Journey to the Motherland

This is an online account of my three year DPhil undertaken at Oxford University from October 2006 to mid 2009. I will try to remain in email contact with people personally - this is so that I can attach large pictures, movies and anecdotes of the trip. Enjoy!

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From Brisbane to Canberra, from Canberra to Oxford... the temperature is on a downhill run. I hope to be a visiting fellow in Mawson Ice Base next. The programme wouldn’t let me use the Interest categories – what a character. Interests: Cricket(I look forward to seeing the Ashes [from England] in November and [in England] in 2008); writing the great Australian play - the antipodean pinnacle... take that Barry Dickins; Music J.S. Bach - 'Mass in B Minor' without a doubt. Certainly the organ works and concertos for harpsichord form fond favourites. I finally managed to convert all of my Bach CDs to MP3s on my external hardrive (rather than lug the 170 disc set around Oxford - I'll get that money to you later Ross... when Hilary Clinton becomes President and I get a mobile phone.) Anyway, anything by Haydn (I think he cops the rough end of the stick - good symphony times.) Books Hornblower and Captain Blood (there's nothing like adventure on the high seas), Certainly anything by Matthew Riley (7 Ancient Wonders... what a rip snorter), Oh and that book by Dan Brown: Digital Fortress... I will keep people posted as to whether I meet brilliant, young, sexy female code breakers.

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Estonia II - son of Estonia

On a day of sightseeing we came across the following. The above is Alexander Nevsky Cathedral - not Orthodox, (so bowling left arm chinaman then... ah that will go in the book of all time best quotes) but sort of an Evangelical Lutheran two-step. But very nice on the inside... we did not sing there.
A Medieval Church known as: Kiek in der Koch... well, you can imagine what that degenerated into after a few drinks.

Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. More specifically 'Old Town' the... older part of Tallinn, which, like some of the sections of Oxford, is big on the cobblestoning.
I have finished one of the bottles of Ballantines that Rach sent over, I don't really want to pour more whisky out now, so I might pull up stumps and add to the entries tomorrow - there are still stories to tell: E to the C, snow, Helsinki ventures and more.

posted by Tim Trudgian | 11:38 pm

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