Did ya miss me? Been off touring New Zealand for a few weeks (Mr Torkington, that’s a beautiful country you have there). Got home just before midnight last night (about three hours later than expected due to flight delays). Not entirely sure what time of day it is, but I’ll be catching up over the… Continue reading Hi Honey, I’m Home
Category: travel
New Zealand
I mentioned yesterday that we’re off to New Zealand in ten days time. If anyone’s interested, here’s the itinerary (all dates in August): Sun 5th Leave UK Mon 6th Arrive Singapore Tue 7th Singapore Wed 8th Leave Singapore Thu 9th Arrive Christchurch Fri 10th Christchurch Sat 11th Christchurch to Queenstown Sun 12th Queenstown Mon 13th… Continue reading New Zealand
The Joy of Flying
Martin makes some very good points about the unpleasantness of current airport security procedures. And, of course, once you get past security spending any amount of time in a plane is no fun at all. I’m seriously considering cutting back on the amount of flying that I do. Not because of global warming, and not… Continue reading The Joy of Flying
The Naze
Red Crag, The Naze This weekend I was at my parents’ and on Saturday afternoon we took advantage of global warming and went for a walk along The Naze. The Naze is a coastal headland just north of Walton in Essex. It was the area that first got me interested in geology when I was… Continue reading The Naze
Montserrat
The highlight of my holiday was the helicopter trip that we took to Montserrat to see at first hand the damage done by the Soufriere Hills volcano since it became active in 1995. The trip is organised by Caribbean Helicopters on Antigua. I only found it because I was idly flicking through my copy of… Continue reading Montserrat
Photos
They still need a lot more tagging and reorganisation, but I’ve just dumped about 350 photos from the cruise onto Flickr. Enjoy.
Delta Blues
I rarely have a need to use a US airline, so I don’t really know anything about their relative merits. I do, however, now have one useful data point. Delta is staffed entirely by incompetent fools and I’ll never be using them again. Our return from Costa Rica involved two Delta flights on Friday. DL245… Continue reading Delta Blues
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from somewhere in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. We’re heading towards Cuba. We arrive there tomorrow morning for a four day stay. We’re all hoping that Castro doesn’t die in the next few days – as that could apparently be a bit of a problem for tourists in the country.
A Mystery
Yesterday, following a series of confusions that may never be adequately explained, we ended up having a very nice dinner in Barbados with my step-mother-in-law (is that a real term?) During the meal, she mentioned that at some point earlier in the year she had met someone who knew me. Someone who worked in computers.… Continue reading A Mystery
Cruising
I’m writing this from a ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Net access is (understandably) patchy – we’re sharing a 64k pipe with all the ship’s official data traffic – so I haven’t kept as in touch as I hoped that I would. We’ve been to Gibraltar and Madeira and for the last… Continue reading Cruising