Entertainment Update – 2019
Unless we’re maintaining some major equipment, like the head, life on Aleta is mostly beer and skittles (or gin and olives as Carol points out). Last year we delved into and made short reviews of some of our pop culture …
The Angle of the Dangle
Position: The Picos de Europa are a series of dramatic limestone mountains 300 million years in the making. They cross northern Spain between Santander and Gijón for about 20 km. A cavernous gorge runs through the middle. A paradise for …
Plate Tectonics, Zardoz, and Cider
Position: 43°32’48″N 5°39’54″W Every schoolchild learns that their world floats on big plates. It’s also obvious to every 10-year-old that the land masses of the world should snap together like a puzzle. As an optimistically precocious urchin, I used to …
11 Fun Things to do in Britain
As fair and balanced as this blog is, it’s time to quit pining for the past and talk about the present. Britain offers an incredible number of cool, fun, and interesting things to do in a very small space. Many …
Anarchy in the U.K.
Having completed our whirlwind tour of the three contiguous countries of the United Kingdom and celebrated my 60th birthday, I’ve got a pretty good sense of how far “Thatcher’s Bloody Britain” has evolved. I was fortunate enough to live in …
Photos: North Wales
Here’s a short collection of photos from our grand tour of North Wales that start in Llandudno, a holiday town at the far west end of Colwyn Bay. Llandudno has a pier that extends well out over the bay with …
Mount Snowdon Wildcard
Position: 53°04’28″N 3°56’39″W The A(road)4086 runs east out of Llanberis and skirts Mount Snowdon, rising steadily until it reaches Pen-y-Pass. Mount Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa in Welsh) is the third tallest peak in the British Isles and the stuff of climbing …
I am not a number! I am a free man!
Position: 52°54’46.96″ N 4°5’55.74″ W Portmerion, Wales, served as the location for one of the greatest cult TV shows from the 1960s, The Prisoner. Ever since I was a kid terrified by the giant beach ball sent to catch would …
Alternator Realities
Position: 38°39’32.5″N 27°12’34.5″W I called my buddy Mark in the United States from the Pirate’s Pub in Angara, Terceira. I told him that I had just met a guy named José on a street corner and handed over my Balmar …