I entirely agree with this chap when he talks about being in someone’s company because you want to be, not for what advantages it can get you in life.
I have been in situations at conferences where you think you are having a nice chat with someone and then they get starstruck and leave suddenly - [...]
For some reason Simon and I felt incredibly rough today, we watched trashy chat shows and slept through most of the morning with headaches from hell. It could be jet lag, it could be not drinking enough water, it could probably be a tea withdrawal symptoms though! Eventually surfacing from the room we strolled up [...]
After 18 hours of solid packing we were pretty tired as we woke for the journey to Gatwick at 04:30 am. Our 7 hour flight to New York was realtively uneventful, but it was a shame that Simon and I didnt manage to get seats next to each other. I noticed that as the food [...]
These few months hold some pretty exciting changes for me and Simon. Monday of last week was my last day at Torchbox, I have spent a very happy two years there but the time was right for me to move on.
As of the 10th of September I will be working as a freelancer, available to [...]
We are home safe and sound now after a fantastic holiday in Lithuania. The food was excellent, the people friendly, we learnt a lot and and really enjoyed ourselves. Thanks go to everyone we met (or met again) and especially to Rita for making us feel so welcome. I will definitely be back, perhaps in [...]
Our plans to see the Soviet Theme park today were hampered for the same reason as yesterday, far too far to travel if you set out at 11am. Journey from Vilnius would have included two sparsely running buses and a 30 minute walk. The park contains recovered sculptures of prominent Soviet leaders that were built [...]
After failing to make breakfast this morning we discovered that our first choice of destination today was over 3 hrs drive away. Without a car or ability to drive this was pretty much out of the question. A shame really because it looked really exciting, we wanted to visit the Hill of Crosses. Story has [...]
Gosh, well most of today was spent recovering from the fun that was last night. Emerging for lunch Simon and I headed out in search of ‘Saint Germain‘ which turned out to be the best food we have had here yet. Quite hard to find but well worth it.
Taking a bike-cab back to the hotel [...]
There are many reasons why I didn’t update this mini travel journal last night.
It was a bit of a relaxing day yesterday, I had a lovely long holiday lie in and met Simon for Lunch. We explored the outskirts of the old-town in the search for a resteraunt we found on the interwebs described as [...]
From our room you can see in the distance a lovely Russian Orthadox church peeping through the trees with green domes. Looking in the guidebook there was no sign of this particular church but there were a few Byzantine Russian churches scattered through the city. As Simon was still writing his slides for the talk [...]
