Month: September 2012
The best days are never planned
Bucovina
Murderer!
Cycling to Shropshire
We went to see friends in Newport, Shropshire yesterday. Richard deviated the journey to pick up his new car in Stoke, so I took the opportunity to cycle to Shropshire. The 43 mile journey wasn’t quite as quick as I’d hoped, partly because I went the wrong way, but mostly because there was a head …
Diedro UBSA
A Nice Weekend in Varna
Niagara Falls
I spent last week in Niagara at the International Association of Hydrogeologists Congress. We arrived pretty late at night and looking out of my hotel window at some unearthly hour in the morning I could see a huge dinosaur, a ferris wheel and a steaming volcano; I thought I was in Las Vegas. Thankfully when …
An Imperial vs. Metric Rant
I don’t understand imperial measurements: and typically the Americans add extra levels of screwiness!