A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts
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In one of the many gardens, or parts of the really big garden, there’s this sculpture of a bear. Possibly a steampunk bear? And it reminded me of this poem by Richard Brautigan; All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving…
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What’s Over There?
I had a day where I didn’t feel like doing anything big, so instead I took one of the (free) ferries out to the west a bit, to see what was out there. Turns out to be the NDSM Cultural…
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Canal Tour & A New Hotel
Something shifted in the vibe of the hostel, or maybe just the dorm, and I’d been having trouble sleeping. One bad night isn’t too bad, but two, with added total obliviousness from the previously OK residents, and I hit my…
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Microbe Zoo
The Microbe Zoo (Artis Micropia) was recommended to me by somebody on the PillowFort social media community, and I’m really glad they did because it was great fun. I followed the wrong canal initially and ended up taking a very…
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Sunday ( which I’m told was the actual Kingsday, but they observed it on Saturday )
The sea of orange disappeared by midday. Maybe earlier, but there was little sign of it by midday. I’d gone to bed a a fairly sensible time, I thought, so I went for a walk in the morning, using my…
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Two Days And A Lot Of Orange
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.…
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To Amsterdam via Rotterdam
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…
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Toot Toot I’m On A Boat – Aylesbury to the Netherlands
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…
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Middlesex v Glamorgan at Lord’s
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…
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42 Hours In Manchester
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…
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