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Can always count on Gav…..

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

….for a chuckle.
I’m sitting in Houston Intercontinental Airport. Tired, bored, and fed up with the prospect of yet another flight onwards to San Diego. It’s been a long 20hours or so since I got out of bed this morning (or yesterday?) – Stirling. Edinburgh Airport. New York Newark Airport – where the Customs and Border [...]

Are you feeling lazy? – Mark Beaumont didn’t.

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

I was in the cinema the other evening and saw a short little Orange advert about him (you can’t go to the cinema anywhere in the world without seeing something ‘Orange’). It charts the journey of Mark Beaumont – from Scotland no less – as he circumnavigated the globe on his bicylce faster than anyone [...]

The Lurgy

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

It happens every now and then. Usually I expect it to happen after a flight, one of those (usually long haul) where the coughing fit is sat in the seat directly behind or in front. But more often than not it just creeps up, as it did this time. Although I expect the attempt at [...]

Back home in Scotland

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

03.50 alarm, 04.30 get in the car for airport, 06.45 depart San Diego, arrive in JFK New York at 3.00. Then a delightful 8 HOURS!! spent wandering a terminal as boring as any i’ve been through.