I’m sitting in my office and have the 2 major wants I always seem to have returning from a trip to Japan: Big cities – need to do be somewhere with lots of hustle and bustle. Cambridge doesn’t quite do it. Food – I need good food. Right now I want Bacon, Sausages, and French […]
Back to the UK. Flight left Tokyo late, due to incoming flight being delayed (obviously due to incompetence on the UK side). Heathrow, both IRIS systems working (miracle). Then it hits. Heathrow Express cancelled due to broken train, therefore travel plans on the onward journey messed up. I get to Paddington and some nonsense guy […]
Spotted this the other day whilst out for a walk at lunchtime. Contrast this pic to the ‘man putting up umbrella’ that we have in the UK !
[Originally written on Sunday, just getting around to post] This morning as I checked in to the flight the lady at the checkin desk asked me if I wanted my bags checked through to Tokyo. My answer was simple “Thanks, but I plan for failure, and Heathrow being an epicentre of failure, I think I’ll […]
Tomorrow starts a 2 week travel journey, involving: * San Francisco/San Jose * Los Angeles (I don’t want to say LA as that makes me sound as if I’m in the entertainment industry) * London * Cambridge (for about 13hrs, a near optimal duration of time spent in Cambridge) * Peterborough/Durham/Newcastle * London * Tokyo/Yokohama […]
UK transport never fails to amaze me. I must confess there is something to be said for getting the 12:04 (midnight) mid-week train from Kings Cross to Cambridge – it always runs on time ! However, throw a Sunday in the equation and you are doomed. Simple task: get to Heathrow on Sunday morning for […]
I finally got one of the desks in my office fixed today. I found these desks by accident in a department store in London about a year back. I have two of them. One fixed, and the other tilts up and down – great for sketching and reviewing presentations on paper. I always work on […]
I bought this notebook and pencil a few weeks ago for inspiration, but never actually got around to using it until yesterday: I’d been trying to pick up the notebook for about a year whilst travelling, but at every airport or store I went to they never had any. By chance I was in London […]
It’s a beautiful day and I’m annoyed with myself having gotten the days mixed up. Yesterday was dull and drab and I wasted away the day. Instead of getting all the stuff I needed to get done over the weekend done then, I left it ’til today. And of course… today is a nice day […]
I feel restless, in one of those moods where I want to go out and do something. No rephrase that, I need to do something. Something that I wouldn’t normally do. What hit my mind when I woke up this morning was ‘Paris’. Some really nice food, nice drinks, in a different environment. I really […]