Category: Travel
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As you may have gathered from some of my posts earlier in the month, this year I was invited by the folks at YOW! Conferences to come along on the tour as part of the team. I introduced the opening and closing keynotes in each city, hosted a track in Brisbane, and helped fill in…
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Day trip to North Stradbroke Island! Lovely day for it. Rodd even did today’s Advent of Code from the beach. ❤️☀️🏖️⛴️
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Having a great time so far at YOW 2024 Melbourne, catching up with friends and learning from some amazing speakers.
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So many trips to document! After a quiet January settling back in Sydney, in February I headed to Singapore to help deliver the opening and closing keynotes for AWS Innovate AIML edition. I headed into the office to meet with a few colleagues. The view is pretty nice… For the keynotes, we were going to…
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It’s the last day of 2022, and we’ve been home in Australia for two weeks now. It feels… truly surreal. For the last month or so in Europe, I kept having conversations with people who either A) didn’t realise we were moving back to Australia or B) thought we’d already left. For the record, the…
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One of my goals before leaving Munich was to hit as many Christmas markets as possible before leaving. We had been to the Munich Residenz Weihnachtsmarkt and the Köln Hafenweihnachsmarkt when we visited in November 2019, but all Christmas markets were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. And even though I knew…
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At the end of November I had a couple work commitments a week apart in Paris and Luxembourg, so we decided to combine them into a single trip – the last and biggest of our time in Europe. (I suspect it’ll also be the longest blog post!) ❤️ We kicked off with a very early…
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Back in October, I was very honoured to be invited by some of my friends in the DACH (aka Germany, Austria, Switzerland) tech community to be the keynote speaker for AWS Community Day 2022. This was going to be their first time back in person after two years of virtual events, and I was very…
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Beer is expensive and pretzels are disappointing, but some things are definitely better in Australia. ☕️ 🥭
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When we got our apartment in Munich, one of the features we were most excited about was its proximity to the Theresienwiese. (We were literally a 5 minute walk to the Bavaria statue.) The Theresienwiese is the big showgrounds (historically it was a meadow) where Oktoberfest happens every year… except, of course, it didn’t happen…