Been there, done that, still gloating...
Monday, 27 October 2014
Home again, home again, jiggety-jig.
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All those people, and there were many, who said to me in the US, "Oh, New Zealand's on my bucket list, everyone says how beautifu...
Friday, 24 October 2014
A train then a plane
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Morning brought Nevada: parched, scrubby and flat, dotted with salt flats and encircled by bare hills that when the sun rose took shape l...
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Going west
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Today was one of those out-of-the-loop days that you sometimes get when you’re travelling – but not that confused airplane blur when you ...
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Goodbye to Chicago
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It was another bright sunny morning so I was up early, striding the pavement along with all the wage-s laves clutching their coffees, whi...
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
Fine things
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At the risk of sounding like that character – Cecil, was it? – in A Room with a View who boasts about how long he spent looki...
Monday, 20 October 2014
Ten, and less, out of ten
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I felt like a local today in Lincoln Park, exchanging friendly greetings with the tall black man with the warm brown voice and the litt...
Sunday, 19 October 2014
Second City stars
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It seems a service too far, but sometimes hotels include a set of scales in their bathrooms. This trip, however, the irresistible tempt...
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