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Sharm El Sheikh
A second trip to Egypt and a busier time of it this year as we packed in a few visits.
- Originally published: 17 Oct 2006 in Middle East
Mullerthal and Echternach
It’s what you do with it that counts: there’s plenty of countryside to cover in little Luxembourg.
- Originally published: 21 Sep 2009 in Walking
Cake in the Condroz
After a week of very warm weather, there were finally hints of spring: buds on the trees, early bees and even a red squirrel.
- Originally published: 27 Mar 2010 in Walking
Ma Mère
Director: Christophe Honoré France, 2004 Pierre has too much time on his hands. He’s a sullen, truculent, overweaned, morbid youth who spends his inordinate amount of spare time writing miserable prose and pulling faces at his elders. Ma Mère is all about Pierre and it’s as indolent, ignorant and insolent as he is. Based on …
- Originally published: 30 Dec 2006 in Film
Vallée du Samson
Non-stop rain and a long diversion due to hunting: it’s everything an autumn hike in Wallonie can offer!
- Originally published: 11 Oct 2009 in Walking
Stop ACTA!
A privately-negotiated international trade agreement that's anti-sharing, anti-privacy and anti-democratic.
Let's put a stop to ACTA.
Who you gonna call?
Hello, you. I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name as those guys. I'm a user experience consultant, expatriate, traveller, writer and pro cycling enthusiast.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert. I started my website in 2005 and I've been running it ever since.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.


