Chinese Traipsing: Part 5
I'm off to Alsace - where Internet access is difficultly acquired - this coming week, not for pleasure, I can assure you, and I know I haven't touched this much at all since I got to France, so I'll leave you with a very short segment before I go.
Once I return from that stint, I'll be leaving to England the very next day, heading to Warwick. By then, one hopes, they'll have sorted their act out and I'll be able to actually enrol. I'll see if I can squeeze in another relevant entry during that time.
At this point then, we were staying in Haba over the next three days. Many of the group wanted to head upwards, an eight hour walk in all, and I was too ill to even contemplate it. I deeply regretted it at the time, but when they came back with bruises and leech bites, I counted my blessings. Besides, I was sun-burnt enough as it was.
There's about fifteen photos here and none of them are behind tabs.
There really wasn't much to the day. It was pleasant enough, however. I essentially read, played cards with my nephew, who had also decided to stay back, and ate whatever the hosts could come up with. Egg and tomato soup, with noodles, natch, is delicious. So no, not a bad day as such. I was simply preoccupied with wrapping up warm and killing whatever time I had with beer.
Later in the afternoon, we decided upon a walk of the place.
We thought we'd venture this detour:
But we really weren't up for straying from the main road in the end.
Evening was soon coming and the farmers were coming back.
And here's the interior court. Mine was the room with the open door, just across the lane.
Yeah, well, it can't all be excitement. I did feel much better and prepared for the next day, where we went uphill to have a picnic.
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This one's for IF and H.P. Lovecraft aficionados:
A variety of IF and graphic adventure game pieces based around the author's notes and ideas - most of which were never developed into full tales - that he kept in his Commonplace Book. We're talking disjointed scribbles, really, but they serve as basic influences for classic horror set-ups, for the most part well-written. It has to be said that Ecdysis would function as a good introduction to the IF genre: It's a platform-independent program and contains enough hyperlinks within the text so as to simply guide the user without hassle. The Tales of Wonder are worth the look too, those being based around early fantasy stories, but you've only got two works by Edward Plunkett so far, The Ebb and Flow of the Tide and The Journey of the King.
Once I return from that stint, I'll be leaving to England the very next day, heading to Warwick. By then, one hopes, they'll have sorted their act out and I'll be able to actually enrol. I'll see if I can squeeze in another relevant entry during that time.
At this point then, we were staying in Haba over the next three days. Many of the group wanted to head upwards, an eight hour walk in all, and I was too ill to even contemplate it. I deeply regretted it at the time, but when they came back with bruises and leech bites, I counted my blessings. Besides, I was sun-burnt enough as it was.
There's about fifteen photos here and none of them are behind tabs.
There really wasn't much to the day. It was pleasant enough, however. I essentially read, played cards with my nephew, who had also decided to stay back, and ate whatever the hosts could come up with. Egg and tomato soup, with noodles, natch, is delicious. So no, not a bad day as such. I was simply preoccupied with wrapping up warm and killing whatever time I had with beer.
Later in the afternoon, we decided upon a walk of the place.
We thought we'd venture this detour:
But we really weren't up for straying from the main road in the end.
Evening was soon coming and the farmers were coming back.
And here's the interior court. Mine was the room with the open door, just across the lane.
Yeah, well, it can't all be excitement. I did feel much better and prepared for the next day, where we went uphill to have a picnic.
---
This one's for IF and H.P. Lovecraft aficionados:
A variety of IF and graphic adventure game pieces based around the author's notes and ideas - most of which were never developed into full tales - that he kept in his Commonplace Book. We're talking disjointed scribbles, really, but they serve as basic influences for classic horror set-ups, for the most part well-written. It has to be said that Ecdysis would function as a good introduction to the IF genre: It's a platform-independent program and contains enough hyperlinks within the text so as to simply guide the user without hassle. The Tales of Wonder are worth the look too, those being based around early fantasy stories, but you've only got two works by Edward Plunkett so far, The Ebb and Flow of the Tide and The Journey of the King.