Author: Craig
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Getting There
Well, I slept badly, but that’s to be expected with pre-holiday nerves & a cold of some sort. There were very short lines at the Aer Lingus check in, but still, it took a bunch longer than expected. I’m not sure why, but the chap dealing with my check-in had troubles, so did the person…
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Holiday 2023 Officially Begins
Going against almost every packing habit of the last 5 years, most of my stuff is loosely/badly packed in the suitcase so that it’s not mostly empty & so that the British Snacks will have something to keep them from being bashed to fragments on the trip. The only things in the carry on are…
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Ten Days In Aberdeen
Folks at work have referred to my travels as a tour of Dying British Seaside Towns, and they maybe have a point. Bournemouth clearly has had better days, and Blackpool is less ‘faded glory’ and more ‘decaying remnants’, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that Aberdeen isn’t the crumbling industrial wasteland it was described…
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A Brief Stop In Aylesbury
A brief badly planned stop, as it happens. I left Blackpool on the Friday & made it to Aylesbury in pretty good time thanks to a lucky connection at Preston where the train arrived as I got to the appropriate platform. The reason for the trip was a birthday BBQ “Sausage Party” for Becs on…
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Three Weeks In Blackpool
The idea that I’m going to do a day by day account of my time in a Digital Nomad Co-working/Co-living space is just as appalling to me as it no doubt is to you, so let’s all agree to set that idea aside right now. This is going to be a bunch of images, with…
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Back In Aylesbury, Side Trip To Oxford
When we last spoke, I was leaving Bath & heading back towards Aylesbury on an unevenly-packed train, in what turned out to be a wildly uneventful journey. Most of the reason for a return to Aylesbury is to see friends, though the specific timing is because of a work Company Update in Oxford. ( They’re…
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A Day In Oxford
Where to start? And when will it end? I’ll be blunt; I had a bad day in Oxford. Made the best of it, but it wasn’t a good day for me, despite carefully worded dissembling when asked about it by various management team folks. Mostly it was the crush of people & the wall of…
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Clambering Out Of The Bath
OK, not my best work. I’m probably tempting fate by saying this, but my packing process feels like it’s getting faster. Some of that will be because of the things which never made it out of the bag(s) in the first place, but I’m thinking that a bunch of it is due to having a…
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Visiting The Baths, In Bath, As Recounted By Someone In A Bath
There was a bottle of prosecco in the fridge, next to the milk. There’s a bath. I’m in Bath. I’ve visited the historic Roman baths in Bath. Where else could I possibly post from? I took no pictures of my bath¹. You’re welcome. I enjoyed the Roman Bath … tour? Walkabout? It’s set up to…
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Bath – Sunday to Friday
The trip here was uneventful, but mostly because I boarded the train as soon as I could & got a seat. Not everyone did, because it was full of folks going to Penzance whose train was supposed to be leaving from Paddington, but was instead leaving from Reading. I don’t know why. Anyway, I had…