Forgive the random photo at the end of my last post as I am still trying to get to grips with the WordPress app on my iPad. After being cooped up in meetings for what felt like days I really needed lots of fresh air and a good walk. So today mum and I headed [...]
Posts Tagged ‘travel’
London
Posted: 04/17/2010 in Navel gazing, travelTags: ash, ashtag, Iceland, London, travel, volcanoes
I am currently trapped in London along with a fair number of my colleagues (and everyone else trying to depart this fair isle). I guess when the powers that be decided to schedule vision days they didn’t see as far as Iceland. A volcano goes poof in Iceland and the aviation industry grinds to a [...]
I should really be re-writing an essay on neighbourhoods in Pompeii or doing the reading for my next one on Antigone (which I just found out should be pronounced An-tig-on-e rather than Anti-gone) but no I am spragged out on the sofa drinking a limb Starbucks latte and trying very hard to stay awake. Oh [...]
I’ve skipped out of town for a few days to hang out with Alex in Chicago. He’s here for a ThoughtWorks gathering and I am here to listen to NPR in a hotel room (joke). This morning I ventured out for a stroll in Milenium Park before heading to the Art Institute of Chicago for [...]
Things on Tuesday: Absent Spouse Edition
Posted: 10/06/2009 in things on tuesdayTags: atlanta, family, things on tuesday, travel
Good Nothing beats the excitement of seeing each other again after 5 days of communicating via txt, Twitter & email. As much as I love my iPhone there isn’t an app for hugging A four day work week for Alex means that he has Fridays to himself and can play was much Halo as he [...]
beantown
Posted: 08/02/2004 in travelTags: Boston, Boston Museum of Fine Art, Duck Tours, Legal Seafood, travel
Alex and I have just got back from a mini-vacation in Boston. So nice to shaken up our routine – even if it was just for a few days. We stayed in the oldest hotel in the city Omni Parker House, very traditional with an imposing old world feel. Every time I entered the lobby [...]
The one where I had to catch a plane
Posted: 05/15/2004 in london life, travelTags: London, travel, virgin atlantic
05:00 Beep, beep, snooze. 05:06 Beep, beep, snooze. 05:12 Bleary eyed drag arse out of bed to revise. 05:17 Realise internet connection is set up on a timer so I really have to revise. 06:00 Set up copius amount of things to be recorded on TIVO that I wont have time to watch on my [...]
