mind the gap
Plymouth broke the mould; sort of. Instead of "MIND THE GAP" the station platform at Plymouth has retained the arcane and odd usage of "mind" to remind everyone that their platform is a bit lower than you might prefer. England is laced with these oddities: complex phraseology when simple would communicate better, the most convoluted approach to simple matters of plumbing and their favourite transport safety message, repeated ad nauseam, "see it, say it, sorted".
I began posting to Flickr as a way to let everyone know where I was in my travels. I'm travelling again in a not quite post-COVID world. I try to be a traveller, not a tourist. All the same, my travels this time will be punctuated by a small group tour nominally focussed on things of an astronomical and engineering bent.
Like my plans to post sequentially according to the date taken, hardly anything ever turns out to be perfect — sorry if that has upset the idealists and optimists among you.
With the hindsight of my disrupted plans I'm now inclined to title my travels to the UK in 2023 as "MIND THE GAP". You see, despite almost all my travelling plans running smoothly, the tourism delivery was a bit more, shall we say, chaotic. That may sound a bit unkind. Without the company of eminent scientists I would never have access to the places I've been. It's the bits I signed up for that fell into the gap, never to be seen again, the organiser's ignorance of the 6Ps, disregard for their own respiratory infection protocols and the unconscious bias attracted by cliques and elites that elicited this change, in my mind, for the working title.
Anyway, I'm back now, or at least parts of me are and I promise to outshine the service delivery which confirmed for me that travelling is so much better that tourism.
mind the gap
Plymouth broke the mould; sort of. Instead of "MIND THE GAP" the station platform at Plymouth has retained the arcane and odd usage of "mind" to remind everyone that their platform is a bit lower than you might prefer. England is laced with these oddities: complex phraseology when simple would communicate better, the most convoluted approach to simple matters of plumbing and their favourite transport safety message, repeated ad nauseam, "see it, say it, sorted".
I began posting to Flickr as a way to let everyone know where I was in my travels. I'm travelling again in a not quite post-COVID world. I try to be a traveller, not a tourist. All the same, my travels this time will be punctuated by a small group tour nominally focussed on things of an astronomical and engineering bent.
Like my plans to post sequentially according to the date taken, hardly anything ever turns out to be perfect — sorry if that has upset the idealists and optimists among you.
With the hindsight of my disrupted plans I'm now inclined to title my travels to the UK in 2023 as "MIND THE GAP". You see, despite almost all my travelling plans running smoothly, the tourism delivery was a bit more, shall we say, chaotic. That may sound a bit unkind. Without the company of eminent scientists I would never have access to the places I've been. It's the bits I signed up for that fell into the gap, never to be seen again, the organiser's ignorance of the 6Ps, disregard for their own respiratory infection protocols and the unconscious bias attracted by cliques and elites that elicited this change, in my mind, for the working title.
Anyway, I'm back now, or at least parts of me are and I promise to outshine the service delivery which confirmed for me that travelling is so much better that tourism.