I think I might be the only human being who will fly out as normal tomorrow.  Cross your fingers that BA keeps its long-haul flights going, and Heathrow remember how to deal with frozen water ( Read more... )

Michael Swanwick reviews my favourite installation so far.

God, I loved wandering around in that.  It may not actually have been dank, but it felt that way, empty and echoing and like a summer camp after everyone's gone home for the summer, and it's sometime in a very bleak November.  This was up the first winter I was here, and I was feeling pretty ( Read more... )

So!  I will be in London in December for two nights (assuming everything goes through with my visa, and I can actually go home for Christmas), and I'm actually considering moving away from my beloved hostel experience.  Before I give in and go with YHA St Paul's, anyone got any recommendations for B&B's or cheap hotels in London?  The closer to the ( Read more... )

Well, last day in London was...ehm, a non-event.  Mostly because my last night in London was kickass.  Went out with some people from the hostel to a great bar (The Spread Eagle in Camden Town -- it was, somehow, miraculously totally uncrowded on a Friday night!!) then to a rather nice club that a) had a cover charge that didn't involve selling an ( Read more... )

AUGH MY FEET.

I sort of meant to not do the marathon museum thing this time...which doesn't stop my feet from aching unbelievably.

More about Waiting for Godot, last night, because I loved it so, so much.  It's been ridiculously long since I've been to the theatre -- the New Theatre doesn't usually show stuff to my taste -- and it was such a lovely ( Read more... )

Waiting for Godot really really really needs to be seen, rather than read.  There is so much more in the production.  And the really good cast :)  I loved it and it was worth the price to get good seats.

Unfortunately I now have a headache so bad, I'm actually nauseous.  Do hope that clears up...

I am being Productive!  Whooo!

Which so far means working out how much money I need to borrow for next year, weeping, applying for a loan, weeping, researching another loan, and wondering just how much I need to eat, really.  On the plus side, it looks like I'll graduate less than $100k in debt so...hooray?

This little spark of productivity should ( Read more... )

Am museum'd out.  Royal Observatory is better than the Maritime Museum, even if I did have to see it while fighting my way through every French schoolchild in existence.  British Museum is overwhelming.  Tomorrow:  V&A, and then lots of sitting in parks with a book, and then home to Cardiff ( Read more... )

Spent most of the day running for various forms of transit, it feels like.  In Greenwich now (well, technically just outside).  As a town, it's okay, a bit like Cardiff.  Lived-in, comfortable, not anything worth writing home about.  The Maritime Museum is lovely, and I got to gaze at sextants and astrolabes and Nelson's jacket.  (They washed the ( Read more... )

Day three of Easter holiday!

And I'm having...a less than cracking good time of it, shall we say.  My immune system continues to not be on speaking terms with me.  So although I genuinely do want to just camp out in the Science Library (I have a spot near the at-sea Nav texts) and work on a paper, I'm staying in my room another day, and attempting ( Read more... )