D-Mang's Travels
Sunday, 30 January 2011
Rollin on dubs in Dublin!
Monday, 10 January 2011
Triumphant Return!
Sunday, 5 December 2010
How I $pend My Time
I’ve kept track of the time that I spend on different forms of transportation: trains, buses, boats, and planes during my trips.
And here are some nice figures showing that data, Enjoy!
The bar graphs gives you a nice overview of how much time I've spent in transit.
I put in a pie chart cause really, who doesn't like a pie chart, even though they are stupid because they are qualitative. Is the blue one bigger than the green one? Is the yellow one half the red one? The bar graph knows!
This one is my favorite. It shows how much travelling I have done and when, but also how my travel mode habits have changed. While its not exactly what I wanted, its pretty close.
Peace out!
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
I left my gloves on a bus in London
Ello ello ello there.
I’ve now been to both capitals of the two countries that founded
Since it was a Saturday I went out on a pub crawl for some
After a great night of clubbing, of course there is parliament building to see. Great weather made walking around
Just incase you forgot they do everything backwards here, a convenient reminder.
And some great flying buttresses at
Buckingham palace, pretty unimpressive, apparently it wasn't made to be a palace… ya okay… The
Some afternoon sun presented with some great lighting for pictures.
The back side of Parliament.
The
Next stop the British museum, to see some world famous Greek and Roman sculpture, which I seem to have developed quite a liking for. The Greeks were much more skillful than the Romans, and like the current
And instead of showing you dozens of statues and pieces of buildings, which you can’t really appreciate, I’ll show you the roof! Its really sweet, made for the Queen or whatever.
A return to the
Ahh and here is what most of the
I also got lucky and happened upon a tube strike the second day, so it was time for the bus, which was insanely busy, as was the rest of the city since everyone had to walk to work that day.
I hung out with some Aussi’s I met on a tour who were quick to point out my terrible pronunciation of British words, such as ‘Leicester’ is said ‘Lester’, which is stupid.
Until we speak again...