Usually on holiday, I would buy some supplies such that breakfast can be taken at my apartment before I leave. However, on this occasion I will be moving from city to city, making such an arrangement trickier. After careful consideration I did buy some eggs, butter, ketchup, tea, and milk, and resolved to carry these […]
I should perhaps mention that I have in fact visited this city before – on a number of occasions. Manchester University continues to host the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) service. This is a technique which can give information about the location of electrons on molecules, and one I […]
It’s so easy to say “after a difficult year at school…” to justify a holiday so I will not say that. Ah, too late. Whatever the justification, here I find myself heading south on a short “World Tour of England”. “How did this come about?” I hear you ask. Perhaps you don’t ask. Either way, […]
My alarm awakened me with a “start” at 7.00am. I showered before taking Metro line 2 to Brussels-South railway station. I had coffee and a cinnamon danish before checking in. I passed without incident through French and UK border control and the “Eurostar” security check. The train left at 9.51am and arrived at 10.43am at […]
The breakfast provided at the hostel was surprisingly good. It was buffet style with toast, ham, cheese, jam, scrambled egg, bacon pieces, and cereal. I helped myself, poured a coffee and enjoyed. To describe the weather using the wonderful Scottish word “driech” would be an understatement. The drizzle seemed to simultaneously hang in the air […]
I slept fairly well on the train. I think. It can be very hard to tell as it feels a lot like you’re wide awake the whole night but at the same time, it all passes and before you know it, 8.00am has arrived. A very polite steward brought a coffee and a breakfast bag […]
Today was to be another non-day, with my train to Brussels not due to leave until 10.56am. This being the case, after a short workout and a shower, I dragged my case to the Hauptbahnhof and deposited in a locker. I then bought myself a cinema ticket to see “Oppenheimer”. Now, obviously I am not […]
This was to be my penultamate day in Berlin and my last night, as my train to Brussels was to be at 10.56pm the following night. After breakfast and a workout, I took the U8 line and M29 bus to the Schwules Museum. This was advertised as the first LGBT-orientated museum in the world. Inside […]
After a very lazy morning and early afternoon a really had no particular plan to do anything specific. However, a browse of the “Pride Month” brochure revealed a tour that sounded very interesting indeed: “Berlin’s History of Sex in Augmented Reality”. Money paid, I ventured to the meeting point. On the way I took coffee […]
I had a lovely breakfast at an establishment called “Capuchino”. I had some trouble figuring out exactly what I had ordered but it turned out to be a bread basket with a selection of cold meats and cheeses, tomato, avocado, and some apricot marmalade. There was nothing not to like and it felt quite authentically […]