CraigBlog

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

  • There’s not a sane chronology to this one, it’s more impressionistic or categorical; I like to think of it as being like a Van Gogh piece if he had a camera and no talent. Friday was a ‘wandering around’ day.…

  • It turned out that a friend from pre-Covid Esri UK days was going to be working in Rotterdam the day I was passing through, so we arranged a meeting spot which turned out to be really easy to find; The…

  • Ferry to the Netherlands again; This time I’m spending a smidge over a week in Amsterdam. I could have come up with an itinerary to do more than one city, but … I didn’t want to? Moving between locations is…

  • It was Good Friday, and the weather was nice, so some friends who care about cricket went to Lord’s to watch a match. Or maybe the first day of a longer match; I’m not sure, the ticket is unspecific, and…

  • Years ago, in a hostel in Edinburgh, an astonishingly annoying guy¹ stated that he couldn’t understand why anyone would want to travel, or go anywhere else, because you could find anything in the world in Manchester. At the time, I…

  • Last full day in Aberystwyth, so I decided to ride the Vale of Rheidol railway. I’d originally intended to go on the 10:00 trip, but at some point I’d turned my alarm off, and by the time I woke up…

  • Buying a ticket for the cliff railway took a while, not because their systems are slow, but because a group of indeterminate size took forever to buy tickets. They were clearly from somewhere in Europe, but their English skills were…

  • Look, I’m going to be making a lot of references to the TV show The Prisoner in this post, because this is where the outside scenes were shot. So if there’s something that makes even less sense than usual, that’s…

  • I have many reasons for visiting Shrewsbury, but they’re not wildly sensible? I’ve read & re-read a bunch of novels set in & around the town, and there’s a NZ biscuit named after it. If you’ve been following this blog…

  • This one is sort of a roundup of visiting Perth. The museums are just the bits I mentioned in the title. I came here for no particular reason, other than it being on the same train line as Stirling, finding…

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