterday it was warm enough to eat lunch out in the garden). Obviously something screwy with the weather.

It's been quite a sciency few weeks. At the end of January I went to the scientists meet the media event at the Royal Society (where I met Johnny Ball amongst other luminaries of science!) I've also been to the Boyle Lectures where cosmologist John Barrow and the Astronomer Royal Lord Rees gave a quick rundown of the entire history of the universe.

I also went to a recording of "Mark Watson makes the world substantially better" on Radio 4 which was very good, as was The Last King of Scotland (an excellent film about Idi Amin) and Notes on a Scandal.

This weekend we had Phyl and the family down so never a dull moment! Unfortunately Leo seems a little intmidated by children or perhaps just by large numbers of strangers. Today we went to the Game On exhibition at the Science Museum which was an excellent chance for some techno-nostalgia.

2007-01-28T18:24:00.000Z

We may not have had a white Christmas, but this year did I wake up to a white birthday!

Of course, this meant travel chaos as the whole of London seized up. Fortunately I'd decided to organise the celebrating for friday rather than my birthday itself.

Other highlights of the week were an thought provoking talk about Hyponosis at the Dana centre, seeing Black Book, the new Paul Verhoeven film (lots of sex, violence and a good story), and of course going out for a birthday meal on Friday.

This weekend we went to the excellent, if somewhat creepy, Huntarian museum of surgery. If pickled and dissected organs, diseased skeletons and gruesome surgical instruments tickle your fancy then this is the place!

Porgy and Bess and Megan

2007-01-21T19:56:00.000Z

Last night we went to see Porgy and Bess at the Savoy Theatre. It was a more musical (less operatic) version and worked very well. The singing and dancing were wonderful, with a particularly beautiful version of Summertime. We had seats right at the front row which made the big dance scenes particularly exciting!

Also last week we saw the docudrama Ghosts about chinese migrants in the UK. It was a sad but moving story and definitely made you think about the illegal immigrant communities in the UK. Kilburn High Road is always full of chinese people selling fake DVDs and I'm sure they're all under the control of a gang.

Leonardo is still not going out much, though to be fair most of the week has been pretty unpleasant with some huge storms. The good news is that megan has finally started laying again, albeit erratically. Lets hope Marjorie follows suit!

Perfume...

2007-01-11T21:36:00.000Z

Went to see Perfume on Monday which was actually surprisingly good. A visually sumptuous film that did a pretty good job of stimulating the olfactory senses too! Fortunately it didn't take itself too seriously given that the plot did at certain points get fairly unbelievable.

Tonight went skating at Somerset House with the BBC science department.

Managed not to fall over which was a result!

Leonardo has started venturing outside today so hopefully our days of cat litter tray emptying will soon be over.

More pics from NYE

2007-01-06T16:58:00.000Z

Definitely Suspicious Looking Characters...

2007-01-06T16:55:00.000Z

A Murderous New Year's Eve

2007-01-06T16:48:00.000Z

This year we celebrated New Year's Eve in style - the style being that of the 1890's! It was a murder mystery night set at an archaeological dig near the Tigris River. With the help of some fabrics hung from the ceiling we transformed our living room into an exotic pavillion. A night of bad puns, good food and intense brainwork followed. I won't give away who the murderer was in case you end up doing the same game, but a few of us did manage to work it out.

Our New Family Member...

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Leonardo!

Blogging in Baltimore...

2006-08-15T02:04:00.000+01:00

Ok - I admit, it's been a while since I last updated the blog.
I'll try to post more often... I promise... honest...

I'm now in Baltimore, filming for a new medical series. I'm really enjoying it here. Baltimore is a fun city with a lot to do in a small area. I'm staying in a great apartment right by the harbour and it's great to be based in a city for a decent amount to time to get to know it.

Our apartment (or condo!)

The inner harbour as seen from the apartment

2005-12-07T15:16:00.000Z

Change of Address.

Due to technical difficulties I'm unable to use this site reliably from the far east. I've moved the blog to a new address so future entries will appear there.

Please go to: http://www.travelpod.com/z?u=nathankw&t=asia2005&p=tpod

from now
on.

