I boiled my egg this morning. The apartment was suffering from the lack of an egg-cup but I improvised with a measuring spoon, and felt proud of my ingenuity. I was not due to my initial destination until 12.30pm EDT so I made my slow way west across town, stopping in Washington Square and not […]
Buying bread here became a problem. It is often highly sugared, and not up to the standard I am used to. The solution was n obvious one – there must be a sourdough bakery nearby. “Google Maps” was, as ever my friend. A quick search revealed “Librae Bakery” a block and a half away. A brief […]
I slept until just before 10.00am EDT. That is the equivalent of 3.00pm BST, and is perhaps an indication of how exhausted I’ve allowed myself to get. The earplugs, and eye mask helped significantly. These allowed me to keep the air conditioning running so the apartment remained at a bearable temperature. After a shower (and […]
SQA Marking – tick. School Show – tick. Fife Pride – tick. Tinto Summer School – tick. Crazy year at school – goes without saying really. With all these things done, the time had come for me to actually have a holiday. To this end, I awakened in the morning after a very lovely dinner […]
My train from York was at 10.56. I hauled myself, and my luggage across the city, and enjoyed a bacon roll and a coffee at the station. Enjoyed looking around at some of the metalwork, and decoration – similar to that I’d seen in the museum the previous day. My train left on-time, and arrived […]
My travels for the last two years have been dominated by trains. I take joy in the fact that I can pretty much go “door-to-door” to destinations across Scotland, England, Wales, and indeed to those in Europe, and Asia. In principal, I could work out a route by rail from AUR to WTCP, in Singapore […]
After breakfast at my apartment, I walked the 20 minutes into the centre of York. It is a city with significant Roman, Viking, and Medieval history. It is perhaps the latter that is most represented in the architecture here. I have, in fact visited this city many times, but never as an adult. Family holidays […]
I took breakfast in a café next to the railway station before boarding my train to Peterborough to leave at 12.00. It was then a short wait at PBO with arrival at 12.49, and departure at 13.18.Arrival in YRK was scheduled to be at 14.32.Ive noted that railway information boards now have British Sign Language […]
Today marked my visit to King’s College chapel. This is a place I have seen many times, usually on Christmas Eve when “Carols from King’s” is shown on BBC television. I have long harboured a desire to visit, and this was my real motive for coming to this beautiful city. The chapel was at least […]
There is much to see in this city. I spend most of the day wandering the city, and seeing the sites including many of the Colleges associated with the university. The big site was King’s College, and chapel. I had a ticket to enter here the following day so for today, I simply circumnavigated this […]