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Category: travel

  • And That’s When Flames Caressed My Leg

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night after visiting my new flat and getting to know one of the people that live there I came back to the bar in Halls to chat with friends but that didn’t last long as there was a lack of atmosphere. Everyone migrated to the field and that’s when it’d become…

  • Appreciating The Gotheburg

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I went down to see the East India ship sailing under Tower Bridge. First time in three years of living in London I see the draw bridges raised. Bands were playing and spectators were watching. Here are the other pictures

  • I Haven’t Had a Proper Night’s Sleep in 85 Days

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSince I left Switzerland after doing some work on the 21st of February I haven’t had a proper night’s sleep for 85 days. That’s a long time. I wish there was a soundproof chamber into which I could go. What if I designed and built a soundproof bed? Wouldn’t be that…

  • Too Much Academia Has Disconnected Me From World News

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToo much academic research and concentrating on dissertations has cut me off from world news to such an extent that apart from tech goings on I had no clue. I hardly followed the French elections, hardly noticed the death of Yeltsin, hardly noticed the regional elections. There are three reasons for…

  • An Energetic Walk Through London

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday is a day of rest for me. I caught the tube into central London and went for a nice hour long walk through the center of London. Starting from Oxford tube station I walked through the throngs of people, dodging them and trying to fray the quickest path through them…

  • Singapore Is the Fastest Walking City

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just noticed that I’d love living in Singapore because that’s the city where people walk the fastest. Copenhaguen is a city I’ve walked in but I didn’t notice it being particularly fast. Berliners walk faster than New Yorkers and Londoners walk slower than all of the above. I wonder how…

  • Dissertations Are Demanding

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSpending almost all of the time when you’re awake to complete your dissertation is hard, especially when you slept no more than six hours after a good night out. I’ve spent almost all the time I’ve been awake working on my dissertation and it’s progressing well but there is still work…

  • Time For The Dissertation Re-write

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteNow that I’ve achieved my goal of getting most of my dissertation written I’m going to take a day’s break and work on another of my assignments to clear my head and also to make sure I complete all assignments by the required date. It’s been a long effort but last…

  • Three Thousand To Go

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn three thousand words my first dissertation draft will be ready. This evening I may be able to get up to ten thousand words and from that point on it will be about the re-writing of one section after another until I am happy that I have fit in as much…

  • Barbeque Sunrise – A Student excentricity.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are many things I have done in the past but having a barbeque at five am whilst the birds are tweeting and the sun is rising is not within my normal realm of experiences. It was nice, felt more like the end of a festival night than anything else. The party…