Thanks

Sapa snaps

2005-12-04T05:14:00.000Z

Women of the Black Hmong minority.

Even the Red Tzao need sunglasses!

Halong Bay Pictures

2005-12-04T04:54:00.000Z

Sunset at Halong Bay

The view from one of the 3000 islands in the bay.

Some of the Junks touring the bay. Our one didn't have sails which are purely there for the photo opportunity!

The intrepid hikers.

Halong Bay, Sapa and some unusual wine.

2005-12-04T04:41:00.000Z

I'm back in Hanoi now after spending 5 days whizzing around 2 of North Vietnam's highlights.

First I went to Halong Bay - a spectacular area as the photos show. The geology is similar to Yangshuo but in the sea. The only way to visit (apart from chartering your own boat) is on a tour. But fortunately the tours here are excellent - well organised, with small groups and fantastic value. Our vessel was a beautiful wooden junk with confortable cabins (better than most hotel rooms I've stayed in.) Crusing around soaking up the view was the perfect way to spend a few days. We also stopped off at some caves and on the second day did some mountain biking, hiking and kayaking. So it wasn't all lazing on the sundeck (though there was some of that too.)

The second night we stayed on Cat Ba island where we met the owner of the Ocean Tours company. He's a real vietnamese entrepreneur - with fingers in lots of pies and big plans for the future. As well as asking us about how he should expand his business, he showed us his collection of Rice Wine. It's a big thing here to take unusual wildlife and stick it in a jar of rice spirit to let the flavours (and special properties) infuse. You see snake and scorpion wine everywhere - for tourists to display on their mantelpieces rather than drink. He also had maggot wine, sea-horse wine and pride of his collection: lion penis wine. We did try some bee wine but left the others well alone.

I returned to Hanoi for just a few hours before setting off on the night train to Sapa, right in the northwest corner of vietnam. This is an area of hill tribes, where each village belongs to a different minority group with its own languange, culture and dress. The landscape is beautiful, covered in rice terraces a bit like Bali. The area is heavily visited now meaning the villagers are well versed in sales techniques. For a large part of the trek we were followed by groups of women selling handicrafts. But much of the rural lifestyle seemed untouched and was fascinating to see.

We spent one night staying in a homestay in one of the villages (basic but comfortable) and trekked about 25km in total.

Now I have a last day in Hanoi before heading south on yet another night train (fortunately they're pretty comfortable) for Hue.

Scooter Heaven (or hell)

2005-11-28T10:30:00.000Z

The Happy Couple (and their family)

2005-11-28T10:28:00.000Z

An Intense Dose of Hanoi

2005-11-28T10:04:00.000Z

Despite having aching feet from tramping round Hanoi, I think I've finally got the energy to have a bash at describing Hanoi. What's extraordinary is the sheer number of people. Hanoi is actually more how I imagined China would be. I didn't think of it at the time but now I realise that one of the reasons China wasn't how I expected was the lack of people. Not that its exactly deserted, but it didn't have that feeling of a seething mass of humanity that I thought it would - at least no the places I went to at least.

Hanoi does have that feeling. It's partly the traffic (almost all of it scooters, plus some bikes and only a few cars) which speeds by in constant chaotic motion. Sometimes the road is so thick with scooters that if you decided to end it all and throw yourself under the wheels of a passing motorbike, you'd be hard pushed to find a space to throw yourself in. As you can imagine, crossing the road in such circumstances is a challenge. There's no point in waiting for what we would think of as a gap. The best way is to find a crowd and then you all move across in unison, letting the traffic part like the Red Sea.

The other thing that contributes I think is that life is very much not lived behind closed doors. The pavements are where people seem to cook, eat, socialise, play games, just about everything except walk! Shops all treat the pavement as an extension of their display space, spilling out right to the curbside. Again, this makes walking around a challenge, but the result is a city so vibrant and full of life that the first evening I was just walking around with a huge smile on my face.

There's tonnes of restaurants of all sorts. I had a nice lunch today in a place which is run by a charity (KOTO - Know One Teach One) that helps to train street kids and other disadvantaged youths in the catering trade so they can get good jobs. The restaurant both raises money and also lets them practice their skills in a real environment - a great idea.

