Alex Lomas

November 22, 2008

Barcelona Photos

Sorry about the photo quality, I only took my compact with me on this trip.

June 21, 2008

The SM Café

Not only does it have a funny name, but they suggest that you "Drink Yourself Happy"...

March 9, 2008

RAF Welford

I passed a very well built sliproad on the M4 just before J13 today. What really caught my eye was the trusty enigmatic sign "Works Unit Only" albeit done in the military red pattern.

A quick check on Live Maps found me my sliproad - following it up the hill reveals RAF Welford, the largest munitions dump in Europe (apparently).

Cool :)

December 30, 2007

Christmas Cottaging

July 28, 2007

More the pictures!

From France:

From Kew:

June 26, 2007

New York Photos

I've posted some photos of NY up in the gallery - sorry the quality isn't great, they were taken on my phone as I didn't want to bring my SLR with me. Hopefully i'll get back here sometime soon when I have more time on my hands.

Oh, and if you're looking for a Gallery2 upload client for Vista, take a look at Pix2Gallery2- it's not entirely bug free, but it'll do!

June 23, 2007

Nike+ watches: update

As I happened to be passing Niketown on 5th Avenue this morning, I popped in and enquired when I'd be able to get my mitts on the new Nike running watches (Aero+, Flight+ etc.).

The guy there told me "within the next two months, but I'm not supposed to tell". Oh well :)

Two months to wait then!

March 31, 2007

Curacao

Well, we're just back from a couple of weeks in Curacao for our honeymoon (a post about the wedding to follow) and you can see the pictures up in the gallery.

I'm going to write a travel guide for Curacao in the near future but to summarise it: nice weather, nice people, nice landscape, crap taxi drivers, poor food.

November 9, 2006

CURAÇAO!!!!

Our honeymoon is booked, and we're off to Curacao in the Dutch Antilles.

It's a very, very long way away and we're both looking forward to it immensely. I can't wait!

Just in case you have no idea where it is:

October 26, 2006

Caesar Twins

My boyfriend and I saw them at the Edinburgh festival over the summer, they were excellent :)

October 18, 2006

Amsterdam Marathon

There are some pictures from my trip to lovely Amsterdam up at LokiFoto - only a few of them, but they're pretty good I think :)

August 28, 2006

New Photos

When you find an old memory stick on your camera, you never quite know what you're going to find. I've posted the rather electic mix up in the gallery - there's everything from Edinburgh at night and a rather sparkly new Atomium in Brussels to sheep in a city farm...

August 12, 2006

Edinburgh

There are some photos of my trip to Edinburgh last week up in the gallery.

The weather was rubbish, so I didn't get to go hot air ballooning :(

July 31, 2006

£2m porn

It's good to see that the taxpayer spent such a vast amount of money on ancient pornography.

The warren cup is actually rather beautiful:

July 27, 2006

Fucking Hotels

I have just discovered that the hotel we were going to stay at in a couple of weeks' time (Malmaison in Edinburgh) doesn't include breakfast in its rates. This is despite the fact that we're paying not an insignificant amount of money per night.

This seems to be a growing trend with hotels. Why on earth should they make you spend £20 a head on breakfast - which consists of a few stale rolls, some cheese and incipid coffee - when you're spending £200 a night.

To be honest, I wouldn't normally be so annoyed, however in this case Malmaison don't make it obvious that their prices are "rooms only". If they did, then I certainly wouldn't have booked with them.

Now it's too late to cancel and find another room (especially as it's festival time), we'll just go out and buy some milk and cereal and take liberties with the tea & coffee making facilities.

Utter, utter cunts.

June 12, 2006

Lazy Saturday photos

Some photos I took a couple of weeks ago. They're all from the woodland next to where we live.

May 16, 2006

5 days in France

I'm just back from a few days at my parent's house near Bergerac in south west France.

Some pictures for you are up in the gallery

Some highlights:

An anatomically correct strawberry

A coal powered machine for making booze out of prunes

April 29, 2006

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside

We went to Portsmouth today. We went on a crappy boat trip around the harbour and got cold. We ate cake and went paddling. Then we came home. All in all, quite a pleasant day.

Clicky for more pics:

February 20, 2006

Grey

Brussels is grey.

That's about it, I'd forgotten that Brussels is such a dreadful place that it's actually fun. Don't get me wrong, it's not going to make you cry, it's just that it makes you glad that you actually live in London for once.

Grey

The plus points were Eurostar, although the security screening at Waterloo left much to be desired - incompetent, surly staff that threw your bags around and then asked whether the magnetometer had gone off as you walked through because they weren't paying attention.

Oh, and the Atomium looks much nicer, although as it had only reopened after a two year closure the day we were there, we didn't bother queueing to go in again.

December 29, 2005

December in Berlin

We've had a really great week in Berlin, very relaxing, and lots of fun. The pleasure was hightened by the fact that it was nice and warm with working heating and hot water, which is more than can be said of the miserableness of our flat here in London (stupid broken boiler).

