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A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts

  • This one is sort of a roundup of visiting Perth. The museums are just the bits I mentioned in the title. I came here for no particular reason, other than it being on the same train line as Stirling, finding…

  • Unlike yesterday, it was not a beautiful day with clear bloo skies, but I went anyway. There’s a route which leads a bit more cross-country than the way I went, but I wanted to cross over the bridge even if…

  • It was a beautiful day, and the chap at the breakfast cafe I went to recommended it as being a good day to visit the Wallace Monument. That didn’t happen, because the Castle ate up most of the day. A…

  • For no reason beyond “Never been there, and people mentioned the castle”, I went to Stirling. Turns out to be pretty easy to get to; I could have caught the train as it passed through a station close to my…

  • This time I’m staying out near the airport, where the hotels are cheaper, but the tramline will take you into the city centre easily. Though one of the two catch-ups with folks went late enough that the last tram had…

  • This one’s mostly a photo dump. Aberdeen Beach has a bunch of food trucks/trailers parked along it, though the only one that was open when I went there was a double decker bus turned into a café. You had to…

  • My traditional paranoid room check involved looking under the bed, which answered the question of “how come the shower drains so slowly? are they not clearing the trap?”. Given that the under bed area had an empty water bottle and…

  • I try to do a Big Day/Small Day cycle when traveling, to keep from getting burned out. It doesn’t always work, and it’s not always possible, but when it pays off it means I can better appreciate what I’ve done…

  • I’d previously looked at tours that’d take me out here, but didn’t understand how tourist seasons work, so I just took the Saturday bus from Thurso instead. And thanks to Doktor Hobo, I now have the idea that Thurso is…

  • The hostel dorm was louder last night, not due to people packing up or talking, but due to general sleep noise. Pretty sure the guy in the bunk above me was humming in his sleep, and there was way more…

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