Plans for escaping in July are going well. A few minutes ago I paid for then sent my GTTR application off. When I started writing this entry this morning I'd just sent my application to my referee, the most awesome Prof. John Bryan. I then had to get back to work, but it was only a matter of minutes it took him to provide me with a reference for ( Read more... )

As the crow flies, it is about 1000 miles from Vienna to my house in Britain. This is a long way if you want to walk it, and even a long way if you want to drive it, but it's pretty short if you want to fly it. A flight between Vienna and a UK airport takes a couple of hours. Why then, did it take me 26 hours to get home for Christmas?

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