Andrew and Cath's Grand Adventures – Page 3 – news and photos by and about us from far-distant lands

Tall primitive-style wood carving of a pregnant woman.

Sightseeing Mitte

Nov 20, 2024

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in Northern Dark 2024, Trip report

(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?…

Afternoon sunlight strikes skyline beneath heavy clouds.

Made it to Berlin

Nov 19, 2024

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Andrew Reilly

in Northern Dark 2024, Trip report

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…

One week to blast-off: new server

Nov 10, 2024

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Andrew Reilly

in Meta, Northern Dark 2024, Trip planning

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…

Northern Lights – second approach – clock ticking

Oct 22, 2024

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Andrew Reilly

in Northern Dark 2024, Trip planning

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.…

Nope, didn’t like those

Nov 14, 2023

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Andrew Reilly

in Meta

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…

Getting ahead of the game: changed theme early

Dec 22, 2022

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Andrew Reilly

in Meta, Other things

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…

Moved

Sep 11, 2022

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Andrew Reilly

in Meta

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…

Back on the air..

Jan 5, 2022

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Andrew Reilly

in Meta, Other things

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

Jul 4, 2020

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Andrew Reilly

in Meta, Other things

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…

Home again, safely

Feb 15, 2020

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Andrew Reilly

in Chile and Antarctica, Trip report

This is just a quick note to say that we have made it back to Sydney safely. The task of transferring and sorting photos from the trip must now begin, and we will have to get down stories of the…