http://www.navitect.com/rovingchimp Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:38:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s true what they say about the travel bug. I think I must have encounted a swarm because I seem to have come out in a rash rather than a single bite. The problem with travelling is that I started to realise how much there is to see and do ... http://www.navitect.com/rovingchimp/?p=4 About the only thing you can plan on when you take a long trip is that plans will change. Sure there were those who had made a book out of every train, plane and bus timetable and were able to organise their trip down to the last minute. That’s until ... http://www.navitect.com/rovingchimp/?p=12 The teams from every renovation and lifestyle television show will be beating a path to your backyard for inspiration when they see the latest Rovingchimp objet d’art proudly on display in your garden. Our agents have been roving the earth to bring you back only the best painted concrete chimp ... http://www.navitect.com/rovingchimp/?p=3 The milestone for the week after the world tour has been getting over the jet lag (I know, I know, my goals seem to have become far more mundane now that I have returned home). It took a few days before the body clock was reset and I stopped waking ... http://www.navitect.com/rovingchimp/?p=43 I know my pair of sunglasses will have done a loop between the Avignon TGV station and the city centre or two on the bus, and my Lonely Planet guidebook for Italy may have headed for the French border after being left behind on the train near Chinque Terra, but ... http://www.navitect.com/rovingchimp/?p=33 That word, reflection, can send shivers down the back of any multimedia student (for those who haven’t studied at UTS, apologies. It is an in joke), but on the night before I head to LA airport for the 14 hour flight back to Syndey, I can’t help but think back ... http://www.navitect.com/rovingchimp/?p=44 How do you gauge happiness? Disney must have the extensive algorithms to work out the happiness quotient because they label Disneyland the happiest place on Earth. I have to admit I haven’t laughed so hard for a long time than when I visited the famous theme park, and its counterpart ... http://www.navitect.com/rovingchimp/?p=32 Every country has its variations on how to drive, but Mexico takes a bit of getting used to. For someone coming from Australia, driving on the right side of the road looks hard enough, but when you have to contend with traffic coming four different sides, pedestrians walking onto the road ... http://www.navitect.com/rovingchimp/?p=14 I flew the French flag from my backpack yesterday. I felt I had to for the tricolours were flying throughout Paris. It was Bastille Day after all. There was the parade along the Champs Elyssee, the motorcade that included French President Jacques Chirac, the Foreign Legion, and the flyover by ... http://www.navitect.com/rovingchimp/?p=45 For years I’ve been staring at a print of Wassily Kandinsky’s Two Green Points on my wall (before I moved everything into storage). In amid the suspended stockings filled with sand, the neon, the totally blue canvasses (oddly enough titled Blue) at Paris’ Pompidou Centre was the real thing: Kandinsky’s ... http://www.navitect.com/rovingchimp/?p=19