Andrew and Cath's Grand Adventures

Author: Andrew Reilly

  • A day of two halves

    A day of two halves

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    I did a last-minute check of the flight bookings just before leaving Sydney, and was disturbed to discover that the booking reference for the return flight from Svalbard to Tromsø was giving an error. I didn’t have time to investigate then, resolving to figure it out as soon as we were settled in Berlin. Today…

  • Sightseeing Mitte

    Sightseeing Mitte

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    (Very) slow start to the day today: slept in until what turned out to be about 9AM: it was still dark as the inside of a cow. Strange: sunrise should have happened around 7:30. Is it that dark from clouds? No – it transpires that the hotel has a system of storm shutters which serve…

  • Made it to Berlin

    Made it to Berlin

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    Plane to Singapore, plane to London, bus to Terminal 5 Heathrow, (bonus bag searches for both of us at security made us wonder if we’d make our connection, but we did) plane to BER, FEX (fast) train to just outside town (thanks to the nice lady who helped us buy tickets quickly as the train…

  • One week to blast-off: new server

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    As I was writing the previous entry, our trusty server that has been hosting this blog started to get (to use a technical term) flaky. It kept spontaneously shutting down, sometimes after only a couple of hours of uptime. Shutting down? No, not quite. Just hanging. On, but none of the lights blinking, no network…

  • Northern Lights – second approach – clock ticking

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    Checking that this thing still works. Seems to. The block editor thing is new, but appears to work. If you look down towards the bottom of the Adventures page, you’ll see one called “Northern Lights”, almost exactly ten years ago. We’re not going to exactly retrace those steps, but we’ll be visiting a couple of…

  • Nope, didn’t like those

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    I didn’t really warm to either 2022 or 2023 themes, and didn’t have enough time to figure out how to personalize them to make them any nicer. Just upgraded to the 2024 theme, and while it threw me by having a bunch of front-page sections that I didn’t want, those were easy enough to delete,…

  • Getting ahead of the game: changed theme early

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    I noticed that the security status was having a whinge about unused themes, and that turned out to be because there was a new one. Since I never really warmed to the previous one (a little to sparse, IMO), I’ve jumped right onto the new one (next years’). Seems a bit fancy, in that it…

  • Moved

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    Just a single letter difference in the URL: we’ve moved from the top-level ccTLD for the Pacific island nation of Niue, .nu to the island continent of Australia .au. The former was always a bit of a semantic stretch, and was set up at a time when it appeared that doing so was supporting internet…

  • Back on the air..

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    Broadcasting live from a new address block, in a different house with a different internet connection. Normal transmission appears to have resumed. Any discrepancies with reality are therefore probably your own problem.

  • Another upgrade, another deprecated theme

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    This morning’s software maintenance upgraded WordPress. Had to poke around on Google to figure out why my site had vanished, and what to do about it. Nothing dramatic: database upgrade. Good, there everything was, in the admin panel. Nope: the old theme had been deprecated too, so I had to choose another. Might as well…