Aaaaaaaand I'm done. Toronto is astonishingly grey from above, a wash of nothing but concrete from horizon to horizon ( Read more... )

London again - just as brilliant as last time. Met some really great ( Read more... )

We were in Dublin for a while and then we left. Travel is narrowing down to a great many stories like that now, with time for contemplation along the way. I typically contemplate how fuzzy the world is without my glasses for anywhere up to an hour at a time, thinking about how I'd try to get the colours of Fuzzy down on a computer or whatever ( Read more... )

Time is short, but:

Dublin = Awesome. I'm planning on applying to Trinity College for grad work, provided I can find an appropriate program.

Also, there is a whole museum of Victorian taxidermy here. They call it Natural History, but I call it Creepy (wicked).

We did the science centre yesterday, and also attended a screening of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari at the tiny art-house theatre. It's one of the most worthwhile things I've done on this trip, that ( Read more... )

Yesterday = hard-core museum going. We did the Transportation Museum (rock! It was awesome!) and two others I can't even remember at all, but which must have been OK to go. Oh, right - the Cathedral and St. Mungo's Religious Museum, which has the most incredible Day of the Dead skeleton on display. I really enjoyed it, especially because it ( Read more... )

Ainslie and I have finally worked out the last major bookings of our trip: We're going to Dublin. On Tuesday. Because it has a good natural history museum, and that completes the British Isles for me, and we will have seen just about all of Scotland (hint: Muskoka) and I'll have seen a Great Deal of England, including many of the highlights (Bath ( Read more... )

I've now seen my first totally orange person. She (?) had bluish eyelids, and was fighting with her very drunken boyfriend. I've been assured that this is a cultural experience, but it's no comment on Glasgow ( Read more... )

Inverness was very, er, "peaceful." Which is to say that the only industry in town is Loch Ness, which is very beautiful. The town itself is governed by drunken, lonely youth awaiting the chance to escape to the Big City. Ainslie and I walked for about an hour, saw a football match on the local playing field, and that TransAmerica was playing at ( Read more... )

Today we walked the Royal Mile, all the way from the Castle to Holyrood Place. Holyrood was closed when we got there, mind you, because it was 6pm. We'd been walking since about nine ( Read more... )