Life's about experiences. These are mine.
I suppose that we had better get the elephant in the room out of the way early doors. This installation in Weston-Super-Mare is part of what was intended to be a festival, nay a celebration, of Brexit. Obviously for 48.1% of the population that was a bit of a slap in the face and so it was relabelled Unboxed 2022.… Read the rest
On a trip up North over the last few days we visited Scarborough home of the Stephen Joseph Theatre. Most closely associated with Alan Ayckbourn (all but four of his plays have debuted there) but we weren’t seeing an Ayckbourn but the revival of a play called Constellations by Nick Payne.… Read the rest
I was supposed to be visiting the Science Museum today to see their science fiction exhibition. I’d deliberately left the booking of my ticket for this and the train until yesterday as I didn’t want to be going up if it was bucketing it down as I was intending to walk from the station to the museum and there is nothing worse than trudging round a museum soaking wet.… Read the rest
I wanted to do one more post on our recent US holiday taking a look at it in terms of some significant numbers.
One number I won’t be concentrating on too closely is that of the pound to dollar rate which hit a virtual parity while we were away.… Read the rest
DAY 22 – Park City to Salt Lake City (27 miles driven, 6.96 miles walked)
Our flight back to the UK wasn’t until 21:10 this evening (I am writing this in the lounge as we wait for the flight) so we had a full day to kill.… Read the rest
DAY 22 – Canyon Village, Yellowstone to Park City (384 miles driven, 2.56 miles walked)
Tomorrow is the last day of the season in Yellowstone when all the food and lodging shuts down. The campgrounds and cabins are already closed and the places that were still open were clearly grearing up for the shut down.… Read the rest
DAY 21 – Canyon Village, Yellowstone (0 miles driven, 7.87 miles walked)
America, what is the obsession with cinnamon and cheese (not together although there is bound to be a meal that has both)?
Breakfast this morning was ordered from a school dinners type counter where one of the options was “French toast” along with that impossibly thin and crispy bacon the Americans specialise in.… Read the rest
DAY 20 – Jackson to Canyon Village, Yellowstone (116 miles driven, 5.64 miles walked)
There were only two things that I thought I knew about about Yellowstone park. Firstly the geyser (prouounced guyzer or geezer?) Old Faithful and secondly that it is a massive volcano that’s overdue a blow*.… Read the rest
DAY 19 – Jackson (0 miles driven, 6.79 miles walked)
We’re staying in another cabin here in Jackson which is bijou if I’m being polite. However, it does have one downside and that is a light right outside of the cabin shining in making it difficult for me to sleep at night.… Read the rest
DAY 18 – Vernal to Jackson (286 miles driven, 3.70 miles walked)
It was another long drive today – five hours from Vernal, UT to Jackson, WY. We’d been told that the first and last segments of the drive were the most attractive.… Read the rest