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InterRail
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3rd May 201213th May: Stormy TravelIt's Thursday 13th May 2010. I'm in Marseille, hanging out by a huge 'basilica' called Notre-Dame de la Garde. Yesterday I got to Marseille, but it wasn't easy. It was a bit of a shambles actually - I hope all travelling days aren’t going to be this bad. I got up early, breakfasted and left for the station. I was really feeling the weight of my bags, so I waited 20 minutes for a bus which was full to the brim. Being you're laden down is the perfect reason for catching a bus, but it makes you feel uncomfortable getting on a ...
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2nd September 201111th May: Alpine ThunderAfter a lengthy break, I briefly return to my InterRail Travel Log. This post continues from the last post, when I was on my way to Grenoble. [Side note: read up about the city on Wikipedia, if you'd like. It's a beautiful one and I'd love to return] Wow, it's been ages since I updated! Although it’s only Tuesday. Because I’m writing texts and emails to people about the same stuff, it feels like I’ve already written this. The last bit of the TGV ride from Paris was really slow. At some times we were going barely 20mph, and one time we stopped. ...
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7th June 201110th May: On the TrainNotes on my trip on TGV 6917. Non-stop from Paris-Gare de Lyon to Grenoble, departing at 11:38. According to Wikitravel, the journey is about 640 km long, or about 400 miles. There are so many parked up TGVs. Even some mail ones! How come, whenever I travel by train, I always have to sit fucking close to a crying baby? Fuck it. The interior of the train is pleasant. Rather than tables that you see on Mk 3s and 4s in Britain, here the tables fold out at your pleasure. There are also lights above the seats like on a ...
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6th June 201110th May: BullshitIt’s Monday. I’m on a non-stop TGV from Paris to Grenoble. Yesterday was a farce. Let me explain. After writing my last entry, at the Louvre end of the Jardin des Tuileries, I took a leisurely stroll to the opposite end of the gardens (by Place de la Concorde) to use the toilets. They weren’t particularly nice toilets and you had to pay to use them - I knew, because I’d been when I came with school in 2008 - but everyone needs a place to piss, the gardens are nice to walk though, so I didn't grumble... until I got there. They ...
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9th May 2011Revised ScheduleNobody could have predicted... I don't have enough time to post my travel log in 'real time' any more. By that, I mean posting each entry exactly 1 year ((= 365 days.)) after I first wrote it. I thought I was going to be able to handle it but I was wrong. And for that, I am sorry. Digitising the one or two thousand words which I wrote every day during my trip ((The days so far have been sporadic, but that's because it took a while to get up to speed with the writing when I was away. Things became more ...
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About Wilf's Blog
I'm a mathematician, but apart from that, I'm a fairly normal guy. I used to write a blog - this blog. I write (wrote) about whatever is on my mind. It can get quite personal sometimes.