Today I saw most of the sights - nothing that spectacular to be honest. The most interesting (Ho Chi Minh's embalmed body) is away being restored. "Uncle Ho is on holiday" is how it was described to me be a local. But Hanoi is about wandering the streets and soaking up the atmosphere.

Tomorrow I'm heading to Halong Bay to spend the night on a boat so definitely no updates for a few days.

Good Evening Vietnam

2005-11-27T10:47:00.000Z

I've made it to Vietnam after a none too painful journey.
After an last early morning cycle in Yangshuo (photos already posted) I set off for Nanning. My first impressions of Nanning as we drove through the suberbs were of a typical developing-world city dirty, smog-ridden, full of light industry. But when I went for an explore in the centre it couldn't have been more different. It felt just like Tokyo - neon everywhere, crowds of fashionably dressed young couples shopping in designer boutiques, McDonalds on every corner.

There was even a WalMart! Looking around the Walmart was a surreal experience: the layout and decor were identical to its American siblings, yet the products on sale were all China. For instance the food section had large tanks of live produce: fish, shrimps, eels, even baby turtles. All destined for the pot, I fear, not the aquarium.

There was more live produce on display at the food market, where you could pick your live sparrow or dove - whether to eat there and then or to take home I wasn't sure. There was also dog on display. They looked just liked the ducks you see hanging in Chinese restaurants in London - all smooth and contorted - but definitely dog. It was almost enough to drive me to McDonalds!

The next day I took the train to the vietnam border. There I hit lucky and met a young vietnamese couple heading back home to Hanoi after their honeymoon in China. We shared a car from the border to the capital where they invited me to meet their family and see their wedding photos - a friendly introduction to Vietnam.

Hanoi is just extraordinary - too overwhelming for me to attempt to describe now. That'll have to wait for my next blog.

In the meantime here are some highlights from the journey:
Best chinglish - "No occupying while stabling" (on the train toilet door)
Best border scam - The 2000 dong medical examination fee you have to pay (needless to say there is no examination)
Strangest import restriction - "No children's toys having negative effects on personality" (from the customs form)
Top Vietnamese Travel Sickness tip - Stick bits of satsuma peel up your nose and let the citrus smells sooth your stomach.

Dawn on the Li River

2005-11-26T01:41:00.000Z

Ills and hills

2005-11-25T10:33:00.000Z

Shortly after writing in my last blog about how great the food was, I was struck with a bad dose of China tum. It was right in the middle of learning how to play Mah Jong ( a game which is actually very simple but seems very complex because of a great deal of ritual and the fact that all the characters are in chinese.) A number of other travel blogs I've seen go into excruciating detail about the authors every movement, but I'll spare you that. Suffice it to say, it was not a pleasant night.

So yesterday I spent taking it very easy. Fortunately it was only a 24-hour bug and today I felt wonderful (the advantage of a short sharp illness being that you feel extra good when you recover.)

Today I made up for lost time by having a great day. I started with a Tai Chi lesson on the roof. Then I cycled to the river, where i (and my bike) took a bamboo boat for a couple of hours of punting through more stunning scenery. Then I climbed the amazing Moon Hill (1200 steps but worth every one) before visiting the water cave, a huge complex of passages that can only be accessed by boat.

The chinese seem to take great delight in finding meanings in natural formations. Thus almost every limestone pinnacle in the landscape has a nickname. Some of them make sense once its pointed out, but others are just ridiculous. For instance there's a hill on the map called 'Grandpa eating an apple'. Not surprisingly I could make out neither grandpa or his apple in the landscape. Similarly, the water cave tour consisted in the guide giving a name to almost every stalagtite and stalagmite in this 4km long cavern. The highlight, however, was the mud pool. Who could resist diving into a pool of liquid mud the consistency of rich chocolate sauce? Certainly not me.

Tomorrow I'm tearing myself away from Yangshuo (plenty of travellers get stuck here for weeks - a couple in the Culture House just left after being here 22 days). For the next few days I'll be travelling south so my next entry will probably be in Vietnam.

