CraigBlog

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

  • 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…

  • Back to the Geovation hub to work today, even though I (correctly) expected it to be deader than yesterday. I stopped off at the coffee place from yesterday ( Goswell Road Coffee ) and hung around in there for a…

  • Leaving Salisbury went smoothly; I’d packed everything I possibly could, done the dishes, and even vacuumed the night before, so all I really needed to do was shower, put on the clothes I’d set out the evening before, and go,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

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