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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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]