I am a German railways devotee after this morning’s ride on the ICE train. It is a truly fantastic experience. Entertainment at your seat - headphone sockets and a choice of six channels to listen to. Carriages devoted to showing films (Zoolander in this case), carriages with repeaters to make your mobile work better, and [...]
Last night was spent in a beer hall eating rather fatty food. Lots of beer, and lots of cream in sauces. Vegetarians well catered for, which is probably more to do with the PR people looking after us well than the place itself.
There was a fairly even split of who went out afterwards and who [...]
I was planning on going to Dachau this morning. It’s one of those places you spend your whole school career hearing about, but it always seems so remote and detached, and so being a short tram and bus ride away, it seemed a worthwhile trip.
Then again… tram andbus. That could mean waiting around for a [...]
Well, I’ve brought the wrong coat. Europe is freeying and the letters are in the wrong place on this kezboard. Z and Y seem to be interchanged. The bakslash is on the number seven, the colon is on the full stop (does that sound like a euphemism for constipation) and the @ szmbol is on [...]
14h01. Fresh out of the studio and ready for the off. A fun show, all things considered, topped off by a live performance in the studio by Chas Smash of Madness.
How often I’ll get to update this while I’m away, I don’t know, but there’s a Eurostar waiting and I need to be on it…
Plenty of blogs have been talking about George W and his stance on Iraq, but the best way to find out what’s going on must be to listen to him speak or, for those of us overseas, catch up on what he said with the transcripts on the White House web site. Here’s an enlightening [...]
The chocolate cycle has been broken. Emilie and I gave it up for seven days after a fortnight of pigging out, having our first nibble of the comfort drug in seven days yesterday morning. Today, back into the abstinence cycle, I neither miss nor crave it at all.
Perhaps it’s because between us we pigged out [...]
So, what were yesterday’s tube strikes all about then? There seem to be mixed messages - whether it’s about pay or safety or conditions. Time to do a bit of hunting around online.
The London Underground site seems to be the best place to start. It has a quote from Bob Crow, General Manager of one [...]
Tube strikes. Don’t you love them. I have walked miles today. Literally. It’s good for me, I guess, and comes at the end of a week of chocolate abstinence, so I’m feeling righteous. I ache terribly, though. Not just from the walking, but from overdoing it in the gym on Monday.
I’m blaming the smelly people [...]
