Archives

• Porto’s paradox

  So wrong it’s right.

• Wish I had an appreciation for foreign languages growing up. I didn’t visit a non-English speaking county until I was 26; a holiday or school trip to Europe may have been transformative.

• Only spent a day in Vigo, but leaving this small Spanish coastal city impressed; beauty in every direction.

  

• Nose job.

  

• The trains in Spain are mostly a pain

  Turns out using an Interrail pass in Spain isn’t straight-forward.

• Unexpectedly caught La Vuelta as the peloton rolled through San Sebastián. For a supposed cycle race, notable more for the passage of internal combustion engines than Lycra clad legs.

  

• Pretty Paris.

  

• Sat in my happy place, on a Eurostar train headed towards mainland Europe.

• Paris, San Sebastián, Vigo, Porto and Madrid

  A week in Porto, reached via several stops in Spain.

• The disused station at Hellingly.

  

• Having had my arm twisted, binged all 4 seasons of Stranger Things with my eldest niece over this last week. I throughly enjoyed it! It’s a compelling story and has some fun characters, but boy do they need to hire some damn editors; that last episode was 139 minutes long!

• Brentford!!?

• Occasionally these two see eye to eye.

  

• Going against the grain when it comes to sleeper trains on the continent, turns out the Sud Express has been suspended indefinitely. Makes planning a trip to Porto all the more difficult to arrange.

• To lose one driver, Alpine, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

• I now fully expect Alpine to have a championship winning car next season.

• Thank you, next

  Taking a break before finding my next project.