I have worked for Californian based companies twice, and visited San Francisco a number of times. Sun Microsystems moved its training conference from San Francisco to Las Vegas and so my time in San Francisco became limited to the airport. I can’t remember when and why I stuck this page up, nor why Fodors was…
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We visited Valencia in Sept. 2009. One of the sights we visited was the Americas Cup port and museum. The showdown between Alinghi and BMW/Oracle will now take place off the port of Valencia in February 2010. You can see my pictures in this Valencia set on flickr. The page notes the 2010 America’s cup match which Oracle won…
Read moreSouth of the Island Rally 2009 Lymington to Bembridge, with overnight stays at both ports. My Google Map Rail Time Table Train from Petersfield to Lymington, leave Petersfield at 11 minutes past the hour Sat 02 May Petersfield (PTR) to Havant (HAV) 12:11 -> 0:15 -> 12:26 Havant (HAV) to Southampton Central (SOU) 12:37 ->…
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I looked at traveling through Alicante on the way to Valencia. There was very little flight flexibility, and the trains from Valencia started late on the Sunday, although an overnight stop might have been fun. Minutes after booking a trip via Barcelona, I had the http://www.flybe.com, now gone, site pointed out there are three flights a…
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A city I know well so maybe I should share some stuff with you. The page was probably created as something my then US colleagues at Sun might refer to, but its been a while since I worked there. On this page, I have a google map of my places in the ‘City’ and West…
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My notes, but it’s been a long time since I used it. Jan 2019
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I need to travel to Lyon on business.
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I have set up a google map called About Madrid, and I visited it in order to attend a NESSI Steering Committee in January 2008. This is the first time this century that I have been here, my previous visit was in the 1980’s. My few pictures are on flickr. I returned in Oct 2008,…
Read moreNo longer my nearest hood.
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I hope to travel on a holiday along the German Baltic coast sometime. I shall use my trusty ‘Rough Guide to Germany’ as my first and last reference book. Originally written in 2008, and still not done in 2018, but there’s still time, although I have got rid of the Rough Guide as it was…
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I copied this across on 24th June 2013 and tarted it up a bit. I had another look at the page in 2024 and tried to repair the broken links and added some more stuff. I first visited Seville just before the Easter of 2006. As ever I used the Rough Guide to Andalucia to…
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It’s not as far as either Vancouver or New York, it hosts the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival although Edinburgh is nearer, and its in Canada. The Guardian did a ad-sink article on the city the weekend of 28th October 2006. This is now almost availale at the Guardian Unlimited’s travel site. The ‘beenthere’ page…
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Links Southampton’s Wikipedia entry Where to eat Try Google Maps Indian Restaurants first of four pages Restaurants
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A flying business visit in Spring 2008; and in 2023, I found 21 things to do in Stockholm, from Time Out. Here is Things to do in Stockholm from TripAdvisor. Otherwise, if I go to Stockholm, I need to go to some of these viewpoints. I passed through Arlanda airport on my way to Luleå,…
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Things to do next time The boat trip we took in July ’06 went down the Prinzengracht, with views of the West Kerke and the Pulitzer Hotel, named in “1000 places to see” by Patricia Schultz and adjacent to the Jourdain. Been there three times now, Xmas 2005 and early Summer 2006, and autumn 2008.
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