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

  • I stayed at this hotel a year or so back, during my tour of dying British seaside towns, as the coworkers called it. From memory, I decided on the location, at least in part, because it meant I could take…

  • On Sunday, my last day in Edinburgh, I got a day pass and rode the tram a lot. Went to the airport for absolutely no reason beyond “it was there”, and went to Leith/Newhaven because it’s where the other end…

  • Conveniently close to my hotel is a pub where I can get a cheap breakfast. It’s a Wetherspoons, in an old cinema, so there are even more weird architectural features than the ‘standard’ Spoons location. Here are some attempts to…

  • I’m sure that the trip to the Kelpies is pretty & scenic on a good day, but it wasn’t one, so it was mostly damp but still a bit interesting in places. Took the train out to Falkirk from Edinburgh…

  • The internal layout of the hotel is a bit odd, but I’ve found that with a lot of Travelodges I’ve stayed at. This one has the stairs off the side of the lift lobby, but also has this door to…

  • I went back to Sexy Coffee, to get a sense of just how sexy it is. I think it’s mostly the marble & marble-effect decor, and though the branded coffee cups (and takeaway cups) are distinctive, I wouldn’t call them…

  • On the move again. I had some things I needed to get done in Aylesbury, such as Dental Stuff ( all fine, and they’re happy that nothing bad happened while I was travelling ) & renewing my UK Passport (…

  • I’m not 100% on whether I can or should post other people’s pictures from the day, so for the sake of simplicity, I won’t. And, fair warning, this is going to be a bit rambly and disjointed. Didn’t sleep badly,…

  • It was an early start; Everyone else in the car was heading for Gatwick, but I was flying out of Heathrow because I’d booked later due to being in Thailand, so I was very kindly dropped off along the way.…

  • I left out a few train stations along the way

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