Expecting Something Taller
We had a very nice little (if a little twee) B&B booked for Niagara, about a mile up the road from the falls (and the main hotels). As we discovered later, this was a very good move: the centre...
View Article“The List”
A few years ago, shortly after joining Facebook (I know, I know), I saw a number of friends had completed something called a Travel List Challenge, ticking off the countries they had been to. It...
View ArticleIndianapolis, Day 0
We left Willoughby to head to our ‘primary’ destination for this trip: Indianapolis, for the MotoGP. There were a few minutes of slight concern when we arrived at the hotel that had been booked for...
View Articlenail (mailx) certificates
This is mostly just to remind myself what to do the next time this problem happens, but it might be useful for somebody else. If you normally read this blog for our travel adventures, you probably want...
View Article“It’s hot. Damn hot! Real hot!”
We made it safely to Dubrovnik on Wednesday evening, and noticed that standing outside the airport was a little warm… but that was nothing compared to today. Today (Thursday), it was 34°C; it’s now...
View ArticleJust like “Game of Thrones”…
… but nobody died. Once we’d got ourselves sorted on Friday morning, we figured out the bus system and got ourselves to the nearest Libertas office to buy some 24-hour passes, then got the bus along to...
View ArticleLet’s Hit the Beach!
The only thing we knew we had to do on Saturday was to be at Gruž port for 4pm ready to board the fast ferry to Korčula. Somehow we had to get our bags there first; our host had suggested that he’d...
View ArticleSimonside Fell Race / Thropton Show
Originally posted on pursued by angry bees:If there’s one thing the British are good at, it’s eccentricity. We’re so good at it we would be able to export it, if only the rest of the world got what...
View ArticleThe Old Town by Night
After spending our first morning local to the apartment, and having a nice siesta to recover from the heat and a morning of walking down then up countless steps (a theme which is to be repeated), it...
View ArticleIeper (or Ypres)
The first day of our holiday, and a convenient location en-route to our intended proper first destination of Le Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. An early-ish start and a long drive from the far end of...
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