Life's about experiences. These are mine.
I forget how I came across Longplayer but I was fascinated by its intersection between two of my interests: music and technology. Conceived by Pogues member Jem Finer for the turn of the millennium, Longplayer is a composition that plays for 1,000 years without repeats. It can be played by a computer or “live” using …
Reading the latest Martin ‘Money Saving Expert’ Lewis email last week it reminded me that Amazon do behind the scenes tours of their fulfilment centres, something that I’d had on my to do list for a while. Why was Lewis highlighting it? Because it is free to attend. In the week between my booking and …
Another leg of the Thames Path checked off ✓. This time an 8.5 mile quiet and rural stretch bookended by Abingdon town and the city of Oxford. Here One Minute, Gone the Next For the first time since we started walking the path, we were joined by some friends on this stretch. They kindly offered …
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It’s been a long time since we have visited The Eden Project – 25 years in fact. We last visited the year that it opened and I think that it is fair to say that it has changed enormously in that time. No longer is it obvious that this was once a clay pit, as …
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Globally, the total combined spending on weather forecasting is apparently well over $10 to $15 billion annually. That’s an enormous amount of money and, given that several billion of that comes from public funds, I don’t think it’s offering terribly good value for money. Take today for example – the forecast said overcast but no …
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When we told friends that we planned to visit St Austell in Cornwall for a break they were very quick to point out that it was known as St Awfull (gleefully highlighted by the Daily Mail, which I refuse to link to). That when they’d visited they had managed to book themselves into a tired …
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I know, you have two questions: Day Five Day five was another day at sea. This time no attempt was made to go behind the scenes or to take trip to the flicks. Instead, we contended ourselves with eating, drinking (tea) and walking the deck. The latter was not was easy as it sounds given …
The last Spanish stop on this cruise was in Vigo, no I’d never heard of it either. The more cruises you do the more this becomes an issue. Once you have done Barcelona, Rome, Athens, Dubrovnik etc you are left with the likes of Lugo and Vigo. Not that there’s anything wrong with that at …
Toady we docked in La Coruña, a pretty looking Spanish port but this was not to be the destination for the day. Instead we boarded a coach that drove us an hour to the town of Lugo. Guide but not Guided This excursion was titled “Lugo on your own” which, to my mind, meant a …
When you think of Spain what do you think of? Brits holidaying on the Costa del Sol, possibly? Barcelona and Real Madrid, perhaps? Basque separatists, maybe? Sunshine, definitely! So, it came as a bit of a shock this morning on arrival at the port of Gexto to see low grey cloud and drizzle. Frank Gehry …