travels with an ageing punkrocker/publisher
Soundtrack: “Departure”, R.E.M. Of course I was up before the alarm, at least an hour before. The whole travel day body clock thing is good, I guess, but when I’m setting an alarm to give me more time than I need, and then a second alarm in case anything goes wrong with the first, surely I’ve got enough conscious measures […]
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Soundtrack: “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”, U2 Today was probably my least prepared border crossing ever (I’m ignoring Schengen Zone crossings, because they don’t even feel like you’re in a different country, those ones are like, oh, we just drove around a roundabout and have now been in 5 countries: if I don’t have to stop and […]
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Soundtrack: “Kong Foo Sing”, Regurgitator Monday, time to wander, eat, shop. I’m not sure when the last time I managed close to 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep on this trip, but last night my body got the memo and came to the slumber party. I still felt tired when I work, but less tired than some mornings, maybe it was […]
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Soundtrack: “Sunday Morning”, The Velvet Underground Sunday, day of rest, day of recovering from two very long days with late nights. Despite hoping that my body would step up, do the right thing and grant me many hours of sleep, it didn’t, and I was awake again and thinking about breakfast earlier than I hoped. It shows how tired I […]
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Soundtrack: [intentionally left blank] I don’t know how, given the time my head hit the pillow, that I was awake before the alarm. Possibly the magic of travel brain, that just kicks in to make sure I don’t oversleep and miss a flight (even when I also set two alarms to make sure). I’d given myself plenty of time to […]
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