Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
This weekend I did a two-day slalom workshop with Naomi Grigg. I’ve never done slalom before so while the others were learning new cone dodging tricks like the Sun, the Marbrook and the Crazy, I was doing more basic stuff. First I mastered forward criss-cross, then I started working on backwards criss-cross, and I also [...]
In Washington DC we stayed in Hotel Rouge, a luxury boutique hotel about 10 minutes’ walk north of the White House. I found the hotel online via searching on Google and the New York Times, checked out the reviews from other travellers on Trip Advisor, and then booked via the hotel website. It’s a good [...]
Last night was the birthday celebration for Andrew (hubby of Jess). We kicked off the festivities with bowling at Queensway. The last time I went bowling was about a month ago at the Media Guardian Christmas party. I managed to disgrace myself with a series of gutter balls and a total score about 32. This [...]
Pantomime is a Christmas tradition in Britain. It involves retelling well-known stories – such as Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Puss in Boots – and lots of cross-dressing and bawdy humour. The humour usually works on two levels – slapstick humour for the kiddies and knowing innuendo for their parents. Sometimes the adult jokes [...]
Before Christmas, my boyfriend and I went to Washington DC for a few days for a mini-break. We caught the train from Penn Station, which is a nice way to travel, but also slightly frustrating because the Americans buy expensive high-speed tilt trains from the Europeans and then hobble them so they don’t tilt in [...]
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