Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Evensong at Salisbury

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In the weekend, we visited Salisbury via Shaftesbury. The latter is billed as a 'Saxon hill-top village' and to be sure it has a ve...
Saturday, December 27, 2003

Xmas and Brunel in Somerset

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But first another little London vignette: After the theatre in the West End, we were waiting (and waiting...) for a Picadilly line tube. E...
Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Another London weekend

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Back from Harrogate, a little stuffed - exam on the Friday and then 4 hours travelling. An expedition to the British Museum (off Tottenham ...
Sunday, December 21, 2003

Traffic

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Talking to the guys at Coda (on the course) it seems that my stress-out experience with traffic is actually quite common. It's not unus...

Retail Rant

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We are quite bemused by retailing in the UK: there's a lot of low-paid jobs (around 5 pounds/hr) and a fierce job demarcation ethic: y...

Harrogate, Half-fonged

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After a grand Italian meal in Harrogate (yes, it seems like a contradiction in terms, but the proprietor - Luigi, what else? - has a very fi...

A London weekend Dec 13/14

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Two plays, a Victoria and Albert (VA) museum expedition and a shop-up on Oxford and Regent streets. The plays: Jumpers (Tom Stoppard, an ...
Friday, December 12, 2003

Paris back to London

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Early train - and it's dark again! Well it is winter, but we haven't seen anything of the French countryside or houses. Just Calai...

Paris - Musee D'Orsay

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The Musee is a conversion of a former railway station, which itself is a work of art. Rivetted steel beams with very elaborate infill panel...

Paris - Le Metro et Tour Eiffel

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A day Paris pass is only Euro 6.50! Much better than London's Tube equivalent. I manage 'what is the line for St Michel' in Fr...

Paris - Louvre and Opera house

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Meal at a chain restaurant on Boulevard St Michel - the waiter is tolerant of our French, and is heartened when we recoil from the 'sauc...

Paris - the obligatory 'oh shit' moment

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Walking back from Luxembourgh gardens to the Seine, I check the traffic (to my right), step off the kerb... Shriek of tyres, Maddy yanks me...

Paris - Cluny

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On to Musee Cluny - a mediaeval museum built on the ruins of (from the bottom up) a Roman bath-house, an early abbey, and later churches and...

Paris - Pooh and Piglet

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Yes, all you've ever heard is true - the streets of Paris are somewhat littered in merde-du-chien - that's dogshit. The Pooh of the ...

Paris - a shaky start

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We decided to have the obligatory weekend in Paree. Eurostar train, of course: gets there fast and to a central station (Gare du Nord). S...
Friday, December 05, 2003

London Sounds and Smells

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The roaring of the tube trains over certain (ancient) sections of the track, (Todays news flash - a rail broke in the Tube today, and they...
Thursday, December 04, 2003

National Gallery night

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All work and no play etc, so we take ourselves off to look at some pwetty pixtures and then a meal. NG is right on Trafalgar Square, which ...

Work, Rugby Ads and the Kiwi Invasion.

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It's the middle of another work week, so mostly head-down, tail-up during the week. Work is just off Sloane Square, in Chelsea - a fashi...
Monday, December 01, 2003

And so to Dorchester and Judge Jeffrey

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After the obligatory view of the Roman wall fragment and a wander down the main street and market, we stop for lunch at Judge Jeffrey's ...

Somerset weekend

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Usual Berry's bus out to Wincanton to see Trev and Jane. Rapturous welcome from dogs. And relatives, it goes without saying. Saturday...