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On these pages, you will find my rambling notes and thoughts from almost two hundred thousand miles of flights taken from the start of 1985 through to 1997.
It's taken me a while to get this site the way I like it, with flags of all the places I have visited to brighten up the site. At last, we have a few maps showing where I have been.
Of course, there's still plenty of room for improvement, and I will be adding more links, maps and photographs in the future.
If you are looking for a multimedia extravaganza here, you will be disappointed. You won't find any automatic midi files churning out songs you've never heard before and you won't be baffled by frames everywhere you turn. If you want to know where you will go when you click on a link, you can find out without being frustrated by JavaScript telling you it's an active link. However, if you want to know of some of the joys and sorrows of world travel, the excitement and the boredom, then this is the place for you.
Enjoy your visit and come back soon!
Scattered through the pages and the text, you'll find old pictures of the whole family.
Don't miss Matthew's description of Melbourne. Matthew is much older and wiser by now, of course. I have finished writing about our trip back to England at the end of 1995 and back to Vanuatu in 1996.
However, I still haven't written about the huge number of flights I took in 1998 and 1999. Mostly they were between Napier and Auckland and Wellington, though there were some slightly further afield.

Please visit "The Bookshelf", my wife's site of reviews of children's books.

Sites about Vanuatu

• You know you've arrived when they send you to Germany
  
• Edinburgh: More than just a festival
  

• A city for work, a city for love
  
• Home, work, home, work... How much can you take?
  
• To be sure, I paid for the tickets to Ireland
  
• Great pizza in the capital of a great Republic

• Cold weather in the Northeast
• A day spent in Paris is more fun than a week
• Swiss traditions and quaint British customs
• Computers, cabs and curfews
• Homeward bound
• An unusual introduction to Africa
  
• Flight of Angels
  
• From Africa to London and London again
  
• Back in the old routine
  

• New York and Washington again
  
• The largest city on earth, by thunder
  
• Strong winds here, but not much else
  

• An almost perfect trip to the Netherlands
  
• My boss worried when he sent me to Paris again
  
• Serving Mammon and God
  

• Leaving home
  
• The fiftieth state
  
• First days in Paradise
  

• New Zealand...this is just the beginning
  
• Melbourne? But I thought we were going to Bangkok!
  
• Smooth as silk?
  
• Best man, longest journey
  
• The world's most accessible active volcano
  
• An old school-friend in the Lucky Country

• Quaint English traditions in the Pacific
  
• Japan - like nowhere else on earth
  
• A couple of European colonies
  
• It's such a long way home
  
• Crossing the mighty Pacific Ocean
  
• Yes, there still are earthquakes

• Business travel in the islands
  
• Another trip to Geyserland
  
• Naghol: The forerunner of bungee
  
• Time for interviews
  
• Success! A future in Aotearoa
  
• Paradise, Hail and Farewell!
  
• Worldwide service
  
• Can this really be the end?
  
• Four flights in a row

• Do you hear the people sing?
  

• Home for Christmas
  

• From winter to summer
  
• A week is not enough
  
• Third time lucky for Melbourne

• Back across the Tasman
  

• Around the Land of the Long White Cloud (this year - next year - sometime - never)
  

After changes, things are more or less the same.

On our trip to Melbourne, our son Matthew wrote a diary of what we did each day. I have reproduced it here.

British newspapers

List (with links) of airlines I have used ; List of airports I have used

At last! A couple of maps - Europe and USA

A summary table of my flights

The inevitable (but illustrated) links page

...Old entries

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