Tag: london
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Found GC4ZMV4 Tower Bridge TB HOTEL
This checkin to GC4ZMV4 Tower Bridge TB HOTEL reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick morning expedition with the kids on the way to visit HMS Belfast. Took the ghost TB (didn't see any others); we'll find it somewhere to live in Oxfordshire next week! TFTC.
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Found GC88YXD Sky Garden
This checkin to GC88YXD Sky Garden reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My 6-year-old is obsessed with skyscrapers right now, so we added to the itinerary of our visit to London a trip up to the Sky Garden. The weather wasn't good enough to get out onto the open-air terrace, …
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What's wrong with London's boroughs?
Jay Foreman's back with a long-awaited tenth episode of Unfinished London.
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1. @indiewebcamp London - which I'd planned to attend - is cancelled for #COVID19 😢
2. I'm left with a hotel room I can't cancel 😠
3. Overhear my brother-in-law planning to book a hotel in London 🤔
4. EverythingWentBetterThanExpected.jpg 🤜🤛 -
Under river, outside time: The Woolwich Foot Tunnel Anomaly
Under river, outside time: The Woolwich Foot Tunnel Anomaly (Portals of London) When the Woolwich foot tunnel closed for repairs in 2011, it should have been a routine job. The pathway had been providing pedestrians with a quick route beneath the Thames since 1912. A century o… When the Woolwich foot tunnel closed for repairs …
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Underground and Overground in the City of London
Taking advantage of the new railway station on his doorstep, Dan takes several trips to London, spending them both underground and overground in the City.
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TIL that in 1952, 4,000 people were killed during a five-day smog in London
The Great Smog of London, or Great Smog of 1952, was a severe air-pollution event that affected the British capital of London in early December 1952. A period of cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants—mostly arising from the use of coal—to form a thick layer of smog over the …
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Hello 2013: My Birthday
Dan managed to spend the afternoon of his birthday away from his computer and in the pub... but only because his office caught fire! This, and more from Dan's early-January trip to London.
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London's Olympic "Missile Defence"
As Britain prepares to increase anti-terror measures for the 2012 Olympic Games, Dan observes that putting missile bases into the capital city isn't necessarily the smartest decision.
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Massage
Dan and Ruth go to a couples-massage class and meet a sadist, a Spaniard, and his wife. Then the oil comes out... Wait, are we in the right place?
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Busy Weekends Part III
As if we hadn't been busy enough the weekend before last and the one before that, there's more that I'm only just getting around to blogging! It was only when I thought about writing this up that I realised how much I'd neglected to write about already (and had promised people would be "coming soon"). …
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Dave!!! Highlights From Robin's Birthday
Right now, I'm out in Oxfordshire for this a "code week" - a get-together for the purpose of hacking some code together - for the Three Rings project. That's got nothing to do with this post, but helps to offer a framing device by which I can explain why I was in such proximity to …
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Catch-Up: Concerts
Yes, it's true, I'm bad at blogging. But as we all know, weblogs suck anyway. Regardless: here's the long-awaited catchup of my whereabouts and doings of the last week (as all I'd previously said is that I'd left and that I'd got back again.
Claire and I went to Preston a week last Thursday evening, for … -
Easter In London
I'm back in London again, this Easter. Expect a whole load of people to get told about AvAngel.com, one way or another.
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #46:
Go for two days on minimal sleep (a catnap on the train) and maximum alcohol (the secret joy of the London nightlife)... Well? It's two of my friends birthdays!
The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at …