A little exploration of the area where I am living has led me to believe I am probably living in the Bangalore equivalent of Canary Wharf: there are lots of shiny new office and apartment blocks, and some amenities in the form of an American-style mall, but none of the classy lounge bars and fine [...]
Like all good roller-coasters the biggest adrenaline-rush is always saved for the finale. After a white knuckle auto-rickshaw ride from the office, I have a short walk to the apartment building. Unfortunately it usually involves crossing a busy urban dual carriageway where right-of-way is accorded to the biggest and fastest, and lights are strictly optional, [...]
It’s been so long since I blogged about travelling that I think I have almost forgotten how! I’ve been busy with work—and enjoying London—and I didn’t even find time to post a wry observation on the similarity in temperature between Sydney’s first day of winter and the first day of summer here…
Anyway, last weekend, Rosie [...]
I can’t believe I’ve waited this long to take up skiing! We’ve just got back from a fabulous week of skiing in the Bulgarian resort of Pamporovo. It was a lovely resort for our group of beginners—still a little “up-and-coming” in many ways, but at least it had some charm which I hear is lacking [...]
There was something very familiar about this advertisment in last Saturday’s Times magazine—I am pretty sure the background is St. John’s Street, Coleford.
This seems like a long time ago now, but I’ve put up some photos from my holiday to New Zealand.
Also Hong Kong.
So it turns out that if book your tickets far enough in advance, it can actually be cheaper to travel “Up North” first class than rocking up to the station on the day with your rail card! The availability of wifi is quite heavily touted on the GNER website, and so it seemed worth the [...]
We discovered another London gem last night: Improv Night at the London Comedy Store. It’s a little hard to explain the concept, but four to five comedians on stage at once (including on our visit, Paul Merton of HIGNFY-fame) improvising sketches and stories based on suggestions from the audience. Incredibly-funny: during the last sketch I [...]
All the travelling I did last year gave me a new determination to explore more of my own country, and especially London as when you live in a place it is very easy to dismiss tourists and completely miss the reasons they have come to visit! Some fun things I have done recently:
Premiership football at [...]
[Continued from Part 1. Rosie has put up some photos.]
On Sunday morning we had pre-booked tickets for the Washington Monument, an iconic pillar of the D.C. landscape. The distance one can see from the top is quite spectacular, although in a way it is more impressive from outside than in. Apparently if you take the [...]
I can’t believe that by this time next week I will be on a plane flying across the Atlantic and back to dear ol’ Blighty!
A couple of things it was felt should be done before we left:
Have a “keg party” with the big red plastic cups they always have when they show “frat’ [...]
I had thought Jesus GradSoc did Halloween pretty well — and then one All Hallow’s Eve I was in New York…
For a start there was a three hour parade from Greenwich Village/SoHo to 22nd St, although we actually failed to see any of this as by the time everyone had got their costumes sorted we [...]
Great Midtown Lunches
Kati Rolls: 46th Street between 6th & 7th Aves. “Indian wraps”.
Island Burger: huge variety of tasty burgers and they don’t sell chips!
Baluchi’s: excellent curry house, and the entire menu is half-price at lunchtime.
Great, Inexpensive Food, Anytime!
Shake Shack: A burger & milk-shake specialist in Madison Square Park. Unlike Island Burger, the main variety [...]
[The first weekend Rosie was visiting we went to Washington D.C. although sadly it has taken until now for me to find time to blog about the trip.]
Our trip got off to an inauspicious start as, after rushing home from work on Friday night and back to Penn station, our train was about 45 [...]
Apologies for the lack of recent updates, but with Rosie visiting for two weeks I’ve been far too busy doing things to write about any of them! Unfortunately Rosie has now gone back to Cambridge leaving me with little excuse to put off various work-related tasks any longer… A quick summary of touristy-things we [...]