If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It’s been a busy weekend and bank holiday. In fact, I’ve spent most of it working, except for a chilly afternoon in Helen’s back garden yesterday, the cinema last night, and lunch at mum’s today, followed by cake with […]

Oooo. What a cool follow-up to the Bourne Identity. Very worthy of being tagged on to the end of the original.
It starts a bit slow, so it’s best to watch the original first so you know what’s going on, but once it’s off, it doesn’t stop for the next two hours, and all of it […]

Since getting back from my travels, and discovering that French isn’t actually all that hard, I’ve decided it’s time to improve my understanding of the language, so I’ve been reading Harry Potter a l’Ecole des Sorciers on the train (French dictionary close at hand).
I’m not doing too bad. I’ve read then first 19 pages without […]

It’s not easy taking pictures through aircraft windows. The sun invariably mucks up the window and gets in the way, but when I finally got around to downloading the pictures from one of the two cameras I took off on my travels this month, I found the pictures of London I’d taken from the plane.
The […]

The genius behind BBC News?

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Was work always that tiring, or is it just that today was my first day back?
Perhaps Tuesday wasn’t the best day to be starting back as it meant I’d been booked into a half-nine meeting, presumably on the assumption that I’d be in yesterday and so have notice. It’s as well I was early, mainly […]

Well, first class on the TGV is no great shakes. Certainly not as good as third class on the Spanish trains, with their free headphones, films and constantly updated information on where you are and how hot it is outside the confines of the air-con.
You do get a wider seat, of course, but beyond that […]

I’ve worn myself out today seeing Barcelona from above. I did the Sagrada Familia last time I was here, so headed off to the Gaudi Park before all the other tourists were out of bed.
Even then it was very hot, and walking up the hill to get to it wasn’t pleasant, but it was worth […]

So it’s Wednesday, which must mean this is Barcelona. Madrid was great. My first time there, so nice to see a new city, and particularly good to get out of the heat of Seville. In fact, the more time we spent in Madrid the less and less I liked Seville. It has so little to […]

It is unbelievably hot here. Certainly not the hottest place I’ve been, but at 39 degrees too much to stay out in the sun for long.
We had to come here by bus, unfortunately, as the Portuguese and Spanish governments haven’t yet got their acts in order as far as building a cross-border train line is […]