Tag: Travel
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Journey To The West, Part One
I did most of my packing the day before, so that the day would be easier. Before any of the travel stuff, I went out & got myself breakfast, because that seemed like a good idea, and it meant that I wouldn’t need to lug the suitcase into a cafe or something. After approximately a…
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Bordeaux Monday
Packing up went very well; I think the most difficult part of the whole process was finding the bins for the apartment complex, because they were on the other side of the building about as far away from the entrance as it was possible to get. They were also full to overflowing, which meant that…
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Bordeaux Sunday
The AirBnB had a wrap-around deck which it turns out was great for an early morning coffee. Today’s breakfast was a little more organised, or maybe just closer; There was a former armoury next door which had been repurposed into lots of different places, including a boulangerie where we got breakfast pastries & coffee. Seemed…
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Bordeaux Saturday
We were all worried that the sick person in the group would deteriorate, or at least not feel much better, but thankfully they did make something of a recovery; Not feeling brilliant, but at least able to do some of the stuff that we’d planned to do. The other concern was that whatever they had…
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Chicago to Dublin to London to Aylesbury
It’s a long & exhausting trip, and it’s not getting any easier. The Indy to Dublin route opened after I booked, or I’d have at least tried that, to take out an airport and some time. For some reason, the host/server at the hotel restaurant was singing Julio Iglecias (?) songs to himself, and seemed…
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Auckland to Indy
I can’t entirely remember why this trip was divided into two days. It might be as simple as “that’s how the flight times worked out”, but it may also be that I wanted to try breaking the trip in Los Angeles. Got to say, I don’t think it worked the way that past me intended…
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Indianapolis to LA
A journey not without its surprises. I’d booked a relatively late flight, working on the theory that it would give as much Wiggle room as possible for getting to the airport; worst case, it’s a nice airport to hang out in, because it’s basically a mall with planes. Even landside is pretty nice. There was…
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Indianapolis to Columbus
It took us a while to find the convention centre once we got situated in the hotel. It’s kind of a maze in places, and the signage, to me at least, works along the assumption that you already know the layout; Directions to specific things in the centre, not to the place itself. The route…
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Chicago to Indianapolis
Slept well, and woke up at a sensible time. Well, sensible enough; There was sunshine & the hotel restaurant had coffee. ( there was an actual ‘Mr Coffee’ coffeemaker in the room, and I discovered why you don’t put too much water in the reservoir of those things. fortunately it was in a little tray,…
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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…