My blog - March 2004
Guess Where I've Been?
March 29th 2004, 9:25am
That's right, Scotland. Again. It's so depressing coming back home and being stuck in a terraced house surrounded by more terraced boxes, with a view across the other grey boxes of Coventry. Especially since I was up there five days this time - it was starting to feel like home. (That's Braincroft lodge right in the middle of the picture.)
On the way home there was an announcement on the train - every toilet on the train was out of order, so we would be making a toilet stop at Crewe - which made everyone laugh.
At Birmingham New Street I left my bags by my seat and went to get a chocolate bar from the vending machine. An announcement came over the tannoy telling us not to leave our bags unattended. I thought "I bet they saw me on the security cameras", and then immediately there was another announcement - "Closed circuit cameras are in use at this station for your own safety". I gave them a wave.
Next week: York. Woohoo!
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Blast from the Past
March 13th 2004, 11:22pm
I've just added my writeup of my 1997 trip to Malawi to the writings page. It used to be on the old version of this site, but I'd forgotten to move it to the new version, until now.
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Ireland
March 11th 2004, 4:01pm
This week I went to Ireland, and I've just got back. We went on Monday afternoon and immediately after arriving drove right across to Galway where we stayed in a backpackers' hostel. (Barnacles Quay Street - it was nice and clean, but I didn't get much sleep because the other people in the dorm made too much noise.)
On Tuesday we drove around the Burren area, just south of Galway and took lots of photos. In the evening we headed back up past Galway and managed to find a (really nice) hostel in Oughterard for the night.
On Wednesday we drove back across Tullynasheoy to the coast road, which we followed round to Leenaun, stopping off as usual to take lots of photos on the way, and to buy bodhráns in Roundstone. We then took a cross country route via Tuam and Ballinasloe to get back to the main road to Dublin.
We got into Dublin quite late and spent a good hour or so driving around before we managed to find our way to a hostel - Four Courts - which was more pricey than the others and wasn't very clean, but we weren't in there for long because we had to leave at twenty past six this morning to get to the airport.
I took one hundred and eighteen photos with my digital camera and about ten with my film camera, but I don't have many that are particularly outstanding, partly due to the fact that it was quite overcast on Wednesday, despite not actually raining. I've uploaded a few to the newly renamed British Isles Photos page.
(By the way, please excuse my spelling, as the map I have here only has English versions of place names on it, and even in the towns they couldn't make up their mind about how to spell places in English.)
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Comment posted by Ben at 9:25am on March 29th 2004
hmmm.... interesting.
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