CraigBlog

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

  • This is the last few months of my ‘sabbatical’ – I’m going to a convention in the US, on to NZ via a week in Fiji, then back through the US for two more conventions, and back to the UK.…

  • This was a T20¹ match between England & West Indies, which makes it my first international cricket match. ( But probably not my first international sporting thing, because I’m pretty sure there was an NZ vs. Australia kickboxing thing I…

  • Thanks to the hotel shenanigans, I didn’t get the train I’d intended; Not a big deal. There was one to Rotterdam soon after, so I caught that instead. (the planned one would have taken me to Schiedam Centrum, where there’s…

  • So, the hotel over the train station is very fun, but there was one significant downside. Not the train noise; Even with a window open it just wasn’t that loud. No, the downside is that almost no department could do…

  • My thing for the day was a visit to Keukenhof, which I knew involved flowers, but not a lot else. I’d sort of assumed it was a garden of some kind, and while that’s correct, it’s not entirely correct. The…

  • In one of the many gardens, or parts of the really big garden, there’s this sculpture of a bear. Possibly a steampunk bear? And it reminded me of this poem by Richard Brautigan; All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving…

  • I had a day where I didn’t feel like doing anything big, so instead I took one of the (free) ferries out to the west a bit, to see what was out there. Turns out to be the NDSM Cultural…

  • Something shifted in the vibe of the hostel, or maybe just the dorm, and I’d been having trouble sleeping. One bad night isn’t too bad, but two, with added total obliviousness from the previously OK residents, and I hit my…

  • The Microbe Zoo (Artis Micropia) was recommended to me by somebody on the PillowFort social media community, and I’m really glad they did because it was great fun. I followed the wrong canal initially and ended up taking a very…

  • The sea of orange disappeared by midday. Maybe earlier, but there was little sign of it by midday. I’d gone to bed a a fairly sensible time, I thought, so I went for a walk in the morning, using my…

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