Mark Scott Johnson's Blog

Every journey begins with an early morning train

Day 1. Up at 4 to catch 5 o’clock train to Manchester airport (via the wonderful towns of grindle, haversage and – best of all – edale) Thankfully flight out isoniazid finnair (unlike the return by easyjet) so should help ease some of the early morning grumpiness. Nothing much planned for the day except travel. [...]

Posted at 3:40 AM on June 17, 2010 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Baltic States 2010 | read on

China and DPRK 2008 in Review

Well, I am home now; and as a substitute for a real post, I thought I would some up a few trivial statistics of the trip for posterity: Total distance travelled: 21,929 Km (Air: 18,256 / Train: 3,529 / Ferry: 144) Items lost: 2 (1 pair of jeans and 1 jumper) Photos taken: >4000 (worth keeping: maybe [...]

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My name is Mark Johnson, and I currently live in Sydney, Australia where I spend my working hours as a software development consultant for a company called Readify working freelance as principal consultant of objectiv consulting and my spare time planning my next vacation.

Thanks to a very accommodating employer, I am currently on a lengthy sabbatical in the country of my birth – England – making the most of my time back in Europe to travel when possible.

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