All articles from: March, 2006

More on my parasite story

Well, my friend Peter con­firmed it with a dab of vas­el­ine, some patience and good light. I have a bot­fly.
I’ve done a sep­ar­ate page about it here.

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Ouchy Wouchy!

When someone says they want to see you at noon, your mind usu­ally meanders to thoughts of lunches. A salad per­haps, or maybe some pasta. And a beer. Hmmmm… lovely lovely beer.
Not Dr O’Dempsey. Nice bloke though he is, he had an ulterior motive.
You see, since New York I noticed that a mos­quito bite had been getting […]

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Currency exchange when travelling

I’ve often wondered about this — a lot of trav­el­lers take out traveller’s cheques or buy cur­rency from their bank in advance. They often then exchange at banks when abroad.
As a reg­u­lar over­seas trav­el­ler I always felt, but hadn’t really researched prop­erly, that ATM’s and credit card trans­ac­tions were best — in spite of 2% […]

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Shiny new things!

Well… kind of. You won’t see much dif­fer­ence, but I’ve just upgraded the soft­ware for the blog to v2.0.1 — in real­ity it makes the blog a fair bit easier for me to use, but won’t make much of a dif­fer­ence to you except that with a bit of luck you’ll see bet­ter updates. […]

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