Archive | travel

26 August 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Biography/map project – all the places I’ve spent the night

A few weeks ago, in those crazy moments between turning off the light and actually falling asleep, I had an idea to make this map as a way of preserving memories: a map of everywhere I’ve spent the night in the UK. View Places I’ve spent the night in a larger map I’ll call it [...]

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30 November 2009 ~ 1 Comment

The only photo I took in Madrid

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12 December 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Things we made in Staithes

John and I have just returned from another fabulous holiday at Northside Cottage in Staithes. We first went in January 2006 and loved it to bits but what with starting our own companies and everything, we’ve not really had time to go again. We finally decided a break was in order last month and though [...]

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07 October 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Our weekend in London in numbers

20 – cost, in pounds of our return train fare (each) 15.1 – miles walked (above the surface) 16 – painkillers popped by John (who hurt his back on the way to the train station in Leeds) 7 – cost, in pounds, of a sundae in the Haagen Das restaurant (worth it) 5 – drinks [...]

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15 September 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Berlin

I went to Berlin with Team Brightbox last week (1st-5th September) and as much as KLM conspired to make it otherwise, I had a great time. It took almost 24 hours to get there with the quote-unquote “Reliable Airline” because the flight between Leeds-Bradford and Amsterdam was delayed, causing us to miss the last connecting [...]

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10 February 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Sunset in Sunny Southport

We took a trip to Southport today for a day out and to see my mum’n’dad – and we got a lovely day for it for a change – sunny, crisp and clear. We bought some books (including a cool photo one on human dissection), wandered around the town for a bit and ate some [...]

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