Category: Holiday 2014
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Thursday in Las Vegas
This was a slow day; Hard to wake up, hard to get moving, and the noise & crowds were getting to me more than ever before. There’s a non-zero chance that some level of Con Crud¹ is at play, because I felt cold today; Not outside, but when indoors, it felt cold. Did a few…
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Hit With A Zeppelin Full Of Snooze
The first couple of nights back in NZ, I didn’t sleep so well. Sunday night, however, I must have finally burned through the adrenaline & excitement of Holiday 2014, because I went to bed at 7:30pm-ish, and resurfaced, unwillingly, at 10:30am, with a couple of wakeful periods, one long, one short. “Short” was being woken…
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Taking My Leave
The plan for today was to have a low-pressure day, which is pretty much what happened. The electrical system in the bathroom finally gave up the ghost (wire worked loose from the breaker was Jono’s guess), so the showering process involved a torch balanced in a toilet roll to bounce light off the ceiling. I…
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Cogwheel Trains, Mountains, Ferries, And Birds. Also A Brocken Spectre.
It took me a couple of hours to get back to sleep after reading The Work Email, and then my alarm woke me 45 minutes later, in accordance with The Plan. ~sigh~ Getting into Zurich and onto a train to Lucerne was fairly easy, in that I followed Jono & he knew where the hell…
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Another Quiet Day, Trip Planning, And Some Very Bad News
The plan for Tuesday is a trip to Lucerne, or more accurately through Lucerne, to go up a mountain in a cogwheel train from Alpnachstadt. Or something like that. I’m leaving the rest of the place names out for now, and will hopefully fill them in later, because the chances of me getting them right…
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A Quiet Day, Despite The Church Bells
They really like church bells here. A lot. The double-glazing takes out a bunch of it, but there’re a lot of bells out there. Not a lot happened today; Jono & I went into … place starting with an ‘H’ on the rail line to Zurich … to see Guardians Of The Galaxy, in both…
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Walking In Zurich
There was, initially, a plan to visit a park based on an old landslide which had become vegetated, with the possibility of Bears and Wolves, but this ran hard up against Jono’s need to get rid of furniture, so we went wandering along the river instead, surrounded by the cheap showyness of nature. Also cyclists.…
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London To Zurich – Trains. Trains In The Deep
The Dark, in this case, being the inside of my eyelids. I slept really badly, so I spent a solid amount of the trip asleep, and it took me a while to figure out that the Channel Tunnel had happened, & we were in France; I eventually spotted a motorway sign which told me, mostly…
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Tower Of London, Tower Bridge, And Other Things Involving The Word ‘Tower’
First, and most important, stop of the day was the Tower Of London. Finding the Tower was pretty easy; It’s not like they’ve hidden it, and the throngs of people taking photos of the big stone castle are a bit of a giveaway. I’d arrived nicely in time for a Yeoman Warder tour of, if…
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Longitude, Steampunk, & The Kerberos Club
Today, though at the time of writing it’s actually yesterday, involved a trip to the Greenwich Observatory, primarily because of this; Seen in a slightly more comprehensible form here; It took me a while to get moving in the morning, and I detoured past St. Pancras Station (phone, will you please stop auto-correcting that? it’s…