A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts
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Having made it back to the UK, and having been traveling for around seven months, it’s time to stop, replenish the cash reserves somewhat, and see whether I can work out what I want to do next. “It Can Be…
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Progress Report, Week One
Bank Account, in-branch attempt. Nope, an appointment for an interview won’t be until next week, but you can use our online service instead. Bank Account, online attempt. Nope, you’re too much of a risk to grant an account with no…
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Turns Out That It’s NOT A Huge Brick Model Of An Organ; Who Knew?
I’d just always assumed that’s what St. Pancras was; A gigantic Victorian Folly which they’d turned into a railway station. I’m hoping that’s enough warning that this isn’t a particularly serious, content-filled, or indeed coherent post. I’d like to point…
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Iceland Day Six – Walking the City, Midnight Rambling, and a Dead-Eye Flight to London
First thing of the day was to post some postcards. Got the street wrong initially, but it turns out that Pósthússtræti means pretty much what it looks like, and connected to the parallel street where the post office lives. They had…
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Iceland Day Five – Þingvellir, Gullfoss, Haukadalur, and Snow
Today was the Golden Circle tour, one of the ‘must do’ Icelanding things. Or possibly Þings. The instructions were to wait on the doorstep of the hostel between 0800-0830 for pickup; The shuttle van turned up at 0829ish. Thee’d been some…
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Iceland Day Four, Part Two – Hallsgrimskirkja, 14% Protest, Ég þarf insúlín, Misc. Bátar, and Sky Curtains
Today’s thing, because yesterday was a Sunday, was Hallsgrimskirkja, seen here lurking behind a tree. For all that it looks like the figurehead of a ship in that shot, the statue isn’t connected to the church; It’s a statue of …
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Iceland Day Four, Part One – Rain, Boats, Ranting, And Icelandic Graffiti
First, a picture of the wee courtyard where the kitchen lives. The block that the hostel is on is built hollow, or at least this bit of it is. No idea if that’s a common thing here, though I’ve seen…
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Iceland Day Three
More wandering around today, though I picked a different direction. Found a monument to Civil Disobedience, which seems very Icelandic. And a tiny little park, which I mostly photographed because I could see a particular building and it amused…
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Iceland Day Two Update
The hostel WiFi/Internet Router may be having trouble. I was able to get an internet connection on my phone, but not my tablet, in the evening, and I wasn’t the only one having that trouble. A restart fixed it then,…
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Iceland Day Two – Where does this road go?
The plan had been to get an early start and … well, that didn’t entirely happen. It was earlier than yesterday, so that’s a good thing. On the early start front, the guy from San Francisco had an unpleasantly early flight,…
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