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After the relative disappointment that was The Euro, it was a pleasure to bounce back and experience a top notch restaurant like Alchemy so soon afterwards.  Jen and I had long made plans to visit this eatery on a couple of occasions before but for one reason or another, they always fell through.  Celebrating Jen’s birthday in early September provided ...

As some of you may or may not know my band did a short 2-week tour of South East Asia over the summer. We filmed a whole bunch of our shenanigans whilst over there and compiled a short film of sorts of our exploits. I figured that seeing as everyone who blogs on this site (as well as I’m sure ...

THE COMPETITION The Rugby World Cup is the official IRB competition that crowns the best rugby nation in the world.  Hosted every four years, it is the biggest sporting event to be held in 2011 and is kind of a big deal.  This year’s competition will be hosted by New Zealand.  This will be the sixth iteration of the tournament ...

DISTILLERY Macallan TYPE Single Malt ALCOHOL 40% REGION Highland COLOR Glorious amber NOSE Strong scent of butterscotch. PALATE A pleasingly warm, full bodied flavour evoking toffee, vanilla treacle and spongecake.  Takes you away to a happy place filled with memories of summer holidays…basking in the warmth of the sun.  It took a second glass to reach that conclusion however. FINISH ...

Star Wars makes its long anticipated release on Blu Ray this week.  And has now become the tradition with the launch of Star Wars on a new format, George Lucas has tinkered with the film by adding a slew of new visual and audio effects to the original trilogy.  And once again, they are almost all universally terrible causing fans ...

Earlier this week, Jen and I went to try out The Euro, a popular new brasserie that opened about eighteen months ago as an expansion to Urbane Restaurant.  We were there for a five course Plantaganet dinner where each course was being complimented with a Plantagenet wine.  We had pretty high expectations.  The restaurant rates very highly in the Brisbane ...

DISTILLERY Glen Moray TYPE Single Malt ALCOHOL 40% REGION Speyside COLOR Pale gold NOSE Faint, but sweet aroma of vanilla and butter PALATE Very crisp and sweet. FINISH Not particularly lasting, a lingering note of peat and thats about it SCORE 70 out of 100 NOTES This was the whisky that my work colleagues got me for my birthday this ...

There was a tweet earlier today from Matt that bemoaned Dubai’s predictability in its weather – always hot, humid and sunny.  Not to look a gift horse in the mouth but occasionally I feel the same way with Brisbane.  It’s always at a pleasantly mild twentysomething degrees and since the flood in January, it’s gone back to behaving itself and ...

I had a rather unusually protracted birthday celebration this year as it co-incided with my recent holiday with all the relatives in town.  So Jen and I celebrated a week early, then we celebrated with the family on the actual day and then a few weeks later I caught up with my friends for a drink.  Lastly, for some strange ...

You wait for years for a new show about dinosaurs to turn up and then in September we get two at once.  The BBC are airing Planet Dinosaur, a successor to their famous Walking With Dinosaurs series.  Across the Atlantic, the Discovery Channel are launching Dinosaur Revolution.  Here’s the trailer.  The special effects look a wee bit dodgy but I’m ...