I’m aware this blog is rapidly becoming a collection of videos, but this one is too good not to share.
Fantastic video – great fun and shows off Iceland wonderfully I think.
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Notes From a Moving Train #1
I look up from my iPhone and notice that sitting diagonally opposite me, on the other side of the train, is the friendly guy from my local Apple Store. He sold me the earphones I’m listening to now.
He’s immersed in his iPhone as I was in mine. I wonder where he’s going.
Should I be bothered that I recognise him? Wonder if he recognises me.
Tears On The Train
The woman opposite me on the train is listening to her iPod.
Half way through the trip I happen to look up and see a single tear roll down her cheek.
She notices and wipes away the tear.
No more tears follow.
Minsk By iPhone
I’ve just returned from a short business trip to Minsk in Belarus. As with my trip to New York I failed to take a camera, and so have another set of fuzzy iPhone photos.
Minsk was not what I expected; it felt more like old Europe than old Russia or at least what I imagine old Russia to be like. I’m due to return in April but frankly the fights back were so bad I’m unlikely to; check out the last photo – my knees still hurt.
UK Snow
The UK has been plunged into snowy chaos this week with some of the lowest temperatures I can remember, and up to 2 feet of snow in some places. Where I live we have four to six inches of snow, but even that has still made it impossible to drive; the main roads are passable, but the roads around our house are now frozen, compacted snow and thus very slippery. Even getting on and off the driveway has proved tricky.
For the last two days I have worked from home, but today I made it into the office in London where the is no snow; not a single flake. I commute by train and there is deep, crisp and even snow all the way down from my home to Euston station in North London, but not a flake to be seen in the West End. As I sit here it’s hard to believe that there is so much snow at home.
This stunning image from NASA shows just how snowy the UK is this week:
Dedicated to the City
I was talking with a friend recently about cities; their similarities, their differences and what defines them. It struck me that cities are so much more than places and people; cities themselves have their own character and personality.
It is this character, this personality that makes a city almost like a person. As with people you might get on with that personality or you might not.
Sometimes a city will grow on you, sometimes you know you will never like a city and sometimes it will be love at first sight.
Over the last few years I have definitely realised I am a city person, not that I don’t love the country and I will always love the coast, but cities and me we have an understanding.
In the words of Underworld Mmm Skyscraper I Love You.