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  • Salisbury

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    It was a very pleasant train ride to Salisbury. Lots of scenic countryside rolling past, and occasional stops in tiny little villages, or at least places which looked like tiny little villages from the train. This place also uses the lockbox with key system for check-in, and had very good instructions for finding the front…

  • Gen Con Event Registration

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    This didn’t go well. I have stuff to do, and games I’m looking forward to, but … it didn’t go well. Starting at the start, over the previous week or so, but mostly in the hours before wishlist submission, trying to come up with a suitable balance of events arranged to take advantage of the…

  • Stonehenge

    Stonehenge

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    I figured it deserves its own post, seeing as how it’s the reason I came to Salisbury The bus trip left from the train station, which is right by where I’m staying, so that was very convenient. I’d picked the bus tour option because it means I didn’t have to pick a time slot to…

  • Esri UK Annual Conference 2023

    Esri UK Annual Conference 2023

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    I’m writing these a bit asynchronously, but hopefully I covered the leg thing when talking about leaving Bournemouth. Short version is that walking was painful but got better over time, and that I was hoping it was a dehydration/exertion thing, because the symptoms were worryingly close to The Great L5S1 Rupture Of 2015. Slept well,…

  • Bournemouth

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    Google Maps, or more specifically the directions part, has no idea what to make of Bournemouth. The streets as perceived by a person on the ground are very different to what it thinks is going on, so it’s directions tended to tell you to go the wrong way. Me, I just followed the mapped route…

  • Back to Aylesbury for a spell

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    The trip back to Aylesbury from Canterbury was more or less uneventful, and fitted into the middle of a working Thursday. Going to try not to do that again, because it was kind of disruptive, but it worked out. Staying in the guest quarters at Chateau Guineapig while I’m in Aylesbury, as one does when…

  • Summing Up Canterbury

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    I’m trying to combine a round-up of all of the other bits of Canterbury, plus some sort of round-up of how the working process went. Let’s see how this goes, shall we? The Roman MuseumDid this on on the Sunday, partially by accident because while I’d planned to go to it, I was just out…

  • A Few Days Of Work

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    The hopefully none of you who’ve been paying attention to the dates of these posts may have noticed that I’ve worked from Canterbury for five days & haven’t said a damn thing about how it went. This is for deep & compelling reasons; I wasn’t sure how to make it interesting. Having given up on…

  • A Canterbury Tale?

    A Canterbury Tale?

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    OK, that was weak, even by my standards. I am, of course, talking about Canterbury Cathedral, which turns out to be tricky to photograph, at least with a smartphone. I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I’d been told the entry price ( still not sure I understand how that works for a functioning cathedral…

  • The Traveler’s Tale

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    I’m expecting to go through a few iterations of the packing scheme before I get it right. Today’s version had the everyday clothing in the low compartment, the stuff I thought I’d need as soon into a hotel room in the very top compartment, and everything else in the middle, as a sort of protection…