The Cyber Gypsy

What Winter

Dom Reid — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:24:20 +0000

Whilst roasting in the Tooting Bec Lido sauna the other day someone referred to the current weather as a heat wave. The water, hovering at 5 degrees seems to some to be a balmy bath compared to what it could be at this time of year, so people wander about virtually naked but for a [...]

Cold Water

Dom Reid — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:00:50 +0000

Tooting Bec Lido is situated in a South London park. It’s huge, is almost two Olympic length pools end to end (100 yards long) and the width of a normal swimming pool. It’s also unheated. The fact that it’s unheated doesn’t deter the good people of London from taking a dip in winter, which is [...]

Amsterdam 28.8.2011

Gregs — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:34:14 +0000

Last night in Amsterdam before I venture too the airport. I have been in Amsterdam or Amsterland as some have coined it for 48 hours wondering around the beautiful 19th tall town house’s that seem to lean out at you and stop at the local themed cafes. Next stop London and then Tokyo. Amsterdam I [...]

English Summer

Dom Reid — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:51:23 +0000

I can’t believe it was the 19th of May that I returned to Blighty, it seems like an age since then. I have done few of the things I had lined up for my return and many of the things I had not, for instance I have only been to one festival though I had [...]

Rolls Royce Qantas Engine Failure

Dom Reid — Sun, 22 May 2011 00:01:58 +0000

When my gorgeous girlfriend gets on a plane I have been known to get a phone call from the cabin. She checks out the safety features, the amount of engines (two can looks pretty thin for such a large plane), she’s a nervous flier and as such keeps an eye on safety to such an [...]

Patpong, Nana plaza, dentist chairs and The Atlanta Hotel!

Dom Reid — Wed, 11 May 2011 07:20:51 +0000

On my way to the airport from Roseville (how lovely Roseville sounds and it is, a leafy flowery suburb of Sydney) I stood on the train platform in the bright, breezy Autumn sun and watched the myna birds pivot on the track-side bushes, the cockatoos flap like rags, rosellas flash and spark in noisy conversation, [...]

Nikon S8100

Dom Reid — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:27:53 +0000

I bought a Nikon S8100 recently to because I had my wonderful little Panasonic Lumix DZ10 stolen in Chile. To be honest the Lumix was on it’s way out anyhow. Mechanically it was perfect, but it had started to collect so much dust behind the lens that photo-shopping every picture for large splodges was becoming [...]

Australia

Dom Reid — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:07:33 +0000

I arrived in Australia and had a little shindig with friends I know in Sydney. The hospitality of the Krasnowskis knows no limits, so Jon, Rob, Sean and Dai all had a great evening out topped off by attempts to play coherent 12 string guitar in Jon’s back garden. I needed that and felt refreshed [...]

Santiago to New Zealand

Dom Reid — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:06:34 +0000

For a last wave at South America Valparaiso was a double edged sword, but certainly an interesting one. I loved the place but should have tucked myself in bed safely after dark, but the alternative certainly leads to an interesting life. The bus ride to Santiago was uneventful, I got to the airport early and [...]

Valparaiso

Dom Reid — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 07:38:30 +0000

Valparaiso is one of those places that defines a country. It is a loud mouth of a city, colourful, unapologetic, it has trade and a good climate that puts Santiago to shame, so much so that I wondered why they didn’t build the capital here (Santiago was built where it was as it was easy [...]