Spotted in Krakow last weekend.
Rose at Krakow castle. I’ll post another picture or two over the next couple of days, but you can see more of Krakow here if you’re feeling keen.
The road from Krakow to Auschwitz
Auschwitz I
Birkenau disembarkation point
A ‘dormitory’ at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Hap snapped this picture of Rose and me in Tonbridge Castle car park last weekend trying to find somewhere to stay for the night (using a combination of an OS map and a wifi connection to my phone).
I was successful in finding places, but not ones with any spare rooms at such short notice. At least, not before my phone’s battery ran out. It was tired after a long day of being my SatNav.
Incidentally, Quentin’s theory of technological linguistics says that a technology is truly pervasive when you no longer capitalise it. How would you write ‘satnav’?
We had dinner in Ely tonight and walked around the cathedral afterwards in a wonderful, autumnal mist. I only had my little pocket camera with me, but got a nice photo or two by doing things like setting the timer and using Hap’s hat as a tripod (which works better when he isn’t wearing it, by the way).
A couple of others here.
From our long drive to New York last week, a sight you don’t often see in the UK…
Note the bottom right-hand corner of the SatNav: “Turn in 242 miles”.
Oh, and it turned out really to be more of a lane-change.
There’s a nice demonstration of a ‘vanishing point’ as you come up the stairs in Apple’s 5th Avenue Store in New York.
Rose met Henry VIII (or at least, experienced what it might have been like!) in the Met. This is one of his suits of armour.
For those not familiar with the finer points of operation of the British postbox, the little metal label just above the slot is changed by the postman on each visit, to indicate the day of the next collection. This one got inverted by mistake, making it appear as if our local service might be rather prompter than usual!
We weren’t the only people enjoying the Delacorte mechanical clock in Central Park last week…
I drove from Pittsburgh back to Detroit a couple of days ago. Five hours of, frankly, not very interesting roads, relieved only by a good selection of podcasts and a rather splendid sunset somewhere near the Ohio/Michigan border.
For those following its progress, Rose’s book is now generally available in the States. We found it on the shelves of a Borders in Ann Arbor this morning.
It’s also starting to appear in other forms. Those with a Sony eBook Reader can find it here, while those who prefer audiobooks and have a fair bit of cash to spare can get 14 enjoyable hours of listening here. I quite like the CD cover:
The official launch & signing is in Allen Park, Michigan, on Saturday.
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