Category Archives: Travel notes

I have thought since last summer that Slovenia is the most civilised country in Europe. Now it turns out to have been the most technologically advanced, at least 8,500 years ago. Continue reading →

There is now a a constantly updated virtual departure board for my station. Now all they need to do is fix the trains. But it is lovely to be a mouseclick away from the next train. Continue reading →

On a train to Manchester well, the chief executive thinks were being a bit too generous with this chap, so I thought, why not ignore the first fifty million? Nothing odd about that, you may think: but the middle-aged stockbroker … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Danny O’Brien links to me! perhaps I should start a reward programme. Continue reading →

Apologies for the total lack of bloggery in the last week. I have been in California, having a really interesting time shuffling through the ashes of the boom. One things I noticed: even the grottiest motel I stayed in had … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Perkele! as my old Finnish workmate in the sawmill used to say. I found this almost perfectly incredible story while spending a happy sunday blog-rolling. It came through Teresa Hayden Nielsen, who I used to see around the Well. It … Continue reading → Continue reading →

in all England must have been the one I caught yesterday at Grapham. Most rainbow trout in this country are like battery chickens with scales. This one was like a sea-trout, perfect, glittering silver with each scale distinct. I should … Continue reading → Continue reading →

or at least badly reviewed, for collapsing in hysterical laughter in my seat on a subway train when I read this in the New Yorker. Continue reading →

where what was once achingly hip now just looks inconvenient. It’s housed in a converted warehouse tucked under a feeeway on 3rd street, abou a half mile walk from the subway. Up at the top is cool clean chic: MOMA, … Continue reading → Continue reading →