Category Archives: Travel notes

I’m off to meet my producer at Squealer Slurs, via Methanol Theta and Arcadian Noodle. A wonderful map found via Quite unconnected, but possibly also fun, the Dennett review has also been published. Continue reading →

Last year a pretty Australian girl was caught with four kilos of cannabis in her luggage entering Bali and sentenced to 20 years. Cue general Australian outrage, protestations of innocence, and so forth. So this afternoon I was looking for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In keeping with the spirit of Christmas I would point out that the Cambridge Wine Merchants of Cambridge, England, are selling some venerable Riesling at prices which are almost incredible. I found in their Bridge Street shop last week a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

How do you address a former president of the United States? I think I’ve got to phone one up on Wednesday. Continue reading →

I was introduced yesterday to the most absurd and delightful Chinese patisserie in Soho, possibly in Europe. The exterior walls are sheets of blue glass; even the urinals seem made from slabs of blue perspex, with a stepped slate trough … Continue reading →

Whn I was seven I spoke pretty fluent Serbo-Croat, and could read it reasonably well. We used to have a beautiful communist encyclopaedia called Svjet Oko Naš though I don’t know what happened to it after my parents moved house. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There is a photo up on Snopes.com which has been submitted as an urban legend. It shows a petrol station in Georgia charging $6.00 for a gallon of gas — the person who sent it in thought it must have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve been flickr-ing what I was up to. I still can’t really believe I saw this Continue reading →

Is anyone reading this in Stockholm? I will be passing through on Wednesday evening, with six hours to kill before the night train to Continue reading →

I’ve just found the most romantic place in the world, and I yearn to drop everything and flee there The list of attractions and their distances from the stuga, reads as follows Grocery shop (30km) Chemist (30km) Systembolag (liquor store) … Continue reading → Continue reading →