If at First you do succeed
Fly, Fly again
Just had a lovely shower. Needed it ’n all. Something has to jolt me into action, and out of the automatic stupor I found myself in prior. I’m in Jakarta airport right now and feeling a bit overwhelmed. Let me…
Sleep is wrong
Ozfest
Just woke up for the third time in 14 hours. Feels like the real deal this time. I’ve managed to get a whole ton of sleep, which was incredibly welcome after the day I’d had. So, let’s rewind. Last time…
Darkrun
Back to back overnight flights and a small kip in Melbourne had left me properly deprived, so my body insisted on me sleeping - albeit with a couple of short interruptions - until midday on Friday. The downside of spending…
Hot Dam
Bats entertainment
On Thursday, Alex had suggested a “who can sleep in the latest” competition for Saturday, forgetting about parkrun. I chose to unilaterally play this game on Sunday and, since they’ve discarded last year’s habit of climbing into bed with me…
Millions of beaches, beaches for free
Bondi-ing for a pint
Hmm. For the flight from London to Jakarta (including Heathrow etc) I made 6 pages of notes from which to write my blog. For yesterday’s day out I wrote just 5 lines. This means I’m going to have to rely…
Independence Day
Woke up early on Tuesday. 5am or so. Yawn on the fourth of July ’n that. Rather than try and go back to sleep as I have been doing, this time I had a nice chat with Helen back home.…
Cremorning glory
Spirited away
Very few of the things on this trip have been planned further in advance than 24 hours or so. Really, parkrun and the brewery crawl were the only things on the list prior to the UK. Hence Tuesday night was…
No Crane, No Gain
Ill behaviour
Thursday. My last full day in Sydney on this trip, and maybe for the foreseeable future. Kevin had the day off. What to do? Go get a drink at the only pub/bar on an island in Sydney Harbour, that’s what.…
Pie in the Sky
I’m typing this while onboard a plane. There’s a lot of that coming up. Most annoyingly, right now, there’s loads of turbulence. I’m tempted to leave all typos intact and see just how bad everything turns out. So. Friday. Time…
Bourne again
Skipping town
My 6am alarm did not wake me up on Saturday, but for good reason: I was already awake. Spent a bunch of time chatting with Helen, mostly trying to calm down her vast vast rage fit because she was absolutely…
The Longest Day Newest
Might as well jump
Alarms? Who needs ’em. Neither of mine woke me up on Sunday, because I awoke before them, at about 0330 local time in Jakarta - that is to say, 2130 Saturday night UK time. Figured I might as well get…