An Introduction

Hello! I suppose I'm the Ambling Oak, which is sounding like a worse blog title every time I say it. But for now it'll suffice, and I can always change it later when all my friends start sending me textual giggles and out-loud laughs about the lameness of my choice. In any case, my name is actually Andrew Whiteoak - see? SEE?! Oak. Actually I've decided it's brilliant and should definitely stay - and, continuing the sentence before the first hyphen (-), I quite enjoy travelling. I also quite enjoy writing. Writing about travelling is quite enjoyable too - almost as much as using the words 'quite' and 'enjoyable' four times each in the last thirty-four words. But enough with the schtik! I'm heading to New Zealand for about a year at the end of this month, and felt like my travel scribblings needed a permanent home, so this is it. In the next few weeks before I leave I'll hopefully finish up and post some (as yet unwritten) writings on Oslo (the world's most expensive city) and Norwich (the world's least genetically diverse city - actually that's mean, I love it).

In the meantime though, I have two other blogs to give you an idea of my style, should you feel intrigued (or just daft) enough to take it look:


ImprovisedNorthAmerica.blogspot.com - This blog charts my journey across North America in March 2009, where all knew when I arrived was my flight to New York and first night's accommodation in Harlem and my flight out of San Francisco just over two weeks later. Half the entries were written on my BlackBerry on the road, while the more lengthy ones were written up once I got back. I managed to head down to Mexico and up to Canada along the way, with a whole heap of excitement and sprinkling stupidity too.

AND

GermanToEnglishWritings.blogspot.com - Don't worry, it's not in German. It's a collection of about 160ish pieces written in the past 12 months based on random word selections from of my German To English dictionary. Some work, some don't, but they're all produced quickly and without a massive amount of editing.

Hope you enjoy some of it,

Andrew.