On our recent trip to Las Vegas I was lucky enough to insinuate myself onto a guided tour of a fascinating and overlooked piece of Sin City’s heritage, the Neon Boneyard. It was an extremely near-miss, owing to my propensity to not really know what day or time it was, but luckily just that week [...]
Entries Tagged as 'travel'
The sounds, the sights, the flashing lights
November 4th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: excess · history · las vegas · neon · pretty · visual
Why am I not surprised?
October 29th, 2008 No Comments
This could be interesting. Am en route to Dublin for work today - I love an early flight. The first part of the plan came off ok: the waking up at 6:30 bit. Getting to Victoria station was straightforward. Getting the quarter-hourly Gatwick Express? Am not sure whether it’s Sod’s Law, or comeuppance for my [...]
Tags: British efficiency · inevitable
Come on, grandma needs a new set of teeth!
October 9th, 2008 No Comments
Aside from waxing enthusiastic about the size of our hotel room, I don’t suppose I said much about our trip to Vegas, did I?
Funny old place, Las Vegas - used to be a nice grassy place due to its nearby underground water sources, and quite a well-positioned cattle ranch as a result of it. [...]
Tags: america · bacchanalian · bewildering · gambling · las vegas · massive steak
Looking for the white rabbit
September 13th, 2008 No Comments
It has to be said - relaxing in a classy hotel room is wayyyy better than dragging one’s sorry exhausted arse through cattle-class flights & unfriendly airports.
Presently I’m sitting in our loungeroom at the Trump International Tower, looking out across Downtown and over into the mountains. Our room is amazing. Seriously, this is [...]
Tags: las vegas · ludicrous hotel
Concourse blogging
September 12th, 2008 No Comments
G’day thrillseekers!
You can tell when I’m bored when I start blogging things as I’m actually doing them. In a fit of disastrous forward planning, I’ve got 6 hours to kill in Dulles Washington Airport, on my way to Las Vegas. It hasn’t taken long to ascertain that Dulles is in fact nowhere usefully near to [...]
Tags: dulles · I'm running on vapour Mav! · purgatory
Rrrrrock et rrroll!
July 21st, 2008 No Comments
It’s not as often as I’d like that I get the chance to do a random quick dash out to Europe based on a wafer-thin premise, however Big Pete’s insistence that we go to an Iron Maiden gig provided just that impetus! Admittedly we could have gone to Twickenham, but they only had shite [...]
Tags: hiking · Iron Maiden · Jim Morrison · Paris · sighteeing
Hot springs? Tick. Midnight sun? Tick. Ice and snow? Not so much.
July 8th, 2008 4 Comments
I’m a big fan of careering off on illogical adventures at relatively short notice, so when my housemate James asked me about a fortnight ago if I wanted to come to Reykjavik for a free Bjork gig I mightily hit the “YES” button with mahoosive portions of enthusiasm.
The first thing to hit me about Iceland [...]
Tags: bjork · cultural enrichment · eels · holiday · iceland · puffin · sigur ros · travel