Moomin Valley

We are still waiting for the Aura venture funds to report, but I am guessing their values will be unchanged. So, now we can compute reasonab...

As Ramit's Conscious Spending Plan says that we aren't doing enough "guilt-free spending", I booked a trip to Queensland ...

So far it looks like the "old" more systematic model won today. US stocks are down. I'm not trading as I was flying to Japan a...

It is always a slow process to get the accounts together at the end of June as it is the end of the financial year in Australia and data on ...

I am now in Spain, where I arrived yesterday. I have never been here before but it feels very familiar as an amalgam of places I have been...

Doing the accounts for March this morning... Looks like we hit a net worth of $A600k for the first time, partly because of the fall in the A...

I'm planning a trip next month to a neighboring country and just realized I will hit 1 million kilometres of flying during my flight the...

Third post in this series : 1996-2002: 2007-Present: The most noticeable thing about these pictures I think is the sunshine :) It's not ...

Street scenes from the other side of the ocean: 1990-1991: 1991-1992: 1992-1993: 1995-1996: 2002-2007: Yes, when I was in grad school I end...

I was inspired by these posts to put up some pictures of places I used to live. The difference in my case is that they all look much the sa...

Seems like it was hard to get both Yoyo and the Hollywood sign in focus.

I was just invited to come and talk in Rome. But I turned it down. I think I will have done enough traveling for the year and I don't f...

When http://moominhouse.blogspot.com/2011/07/yoyo-tackles-korean-food.html">I posted a picture of Yoyo looking at Sushi I said that...

Bibimbap can be served in a sizzling bowl which you are supposed to add soup and hot sauce to complete the preparation. But, then, sometimes...

A bar with a river of alcohol! The traditional Korean drink makoli to be precise: This was in the Sinchon neighborhood. You can drink as mu...

We found lots of attractions and places to eat in Seoul by following a guidebook that Snork Maiden bought at Hong Kong airport. First she ha...

At this place, in the Sinchon neighborhood, the staff cook your food in a big pan built into your table. It is supposedly chicken, but was m...

Namdaemun (Nan da men in modern Mandarin Chinese - South Great Gate) is a market area in the centre of Seoul. We had lunch one day in a res...

We went to a restaurant in the Insadong neighborhood that claimed to serve "temple food". This meant that the food was vegetaria...

Yoyo takes on a Korean melon: Yes, they are really small. Snork Maiden thought that the skin was edible. I wasn't so sure. Yoyo wasn...