Yangshuo sunset

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Water Cave

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Inside the cave things got a little muddy.

One of the few hills you can look through

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Stunning Moon Hill

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Morning Tai Chi with Wei

2005-11-25T10:14:00.000Z

Yangshuo, China

2005-11-23T09:48:00.000Z

It's day two in Yangshuo, the perfect base from which to explore this area of stunning limestone scenery. Yesterday I hired a bike and pedalled round the countryside, today I took a boat trip.I won't bother describing the views since I've hopefully managed to post photos.

One interesting thing about Yangshuo (and probably most tourist spots in China) is that unlike most other developing countries I've visited where the local population seem to show little interest in their own sites, here foreigners are completely outnumbered by chinese tourists. For instance, on the boat trip today there was a guy dressed in full army costume who at first I thought might be keeping an eye on us. In fact he was obviously here for sightseeing and insisted on being photographed in front of every stunning vista (which as you can imagine there are a lot of).

One side effect of this is that although I clearly do pass for chinese, I'm usually viewed as a chinese tourist. So I still get accosted by the touts only they speak to me in chinese. I have to shake my head and mutter that I only speak english, which either gets a bemused look of incomprehension or bouts of hysterical laughter.

I'm eating very well so far in china. No problem being veggie and lots of tasty chinese food. The communal meals served here at the Culture House are particularly yummy. Of course, there are plenty of decidedly non-veggie options for those so inclined. On a menu today I spotted crispy baby sparrow, pigs brain soup (good for the memory apparently), braised duck tongues, fried bee larva or pigs trotters in beef blood. And this was at a restaurant westernised enough to have an english menu. Goodness knows what the really authentical places are like!

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Me and my new friend, the photo loving Red Army captain.

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More stunning scenery on a boat trip on the Li river.

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The Li River runs through the centre of Yangshuo. Everywhere you look in the region, the horizon is carved into these jagged teeth.

Goodbye Guangzhou

2005-11-22T00:32:00.000Z

I've just arrived in Yangshuo on the overnight train. It wasn't at all bad actually. Hard sleeper turned out to be fairly soft. The worst part was actually getting the train - I managed to go to the wrong train station and had a mad dash to get across town in time to catch the train. Fortunately Guangzhou's metro is fantastically efficient. It's so modern that not only do mobiles work down there, they actually have phone charging points in the stations!

My day in Guangzhou was pleasant, visiting museums and temples. I had lunch in an amazing vegetarian restaurant. The menu ran to hundreds of items, bizarrely things like beef, chicken and even pig's kidney and sharks fin. I was beginning to have my doubts about its vegetarianess but a note in the menu assured me that everthing was 100% free of any animal product. It seems giving veggie food meaty descriptions is common in china. The other unique thing about the restaurant was that when I left leaving a small tip on the table, the waitress ran after me to give it back. I tried to indicate that it was for her but she refused to take it. Definitely a first!

I'm now in the very friendly Yanghsuo culture house and off to have breakfast.

Welcome to New China

2005-11-20T11:36:00.000Z

I'm now in Guangzhou, jetlagged but otherwise very well. The journey was pretty good. It started with a stroke of luck: when I checked in I was initially told there were only middle seats left. The idea of 11 hours stuck with neither an aisle or window was grim. But then he suddenly noticed one aisle seat left - I got the last one on the plane. Let's hope that's a good omen.

I didn't hang around in Hong Kong (I'll spend a few days here on the way back) but took a bus straight to the train station and then boarded the express to Guangzhou. The startling thing about the journey was that in between the skyscrapers of HK and the skyscrapers of Guangzhou, you did pass through farmland with peasants out planting rice by hand apparently unchanged from centuries ago. The contrast was striking.

The contrast between Hong Kong and Guangzhou was more subtle. At first it seemed very similar - my first sight on stepping out onto mainland Chinese soil was a McDonalds and an Ikea! However, things aren't quite as they first seem. For instance my first challenge was to get some chinese money. I didn't need much - just the equiavlent of 40pence to get a metro ticket to my hotel. But this took me the best part of an hour. Whereas in Hong Kong you can't move for Bureaux de Change or ATMs, the station in Guangzhou seemed devoid of such facilities, even though it's the main terminus for all visitors from Hong Kong.

