Getting Out There

This blog is dedicated to my adventures in the great outdoors, fishing trips, hiking routes, camping, etc. as well as a collection of thoughts and interests. It’s not all outdoorsy: there’s plenty of politics, work/coding, football and other random rants thoughts I have.

Latest posts

Bike Touring

Taking the bike on V/Line

The adventure starts at the train station!

The best part of travelling throughout Victoria on our regional public transport network — called V/Line — is that your adventure begins at the train station, before you even start pedalling!

Coding and Development

My Hugo blog

How it's all going

How’s it all going?! I chuckled to myself when I wrote that title, because it’s been just a smidgeon under three years since I bashed out brew install hugo and started putting together what would ultimately become the …

Wildlife Rescue

Wildlife rescue

Whilst riding around the east coast of Tasmania in 2023, Danielle and I were shocked by how bad the roadkill situation is in Tasmania. One of the inexorable truths of bicycle touring in a country such as Australia — lots …

Earlier posts

  • Coding and Development

    Dont ever use <B> in HTML... err... Wrong!

    If you’ve ever Google’d the humble HTML <b> tag, and read more than three of the results returned, you’ll have inevitably come across the hordes of self-righteous knobs on StackExchange berating people (especially those …

  • Rants

    Why caravans are “The Enemy”

    When my partner Danielle and I are out riding our bikes, we have a few shorthand ways to alert each other to various dangers, some of them obvious, some of them little in-jokes known only to us

  • Coding and Development

    Transitioning from Wordpress to Hugo

    I have, for the past few years, run a little personal blog on Wordpress called “Getting Out There”. Over the years I’ve hosted it at different hosts and domains, and added to it much the same as one might build extra …

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Latest tours

  • Australia
  • Victoria

29–30 Mar 2024

East Gippsland Rail Trail

A quick-and-dirty Easter tour through the rolling Gippsland hills to the Snowy River.

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7–19 Dec 2023

Tasmania

Riding from Devonport to Hobart via the east coast of Tasmania in the summer of 2023.

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Currently reading

The Return: Fathers, sons and the land in between

by Hisham Matar

67% page 189 of 280

In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar’s father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to have been held in the regime’s most notorious prison. Now, the prisons are empty and little hope remains that Jaballah Matar will be found alive. Yet, as the author writes, hope is “persistent and cunning.” This book is a profoundly moving family memoir, a brilliant and affecting portrait of a country and a people on the cusp of immense change, and a disturbing and timeless depiction of the monstrous nature of absolute power.

Publisher’s blurb

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