At least we did have snow in Berlin, so no need for fake snow flocking on our tree:

We had Christmas dinner at an exceptionally expensive restaurant (I don't think I've ever spent €300 / £200 on dinner before, although a third of it did go on a single bottle of wine). Food was fabulous; all 7 courses of it.

At the other scale, we have Fritz & Co. (Currywurst and Pommes) in Wittenbergplatz which comes in at an order of magnitude less in price, but (dare I say it) just as nice!

November 11, 2005

New district line trains

Because I don't use the tube that often, it's only today that I've been on one of the very small number of refurbished district line trains:

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October 21, 2005

Photographic Map of London

Superb: http://www.streetsensation.co.uk/

September 22, 2005

Knife Surrender Bin

Pray tell, why has a "knife surrender bin" appeared outside of Mark's & Spencer's on Earls Court Road? Has there been a sudden spate of street robberies involving carving knives?

August 22, 2005

Warsaw Roundup

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Having just spent a weekend baking in the heat of Warsaw, here are some ideas of what to do over there in the summer:

Lazienki Park
- Vast park near the centre of Warsaw, very popular. Has lots of cafés an ice cream shops as well as red squirrels. Few toilets though!
Wilanów Park
- The palace of Wilanów was built in the French style with lots of fussy gardens. It's nice and cool in the summer and has rowing boats you can hire out to go out onto the river with. The best part is the branch of Wedel's café outside the gates.
University Biblioteka

Why does Imperial not have a library with a roof garden as awesome as this? Go and enjoy then have lunch in their cheap, but excellent, cafeteria. Open to all.

June 13, 2005

Edinburgh Review

We've just spent the last few days up in Edinburgh - purportedly to go hot air ballooning but sadly the Scottish weather let us down. If you're so inclined, some of the better pictures are up in the Gallery.

So therefore, I thought I'd do a little review of things to do and not to do in Edinburgh:

- Whisky Tour Skip straight past that bloody castle and the thousands of tourists and go and get sloshed. It's worth paying for the extra tasting session in the bar at the end as well. Very informative, fun and most importantly, involves Scotch eau d'vie.

- Raj Restaurant on the Shore in Leith Avoid, avoid, avoid. Dreadful place which on the surface appears to be an excellent modern Indian; actually turns out to be an eye-watering backwater with surly, incompetent and forgetful staff.

- Smoke Stack (Broughton Street and also in Leith) Fab staff, quite meat centric but well worth a visit. Very high quality food at pretty reasonable prices.

- Sala gay cafe bar The tapas was excellent, cheap and the place was filled with pretty boyz. What more could you ask for?!

- Ardmor House hotel If you're gonna stay anywhere, stay here. Small but well decorated, it's in a quieter part of the city but only 15-20 minutes from Broughton Street and 30 to Princes Street. Breakfast is ace.

March 7, 2005

Berlin

Pictures from our trip to Berlin last week up in my gallery.

A prize to the first person who can tell me what's wrong with one of the pictures...

March 6, 2005

Quickie

A quick update to see in March... Back from Berlin and should have a house all sorted! Moving in a week or so, so will post again when we're in :)

December 31, 2004

Pictures a France

A couple of vaguely decent pictures from St. Emilion taken last week:

This first one is a view from the top of the town, and was an experiment with a polarising filter. Turned out ok with a bit of fiddling in photoshop.

This other one is the castle there shrouded in mist (or is it smoke?)

August 15, 2004

Sorry...

Been a sodding long time since I posted anything.

A few pictures from my trip to Amsetrdam here.

Oh, and I've sorted commenting out (I hope).

June 18, 2004

France

I'm back!

Well, it's been a couple of days actually, but I couldn't be bothered to write something up here. Sorry.

There are some photos of my trip here.

June 5, 2004

Oh, and another thing...

I'm off to 100 years war territory next week (Aquitaine), so I'll post something when I'm back.

February 19, 2004

Let the thawing begin!

We're back all safe and sound from Poland. Although it snowed a bit, it was starting to thaw so it was mainly covered in a grey slush. If you're thinking of paying a visit, I'd wait until summer if I were you.

It was nice to see the family again in their lovely new house, the dog is looking pretty spritely for a 13 year old and I managed to break their computer (it was already on its last legs so technically not my fault) but reconstruct a new one.

Krak󷠷as nice, the salt mine tour did go on for hours, although the tour guide was as mad as a box of otters which provided some entertainment. But then, he does come from the same group of people that carved out a massive underground cathedral from salt, so it's not entirely surprising.

Oh, I think I promised you pictures of us looking cold. Best I can do:

Alex | Steve

February 14, 2004

A travelling we go...

We're off to the rather picturest and pleasant town of Krakow next week.

Expect plenty of pictures of us looking very cold, the Pope's old church and the insides of a salt mine.

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