tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55836937847810257962024-03-16T08:08:17.401+01:00Little Rabbit's PlanetUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger430125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-74235325474684945612018-04-01T19:50:00.001+02:002018-04-01T19:51:41.059+02:00Planning Summer 2018: Booking ferriesIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
Myeah. It's time to book the ferries, or rather, it's gone time. Last I checked, a mere six weeks ago, ferry dates for Cape Breton to Newfoundland were not open. Now, all the niceAnfenwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16203768296883938536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-51552254555661987432018-02-15T12:32:00.000+01:002018-02-15T12:32:54.990+01:00Planning Summer 2018: Hiking on the Avalon PeninsulaIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
From Wikipedia: Cape Spear Lighthouse
Weather permitting, we'll go for some proper hiking on this day, and do as little driving as possible. The plan is to catch up with the East Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-36715156897735751862018-02-13T18:05:00.000+01:002018-02-15T12:33:16.986+01:00Planning Summer 2018: Avalon Peninsula, NewfoundlandIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
The Avalon Peninsula is that little bit of Newfoundland that projects out of its south-eastern corner, almost forming an island. You could argue that the Avalon Peninsula itself Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-5823957359079876422018-02-12T18:19:00.000+01:002018-02-12T18:19:55.744+01:00Heathrow Terminal 5: in which I say nice things about an airport!!!This isn't about travel planning at all, it's about my little trip to Heathrow Terminal 5 yesterday. I really went to have brunch with Mike as he was passing through on his way between Texas and France, but while I was there I did some photo-sketching experiments with my iPad.
These Heathrow Acrobats are a work in progress - if you look hard, you might find where I'm still messing about with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-47685772897929386012018-02-10T11:56:00.000+01:002018-02-10T11:56:52.533+01:00Planning Summer 2018: About TrainsIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
I'm taking a break from planning for a couple of days, but I did make these interesting charts comparing the train rides we'll be taking with some familiar standards.
This chart Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-29570212037770131042018-02-09T14:25:00.000+01:002018-02-09T14:25:07.721+01:00Planning Summer 2018: Cape Breton National ParkIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
From Wikipedia: Ingonish Beach. BTW, the author of this photo, Tango7174, has contributed many professional quality photographs to Wikipedia. Thanks, Tango.
Sometimes, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-89412455619744929212018-02-08T16:37:00.001+01:002018-02-08T16:37:29.140+01:00Planning Summer 2018: Louisbourg, Nova ScotiaIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
From Wikipeda: Main Street from the reconstructed part of Louisbourg Fortress.
Louisbourg Fortress looks to be Nova Scotia's prime attraction: the recommendation is to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-57500562776234672342018-02-08T08:32:00.000+01:002018-02-08T08:32:20.689+01:00Planning Summer 2018: New Brunswick to Nova Scotia via Prince Edward IslandIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
What we really need to do on Monday the 30th of July is drive from Moncton in New Brunswick to Nova Scotia. Originally, we were heading for Cape Breton, which is about 500 km away. In Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-57197856897895647062018-02-07T10:12:00.000+01:002018-02-07T10:12:01.744+01:00Planning Summer 2018: Fundy National ParkIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
Fundy National Park map, with my hiking choices picked out with mauve dots.
On Sunday 29 July, we plan to spend a full day hiking in Fundy National Park. Planning for it is reallyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-36274834783490668822018-02-06T09:12:00.002+01:002018-02-06T10:22:36.350+01:00Planning Summer 2018: Arriving in MonctonIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
Moncton from the sky: a sea of asphalt!
This is the continuation of the planning for Saturday July 28, when we arrive in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, in the middle of the day, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-25666969329021344382018-02-05T17:38:00.000+01:002018-02-05T17:39:32.534+01:00Planning Summer 2018: Making an Annotated Japanese TimelineIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
This is a useful little strategy for finding your feet in a new culture: Take a standard timeline of the place's history and annotate it with stuff you already know, things that seem Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-37918496672697620252018-02-04T10:46:00.001+01:002018-02-05T17:39:20.483+01:00Planning Summer 2018: the finer details of JapanIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
From my last trip: a small and not very typical part of the gardens in Narita Temple. Come to think of it, it strikes me that this bit of garden design is in the European styleUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-43305626104351292472018-02-02T23:46:00.001+01:002018-02-02T23:48:38.444+01:00Planning Summer 2018: Driving in JapanIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
Renting a car in Japan should be easy, but it gets a little more complicated if you're already international (what doesn't?)
Examples of French driver's licenses that will be Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-30044968269006008022018-02-01T21:30:00.001+01:002018-02-01T21:30:17.578+01:00Planning Summer 2018: Why we're not going to Niagara FallsIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
While I was sorting out my photos I dug up this old picture of Niagara Falls in the kind of weather you get in real life.