Eventually I found a bank, but they didn't change money, and an ATM, but it wouldn't take Mastercard. Eventually I found an ATM that didn't spit my card out in disgust, but the next challenge was that none of the instructions were in English. So I had to play a game of elimination - trying eachsequence of buttons until I eventuall hit the jackpot. Of course the satisfaction in succeeding was wonderful. In the travel book I'm reading, Pico Iyer makes the point that whilst one of the dangers of travelling is that the extraordinary can become mundane, it's also one of the benefits that the mundane can become extraordinary.

I've just had a stroll around Guangzhou which is interesting if not, for the most part, attractive. Anyone who's a fan of the Westway would love it here as there seem to be concrete flyovers just about everywhere. The oldest part is Shamian island which is pretty but suffers the dubious privelidge of being the base for foreign couples adopting chinese babies. Apparently they have to spend about a month here doing all the paperwork and as a results the place is teeming with middle-aged American couples pushing prams with chinese babies. It's really quite surreal.

Because of jetlag I'm feeling fairly zonked so I think I'll try to get some sleep. Tomorrow I take an overnight train to Guilin so I need to get all the sleep I can tonight.

Around Asia in 80 days...

2005-11-18T20:02:00.000Z

Someone Chinese once said something along the lines of a journey of a thousand miles starting with a single step. Similarly, a travel blog starts with a single entry. As yet there's not much to say since I haven't actually left yet, but at least it proves the technology works.

I am now packed, prepared and ready to go. Tomorrow morning I board my flight to Hong Kong, and then on to my first stop in Guangzhou china.

I'm not sure how often I'll be able to update this blog, but I'll do my best. So keep reading and from time to time drop me an email telling me how cold and grim Britain is.

Rough Science

2005-06-25T14:39:00.000+01:00

For the next 6 weeks I'll be in Colorado filming Rough Science.

See the Rough Science Blog for the full story...

Who Should You Vote For?

2005-04-26T22:52:00.000+01:00

If you're wondering who to vote for this election, try the "Who Should You Vote For" website.

This is my result:

	Labour 13
Conservative -47
	Liberal Democrat 58
UK Independence Party -8
	Green 17

Take the test at Who Should You Vote For

Not too much of a surprise for me. Rather more of a surprise for my Labour supporting friends who also came out as closet Lib Dems!

Brazil Photos

2005-04-26T22:48:00.000+01:00

I've finally got round to posting some photos from Brazil (just a tiny collection from the 300 we took - isn't digital photography wonderful!)

For more photos of Yuki's wedding see her blog.

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A payphone in Porto de Galinhas (the Port of Chickens)

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Yuki and Juca are married

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Watch the beautiful game in Recife (Santa Cruz won 3-0)

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A hummingbird on Yuki's balcony

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Baia do Sancho, apparently the third most Beautiful Beach in the World!

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Christ the Redeemer. (And given what people get up to in Rio he must be busy!)

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The Girl on Ipanema!

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The Cable Car to Sugarloaf Mountain

The Editing Room: Abridged Scripts for Movies

2005-01-16T17:39:00.000Z

Can't be bothered to watch all the latest films?

This site is great - it gives you a condensed version of the film capturing the key essence.

The Editing Room: Abridged Scripts for Movies

2005-01-14T23:13:00.000Z

Frosty Day on Hampstead Heath

My Sister's Blog

2005-01-06T21:55:00.000Z

Take a look at my sister's Brazil blog.

Saudades

2005-01-06T21:51:00.000Z

Family Christmas

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The chicken run...

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Cutting the grass

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Tasty!

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Can we come in?

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Having a dust bath

My Old Homepage

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nwilliams.co.uk

Just for reference, here's my old home page.
Not been updated for a while I'm afraid.

Omlet - The art of keeping chickens!

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Omlet | The art of keeping chickens! | Our fantastic chicken house the eglu!

Here's the source for all things chicken!

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Megan's first egg was a double-yolker!

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Megan's first and second eggs and a Henrietta Egg