Author: Keith

Managed to get most of “Ben’s Travels” completed this weekend. Its doubly useful – firstly I’ve been meaning to get ben’s site sorted for ages, but I’ll be able to reuse the code and layout for other parts of the travel section – particularly the photo galleries from Prague, Tallinn, Stockholm and (new!!) Rome. We’ve… Continue reading Ben’s travels

Finally, it looks like we’re getting somewhere with the interminable redesign. After donkeys fiddling about, its finally close to a useful design. Hurrah. Now I just need to fix the practicalities.

A travellers caution. Beware all forms of transport not involving your legs! A brief list of our travel woes: No train service on Sundays to Stansted for…umm…the forseeable future (track ‘maintenance’, hmmpf) The 7:45 National Express/Airbus A6 to Stansted, which helpfully left at 7:30 without bothering to announce this to the 15 or so passengers… Continue reading Travellers’ caution

No, I’m not tired of that joke yet. Well, we’re back from Rome, and it was an amazing place. You can’t chuck a meatball without hitting some massively grand 2000-year old monolith/ruin/building/pope. Fantastic. We spent a couple of days wandering about, having first taken a 2-hour bus trip around the city, to get our bearings.… Continue reading Wome – Wonderful Wome

Holiday time. This time to Rome, for a few days of culture. Actually, culture be damned, gimme the pavement cafes, or indoor cafes, or anywhere I can pontificate into a bottle of red and I’ll be fine. The Rome report will follow…