10 AoutThere’s something remarkable about trains, and there is a lot to be said about the simple act of riding in one. The TGV, or Train Grande Vitesse (Great Speed Train), is just that: A really, really fast fucking train ( Read more... )

Here's where I'll be for the next two and a half weeks:


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So, I'm sitting currently at my desk in the Covent Garden Hotel. It's fairly early (9ish), and the ungodly amount of Guinness I've put in my body has returned to haunt me with an excrutiatingly dry mouth and a general light-headedness that forces me to hold on to corners as I traverse them. Goddamn, I celebrated my birthday in fucking STYLE! Wow ( Read more... )

Hello, my friends. Well, I finally got here -- and today is the first day without the jetlag and weird sleeping/waking hours. Ah, it's lovely here, a nice 22 degrees right now. I've met some truly nice people, and tomorrow on my thirty-somethingth birthday, we're headed to London on the Eurostar train. (I'll be sure to take a movie of that trip ( Read more... )