Sunday, April 3, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
4 take offs and landings
and I'm back home. After the first day of stories and saying hello to my parents and aunties and dog, reality sinks in and being back gets very disheartening so I made some (fabulous) sangria. I forgot to tell you about the other 7 countries we visited (sorry!) but may write about them later on. Check back in a month and perhaps there'll be a couple of catch-up blogs about London or Bath or Berlin, or something. It was a great trip and I have a million stories.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Oxford comma
London is a very long (and good!) story so I'll skip it for now.
We are currently having a beer in the Eagle and Child, or "Bird and Baby". It's a small quiet pub in Oxford with goodish music (KT Tunstall, Jeff Buckley, The Feeling), strange beers, a decent menu, and 900 extra awesome points for being the very pub where where Tolkien and CS Lewis hung out for decades! We were going to take ourselves on a Tolkien / CS Lewis tour but we only got as far as this which was the first stop. The brochure was badly designed so we didn't want to read it.
I'm having a chocolate flavoured beer which is... interesting. Like, in a bad way.
We are not writing any fantasy epics.
It's probably a good thing that we haven't seen much TLOTR souvenirs or you'd all be getting tacky rings of power when I get back.
We're doing a lot of sitting down and cafe/pub-ing today which is a huge relief after the rush of London.
Oxford town is beautiful. It's like a town (city?) sized version of the USYD quad area but older and grander and with less hipsters but significantly more bikes.
Next stop is Bath!
Written between 2pm and 8pm, 31 Jan. N
We are currently having a beer in the Eagle and Child, or "Bird and Baby". It's a small quiet pub in Oxford with goodish music (KT Tunstall, Jeff Buckley, The Feeling), strange beers, a decent menu, and 900 extra awesome points for being the very pub where where Tolkien and CS Lewis hung out for decades! We were going to take ourselves on a Tolkien / CS Lewis tour but we only got as far as this which was the first stop. The brochure was badly designed so we didn't want to read it.
I'm having a chocolate flavoured beer which is... interesting. Like, in a bad way.
We are not writing any fantasy epics.
It's probably a good thing that we haven't seen much TLOTR souvenirs or you'd all be getting tacky rings of power when I get back.
We're doing a lot of sitting down and cafe/pub-ing today which is a huge relief after the rush of London.
Oxford town is beautiful. It's like a town (city?) sized version of the USYD quad area but older and grander and with less hipsters but significantly more bikes.
Next stop is Bath!
Written between 2pm and 8pm, 31 Jan. N
Monday, January 31, 2011
Virgin atlantic woe
I am writing this on the plane and will be posting it when we get to London in 7.5 hours time if I don't die before then of the malignant Trans Continental Flight Hatred that I have recently acquired. While it is interesting and a great feat of technology to think that I am sitting on a(n uncomfortable) chair in the stratosphere, travelling at 850kph over a place called Barnaul in Russia, I think I have concluded that travelling in the olden days, that is, by ship, is probably the better alternative. I have not crossed oceans by ship before but I have watched informative movies like Voyage of the Dawn Treader so I know that they have hammocks and leg room. As ships take at least a few weeks to get from Europe to Australiasia, please don't be expecting me home until sometime in May.
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