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A Collection of Holiday Posts, September 2005
07September2005
This post is a collection of ?bits written over the last couple weeks in my notebook… These are mainly just […]
Barcelona
05September2005
Visited Barcelona Sep2-6. Explored the Barri Gotic, Barcelona's 'old town' equivalent, which is built atop the ruins of the old Roman settlement, and houses the city's cathedral. Also wandered around Montjuïc, where the complex for the Olympic Games was built.
A Coruña (y Betanzos)
28August2005
Visited A Coruña Aug26-28, with a trip to Betanzos Aug27. A Coruña is a big industrial town in Galicia, with a huge port and beautiful beach (and the weather was spectacular for bonus points). Betanzos is a small medieval hill-town, complete with thin steep streets; it's recently expanded a great deal but most of the newer development is rather neglected.
Santiago de Compostela
25August2005
Visited Santiago de Compostela Aug23-25. According to legend the cathedral holds the remains of the Apostle James, and has long been a pilgrimage destination. The city is the final stop on the famous 'Way of St James' pilgrimage, a walk along the north of Spain. The cathedral is in the beautiful medieval Old Town.
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World Youth Day 2005
21August2005
Attended WYD2005 in Köln with an Australian group from Sydney. We spent a week on pilgrimage in France, then a week in Köln, with the final weekend spent at the Marienfeld, a huge agricultural field opened up for the occasion.
WYD Updates
19August2005
Currently in Cologne, here for a couple more nights… The atmosphere is amazing, the city has been at a standstill […]
Tripping Europe
06August2005
This is likely my last post around here for a while. I'm off to Paris tomorrow afternoon. For the next […]
JK Rowling Interview
06August2005
Just read this interview with JK Rowling on fansite The Leaky Cauldron. There's three separate pages to it (linked from […]
Woo! Drink Good
03August2005
I knew it… Apparently regular/moderate alcohol is actually good for you. Moderate drinking was defined as 14 to 28 drinks […]
England, Holiday the Third
31July2005
OK, the oft-promised holiday report… Complete with photos in various albums that I'll link to on the way down. I […]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
28July2005
Just finished reading Potter… Much earlier than I expected actually, but I found the book cheap so grabbed it; easy […]
Site Updates
28July2005
Added a proper upload system for the top banner image, so now the 'Wintermute' title is added on upload rather […]
New Domains
26July2005
Bought a bunch of new domains today… None have websites available yet, they'll just redirect to a 'comingsoon' page here […]
More Photos
23July2005
Another 5 albums up today, on top of the 4 yesterday… Included are: Cardiff Castle; 'Touring With Family', a collection […]
Photo Updates
22July2005
Well, they've been a long time coming, but I've finally got some photos uploaded. Plenty more where they came from, […]
'the Jedi Order, the geekiest people in the universe'
20July2005
Neal Stephenson on Star Wars; this is an article from a month ago in the NYTimes. Entertaining for any geeks, […]
Did you sell any goods or services using the Internet?
19July2005
Currently filling out my tax return, and this has got to be one of the stupidest questions ever! The extended […]
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
19July2005
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp do it again. A masterful piece of fantasy with just enough of a dark edge […]
Versailles
16July2005
Visited Versailles one Saturday evening; they open the gardens up, run all the fountains, have a few people running around in costume, and let off fireworks at the end of it all... Couldn't take photos of very much because of the low lighting, but in the sunset it's all very romantic
Connectivity
13July2005
Was in Paris with family when the bombs went off in London, having come through there from England the day […]
Once more unto the brink
11July2005
Just returned from another French bureaucracy nightmare. My Carte de Sejour needs renewing so I can legally stay in the […]
Updates
10July2005
Back home now; supposed to be working on my latest UTS assignment, so of course, I'm getting a few website […]
Touring With Family
08July2005
Travelled with family through England and to Paris in late June - early July. This album includes photos from Old Sarum, Hampton Court, London, Winchester, Glastonbury and Paris. Some of our trips deserved dedicated albums.
Cornwall: Tintagel
03July2005
Spent a couple nights in Cornwall in Boscastle, just down the coast from Tintagel. Tintagel is truely magical, from the little beach and Merlin's Cave to the Dark Ages settlements and medieval castle atop the Head...
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Arundel Castle
01July2005
Visited Arundel Castle, home of the Dukes of Norfolk. It's one of few castles to have been used both as a defensive castle and as a stately home (the family still live there), and with its constant use and extensions over the centuries, it's exactly what a castle is supposed to be.
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Me and 20,000 other hippies
30June2005
Spent the night before the Summer Solstice (June 20-21) at Stonehenge. The only time in the year that you can […]
bourgeois myth
25June2005
“the big wedding of the bourgeoisie, which originates in a class ritual (the display and consumption of wealth), can bear […]
Cardiff
22June2005
Spent a day in Cardiff 22June2005, mainly visiting the Castle and wandering around the town
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Updates
21June2005
I'm sitting in an empty bus somewhere in South-West England as I write this; I will type it up later. […]
Summer Solstice 2005
21June2005
Spent the day before the Summer Solstice at Avebury, which was full of hippies preparing for that night. Was staying in Salisbury with Stonehenge just up the road so spent the night there with a crowd of 10,000. The only time of the year you can touch the stones; the atmosphere was truely awe-inspiring and I hope the images give some idea of what it was like.
Wilton
19June2005
various sites around Wilton; Wilton House's gardens are particularly beautiful, and ridiculously stereotypical -- they're often used to shoot period films
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Reims, Festive
10June2005
A couple separate events from May and June; the city likes to throw a festival and show of its history. In the first case, the anniversary of the German surrender in 1945; the second, the Fetes Johanniques, centered around Joan of Arc's successful entrance into the city and the crowning of the Dauphin, but really just a big 'medieval' event.
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press-ganging alive and well
10June2005
Interesting (read “scary”) article from a Seattle paper — about a kid that Marine recruiters went after. Their tactics are […]
A place amongst the living
07June2005
Je viens de regarder Une place parmi les vivants. C'était… intéressant, un peu bizarre. Un peu de 'film-noir', un peu […]
With Us or Against Us
01June2005
Matt 12:30 “Anyone who is not with me is against me” But also Mark 9:40 “Anyone who is not against […]
It's Non
29May2005
Well the French have called 'Non', currently calling around 55% +/- 2ish. EC Pres Juncker just gave a Press Conference […]
weird search terms 2
23May2005
ok, making this a ?bits category, cos I'm getting so many classic search terms sending people my way…. Currently ranked […]
Updates
20May2005
Been doing some more coding on the site, much of it you can't actually see, but _very_ soon I'll have […]
expensive habits
14May2005
Gonna have trouble adjusting to the different food offerings when I return home — or worse, will go broke trying […]