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In 1999, I crossed the border from Turkey into Syria and spent my first night in Aleppo at a hotel with dirty, blood stained sheets, do...

We have a relatively new (2011) timber framed house.  It was built to comply fully with the current New Zealand Building Code and has glass...

While travelling across Turkey towards Syria, we stopped in Cappadocia.  Towns like Goreme and Nevsehir are carved out of the surrounding s...

More hand surgery and more plates and screws to fix the remainder of a very complex problem:  A 30 year old injury and surgery combined wit...

In 1999 I travelled through Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Egypt on busses, boats and trains.  In Turkey, the lira was suffering severe ...

Here's another interesting comparison from thetruesize.com  - New Zealand and South Africa at the same scale: South Africa is ove...

As the UK looks to unhitch itself from the European Union, here is an interesting to-scale comparison of the size of NZ versus the UK and I...