Tag: London
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London to Chicago
The hotel didn’t have AC, but did have windows that open a bit, so I could get some cooling effect & got a decent amount of sleep, admittedly in “only my feet are under the covers” mode. Woke up a little bit before my alarm.Hotel breakfast wasn’t as crowded as I’d dreaded. ( there was…
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Ferry Time
Thanks to the hotel shenanigans, I didn’t get the train I’d intended; Not a big deal. There was one to Rotterdam soon after, so I caught that instead. (the planned one would have taken me to Schiedam Centrum, where there’s also a metro stop on the line out to Hook of Holland, where the ferry…
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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 I don’t really care enough to ask. Turns out it’s the first day of a…
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Greenwich Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Back to the Geovation hub to work today, even though I (correctly) expected it to be deader than yesterday. I stopped off at the coffee place from yesterday ( Goswell Road Coffee ) and hung around in there for a bit. They may be winning the “weird decorating” prize. The hub was, as predicted, dead.…
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Greenwich Monday to Thursday
Leaving Salisbury went smoothly; I’d packed everything I possibly could, done the dishes, and even vacuumed the night before, so all I really needed to do was shower, put on the clothes I’d set out the evening before, and go, retuning the key to it’s lockbox & dumping some rubbish on the way out. Me…
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Esri UK Annual Conference 2023
I’m writing these a bit asynchronously, but hopefully I covered the leg thing when talking about leaving Bournemouth. Short version is that walking was painful but got better over time, and that I was hoping it was a dehydration/exertion thing, because the symptoms were worryingly close to The Great L5S1 Rupture Of 2015. Slept well,…