Tag: travel

  • 2018 ambitions

    Here are my personal goals for 2018 and I’m going to try and measure/track them again just to see how I’m getting on. Hopefully I’ll give myself a better grade for 2018 than I did for 2017! Nothing too hard this time hopefully — also nothing about public speaking either. I’m leaning towards taking a year off…

  • [S05 E07] “The Gift”

    My vagabond shoes, they are longing to stray So going to be a slightly all over the place note with a few photos just to make up for it this week. Mainly as I have been in New York all week — got back this morning and am currently feeling pretty sub-optimal! I love New York — pretty sure I…

  • myWeek (s4e15)

    Florence and the machines Week Fifteen — which means I have outlasted the Defra detour and still going strong-ish… This was a pretty special week as I was in Florence for the mySociety research conference — TICTeC. As ever I managed to make hard work of getting there — there was a taxi protest in the centre of Bristol so I got…

  • Bristol to Brooklyn…Filton Ave to Franklin Av

    April 2013 I have just spent four brilliant nights in Brooklyn, NY and this is a not so short summary of events (in fact some of you may feel like it takes longer to read than I was here!) I flew from Bristol with Aer Lingus. The first surprise was the plane to Dublin. I…

  • Dream (digital) destinations

    As I tend to travel solo I am prone to taking the ‘busman’s holiday‘ route. I like to tie my holidays in to events or activities not a million miles away from what I do for a day job to give things some structure amongst the sight-seeing and drinking 🙂 It also gives me something…