Archive for July, 2009
Monday, July 20th, 2009
Llangollen to Bath
I knew England was hilly, but holy crap, is it hilly.
I set out from Manchester on Thursday morning and the weather was fantastic. By two o’clock I’d gone 45 kilometers, and was just ready to stop for a lunch break when it started to rain. I thought this timing was serendipitous, because it would probably [...]
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
Manchester
There are moments when Manchester is like a much less intense version of New York. I could live here. The city is small and beautiful, and I’d been told its nightlife was legendary. Apparently the capacity of the bars and nightclubs in Manchester totals half the population of the city.
That stories of Manchester nightlife had [...]
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Panoramic
I took a couple of panoramic stitch shots in Edinburgh. I used to like doing this when I was a kid on my old crap film camera and then taping all the prints together. I hadn’t realized how much better and easier a little software and a digital camera makes this; I’ll have to take [...]
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
Edinburgh to Glasgow
The ride to Glasgow took me about six hours in all, much longer than I had anticipated. Part of the problem with this was the route, which, despite having specified to my mapping software that I would be riding a bicycle, took me along roads that only sometimes had a separate bike path. At several [...]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Edinburgh: Day Two
I headed up to Edinburgh Castle – a short walk from my hostel – first thing this morning. All the tour guide could talk about for the first few minutes was how great the weather was, how lucky we were, and how we should all take advantage of the sunshine and the fantastic view. It [...]
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Touchdown in Edinburgh
I am in Edinburgh.
In order to check my bike at the airport – which was an ordeal in itself because the attendants didn’t seem to know where to send me with my plastic-wrapped bicycle, but that’s ok, because they also didn’t seem to keep track of who was going to charge me the extra $30 [...]