So, I've made it to Dublin. An interesting trip, not without a few difficulties ( Read more... )

Just received an e-mail from Deutsches Bahn telling my 10:32 train from Prague to Berlin was departing 31 minutes late. The message was timed at 11:06, and indeed, the train had left Prague station three minutes before I received the e-mail.

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My last full day in Prague and after a week of sunshine and heat the weather has turned cooler with spots of rain ( Read more... )

I'm on a train going from Berlin to Prague and the train has just gone through Losovice. Looking for that on the map, I realise I'm going past Terezin.

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Outside the Natural History Museum in Berlin is an advertising display, one of those that displays a number of different pictures in sequence. This cycles through a number of posters for a single campaign. Each poster shows a person wearing a cycling helmet. Variations of the same caption is on each poster, and the caption is in English. "Looks ( Read more... )

Went out for a meal this evening. A German pork dish called kassler. Very nice. It's amazing how much German beer I can drink when I've spent the day walking around Berlin in thirty degree heat ( Read more... )

So I'm in Berlin again. I wanted to go to Prague and found I had to break my journey somewhere and I like Berlin ( Read more... )

 Yesterday I travelled from San Francisco to San Jose.

When I opened my e-mail yesterday morning there was a message from HSBC telling me to log in to internet banking for an important message.  Having no wish to connect to e-banking on an insecure hotel wi-fi system, I'd not brought the HSBC e-banking security device with me so I couldn't do that ( Read more... )

I flew into San Francisco yesterday, on my way to Worldcon 76 in San Jose next week.

A fairly uneventful flight - I got a lot of reading done - was followed by a two-hour queue to get through US customs.  Apparently two other flights had got in just before us and the queue went out of the customs hall down the corridor when I joined it.

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 I'm in Paris at the moment, came up on the Eurostar this afternoon.

I'm staying in the same hotel I stayed in the last two times I visited Paris, near the Gare de Lyon.  I went out for a meal and when I got back there appeared to be a crowd gathered outside my hotel, and somebody addressing them with a microphone.  They were actually outside the ( Read more... )