The only reason we're not going to Niagara Falls is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-10928623963346480592018-01-31T15:00:00.004+01:002018-01-31T15:00:58.310+01:00Planning Summer 2018: making space for more photosIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
I spent the morning yesterday (not an hour) figuring out how to transfer hundreds of photos from IPads and Androids to my laptop, so that I would have room to take more of them. I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-11321974306323710372018-01-30T14:55:00.001+01:002018-01-30T15:06:20.451+01:00Planning Summer 2018: Getting home via the Blue Lagoon, IcelandIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
I took this photo at the Blue Lagoon, back in 2004. It looks really vintage now!
For some years, the least expensive way to get from the East Coast of the US to London has Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-19399084594661649772018-01-29T12:47:00.002+01:002018-01-29T12:47:46.293+01:00Planning Summer 2018: Choosing a Japan Rail PassIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
From Wikipedia: Nikko... shall I, or shan't I? Oh... I did.
For a visitor to Japan, checking the benefits of a Japan Rail Pass should be practically a reflex reaction. A 7-day or Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-48125128348725798732018-01-28T18:41:00.000+01:002018-01-29T12:22:32.017+01:00Planning Summer 2018: Quebec to Moncton on ViaRail's OceanIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
From Wikipedia: The Ocean, in the kind of weather you really get!
Getting to the station
On Friday July 27 to Saturday July 28, we ride the Ocean overnight train from Montreal toUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-14135380106579736682018-01-27T17:01:00.000+01:002018-05-27T00:23:46.853+02:00Still planning Day 22, Summer 2018: The AdirondackIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
From Google: the 'trench in the trees' and a Canadian border post, about 20km west of the train crossing.
The Adirondack from New York to Montreal
(Updated: 7.34) 8.15 - the Anfenwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16203768296883938536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-48032542715418573152018-01-26T13:41:00.000+01:002018-05-27T00:21:52.749+02:00Planning Day 22, Summer 2018: Beauty and the BeastIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
From Wikipedia: Interior of 30th Street Station
Today, I turn my attention to those fiddly connection issues that go with train journeys. On Monday July 19, Mike and I take the Anfenwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16203768296883938536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-27084783879469866042018-01-25T18:10:00.000+01:002018-01-25T18:11:27.716+01:00Planning for summer 2018: Still TokyoIn the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
From Wikipedia: Ueno Park in spring, which is not when we'll be visiting, by a long shot.
It occurred to me last night that I’d forgotten to check the location of cinemas in TokyoUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-68536641679325864652018-01-24T19:56:00.002+01:002018-01-24T23:16:53.818+01:00Planning for summer 2018: Tokyo
In the past, we've only blogged trips on Little Rabbit's Planning. After a couple of days of migraine-inducing marathon planning for Summer 2018, I set myself a limit of 1 hour/day and decided to blog the process.
Today, I'm figuring out mine and Antonia’s accommodation in Tokyo. Tokyo is a little overwhelming. Also, it looks like one of those Japanese spirits you see in anime. On one of its Anfenwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16203768296883938536noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-86894373762566210792017-03-19T12:00:00.000+01:002018-01-24T23:19:34.094+01:00Lisbon: Aguas Livres Aqueduct
I always think of aqueducts as typically Roman, having grown up near one of those, but this one is 18th century.
Of course, I had to go for a walk along it. Unfortunately, it's locked at the far end, so I couldn't get into the woods on that side. It's good for a view of Lisbon though.
Infrastructure is a marvelous thing.
Anfenwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16203768296883938536noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-46567415389877989062017-03-16T14:48:00.001+01:002018-01-24T23:19:34.086+01:00Sintra: Palácio da Pena
Pena is an 18th century Romantic palace and park belonging to the Portuguese royal family. Many palaces exist to display status at every turn, but one like this is more of a walk-in (live-in, for the original owners) piece of installation art. Here they played at being lords and ladies out of medieval fantasies, or artists, musicians and poets instead of rulers. Notwithstanding the fact that Anfenwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16203768296883938536noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5583693784781025796.post-73633806713283639142017-03-16T09:06:00.001+01:002017-03-16T09:06:21.868+01:00Lisbon: Campo Pequeno
Whereas Britain has the Neo-Gothic of places like St Pancras Station, this building of a very slightly later date is Neo-Mudejar (Iberian Islamic style). Also it isn't a station, it's a bullring, which doubles as a space for concerts and similar arena-based events. As if that wasn't enough, it has a shopping center, cafes and a cinema. To be honest I was really only interested in the Anfenwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16203768296883938536noreply@blogger.com3