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…

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,…

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…

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,…

I don’t know why I bother setting an alarm; I’m always awake 20 minutes before the bloody thing anyway, even if I don’t want to be. Packing up the last of the room went well, as far as I know,…

Today’s big thing was visiting this place, Where I had one of these, It was a pretty slow start to the morning, and I spent a bunch of it sitting in the lobby on the comfy chairs, trying to summon…

I normally avoid map-making panels* at cons for professional reasons, but thought I’d try the one here. This was a mistake, but not for the usual reasons of Really Bad Maps and Really Bad Advice; This one was just Really…

A bit of a mixed bag on today’s events. Kids With Jobs, talking about the need to get YA protagonists away from Family & Mentors, unless you want to end up writing a school story. The panel spent a lot…

I started this con in the usual manner, by waking up too early & being unable to get back to sleep. I killed some time responding to, or at least reading, the pertinent bits of yesterday’s email barrage, most of…

So, what to do with my first day in Dublin? Based on my wanderings last night, it looks like the hotel was being entirely honest when they said that the City Centre was walking distance away, so that’ll help. I’m…