Tag: Aylesbury
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Heading Back
Walk to the JW, Taxi to the Airport, Flight to Chicago, Airport Transit to T5, Long-Ass line for Security, Flight to Dublin, Flight to Heathrow, Train into Paddington, Tube to Marylebone, Train to Princes Risborough, Rail Replacement Bus to Aylesbury, Walk to the Travelodge. Gave myself plenty of time with an afternoon flight so I…
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A Brief Stop In Aylesbury
A brief badly planned stop, as it happens. I left Blackpool on the Friday & made it to Aylesbury in pretty good time thanks to a lucky connection at Preston where the train arrived as I got to the appropriate platform. The reason for the trip was a birthday BBQ “Sausage Party” for Becs on…
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Back In Aylesbury, Side Trip To Oxford
When we last spoke, I was leaving Bath & heading back towards Aylesbury on an unevenly-packed train, in what turned out to be a wildly uneventful journey. Most of the reason for a return to Aylesbury is to see friends, though the specific timing is because of a work Company Update in Oxford. ( They’re…
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Back to Aylesbury for a spell
The trip back to Aylesbury from Canterbury was more or less uneventful, and fitted into the middle of a working Thursday. Going to try not to do that again, because it was kind of disruptive, but it worked out. Staying in the guest quarters at Chateau Guineapig while I’m in Aylesbury, as one does when…
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The Traveler’s Tale
I’m expecting to go through a few iterations of the packing scheme before I get it right. Today’s version had the everyday clothing in the low compartment, the stuff I thought I’d need as soon into a hotel room in the very top compartment, and everything else in the middle, as a sort of protection…
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Breakfast At Wetherspoons
Had pre-work breakfast with many of the crowd from last night. The enthusiasm for a pre-work pint had faded, which is, I think, no bad thing. Does it make me a bad person if I want to see what an actual American would think of the Spoons ‘American Breakfast ‘? Pretty sure it does. Maybe…
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Day Two – The Rockwood & The Rain
The traveling kit, version one, is about as packed as it’s going to get. I suspect I’ve got too much electronic stuff, or packed it badly, but we’ll see how it goes. I’m still figuring out how best to distribute things between the three compartments, but I remember that changing multiple times over the course…
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Day One – Pancakes & New Shoes
Slept ok. Better than the admittedly terrible idea of a night on the floor, but I kept waking up from dreams about cleaning, or with a panicked thought that I’d forgotten to clean something or clear out something. I figure that I’ll have plenty of time for hotel breakfast buffets over the course of this…
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Day Zero: Moving Out, Moving On, Moving Slowly & Painfully
( posting this from day one, but let’s not get too concerned about that, shall we ) The last of the furniture went away on day -1, and I’m already regretting this numbering system. I’m also somewhat regretting my decision to make a bed on the floor for the last night; I slept ok, and…