The plan for today was to have a low-pressure day, which is pretty much what happened. The electrical system in the bathroom finally gave up the ghost (wire worked loose from the breaker was Jono’s guess), so the showering process…

It took me a couple of hours to get back to sleep after reading The Work Email, and then my alarm woke me 45 minutes later, in accordance with The Plan. ~sigh~ Getting into Zurich and onto a train to…

The plan for Tuesday is a trip to Lucerne, or more accurately through Lucerne, to go up a mountain in a cogwheel train from Alpnachstadt. Or something like that. I’m leaving the rest of the place names out for now,…

They really like church bells here. A lot. The double-glazing takes out a bunch of it, but there’re a lot of bells out there. Not a lot happened today; Jono & I went into … place starting with an ‘H’…

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…