Turns out that one of the advantages of traveling with other people is that they take photos too. Lots of them. Thank You, Steven! Brace Yourselves.   Here are some decent shots of the mirror maze.   As I said…

Plan for the day involved mostly being inside. This worked out well, because it absolutely pissed down. I got noticeably soaked walking two sides of a block while trying to remain under cover. The drains and gutters were not coping.…

In the sad lonely days after Gen Con, I hung around in Indianapolis to go and do the touristy stuff that you don’t do while the convention is on. Most of that tourism was in places where I, at least,…

It was a scorchingly hot day, and I went to the zoo. Where one or two of the animals seemed to have melted. There were some things I didn’t photograph, such as the shark-petting tank, where I was too distracted…

The flight, or flights, to Chicago were … uneventful. Getting to Gatwick was easy, the station even had coloured lines on the floor so you could follow them to the correct location, which in my case was a machine which…

Post-Edinburgh, I caught the Caldonian Sleeper back to London, cunningly using the sleeping time as traveling time, and saving a night of accommodation cost, because I’m clever. Well, a little bit clever; I was still a bit exhausted from sleeping…

Yes, I did go for a ‘close’ pun. I Regret Nothing! Old Edinburgh has closes or wynds, narrow alleys running off the Royal Mile (and a few other roads) to provide access to the buildings behind the frontage, the roads behind those,…