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dart. mouth.

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

We didn’t get tickets for Glastonbury this year, so to soothe the trauma of our loss we instead treated ourselves to a few days away in the lovely town of Dartmouth.

Highlights include the boat trip to Totnes, a meal at the Michelin star restaurant “The New Angel” (all 11 insanely delicious courses of it), and a lot of beer (for me) and wine (for Abby) in a lot of lovely pubs.

Go there, it’s fab. That there white house in the picture is where Agatha Christie lived! I know!

On the River DartOn the River Dart

On the river Dart

hol-god not again

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

So I took a load of photos with my Holga when I was in New York a couple of months ago.

Then I did my usual thing of waiting ages between taking the pics and getting them processed. Bored of waiting I went into the local snappy snaps style place and asked if they could process 120 film, and was assured they could.

Quite why, in that case, all the photos came out with strange lines and artefacts on them I have no idea – but I probably won’t use that particular place again…

Holga New York

dubai on the fly

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

I’m now back from my work trip to Dubai, and I’m going to share my wisdom and experience with you, my faithful readers, whether you like it or not.

Basically I arrived, worked, then flew back, so you can imagine I had a wide and varied experience which involved seeing almost entirely the inside of hotels and absolutely nothing else.

From my previous post you’ll have seen that I might have had a moment or two to spend in a jacuzzi overlooking Dubai creek, which I suppose was alright, if you like that kind of thing. Which I do!

Since all I saw was the hotel, I’ll tell you about the room. It was a five star hotel so the room was nicely appointed and the bed was comfortable beyond belief! One odd thing though – the bathroom and bedroom were separated by a glass window.

Crown Plaza hotel,  Dubai

Now I don’t know about you but I don’t want my wife to watch me having a poo – and I most certainly don’t want to watch her – I’m sure that’s a thing some people enjoy but as Alan Partridge would say, “They’re sex people Lynne!”

Moving on, when at the hotel I mostly saw it during the hours of darkness as I was working during the day. It looked better at night including the view in the distance of the ludicrous Burj Dubai, by a long way the tallest building in the world. Visible below, it’s the lit up tower to the left of the image in the distance

Burj Dubai,  Dubai creek

Finally because I apparently go away on work and always take a photo of a big wheel, here is a photo of a big wheel.

Big wheel,  Dubai Festival City

Any questions on Dubai? Ask me, obviously I’m an expert.

up the creek

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

So I find myself in Dubai working for a few days, which sounds good but isn’t since I’ve had next to no time to myself to do anything.

Having said that, there are a few benefits…

Dubai Creek

All I need to do now is pray that the ash cloud doesn’t stop me from flying home!

More on Dubai when I’m home.