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can you imagine riding the streets of London with one of this (a PTEROSAIL)?

recently i have been cycling in London thanks to the Mayor’s bicycle scheme. however it ain’t nice. the streets of london are no friends of the bicycle and the current bicycle lanes arrangements is a JOKE. basically you need to be a bit crazy and suicidal to cycle regularly and longer distance in london. when [...]

what’s happening in France?

this morning I had the (in hindsight unfortunate) idea to check the french news, since I am traveling for the shortest ever w/e break to Paris. After reading the headlines, I feel a bit worried about France, what’s going on there and my short trip (now I see the shortness of my trip as a [...]

Saturday 07/08/2010 vintage arcade video games show in London

Tomorrow, or should I say, today, an exhibition of vintage arcade video games at the Future gallery by Hand Baked Arcade, merchants in vintage arcade video games. More info: http://www.handbakedarcade.co.uk/ “Free unlimited play on all consoles and games [...]” If you can wait in the queue..

tube misery

25/11/2010 I didn’t think of this at the time, but the very funny side of this story is that as if traveling by tube wasn’t bad enough, last friday i saw this: Seriously? Just as I was thinking that any other decent underground/metro system i know (tokyo, frankfurt, berlin, amsterdam, washington) has plenty of escalators [...]

get points for predator?

a well known cinema chain in the uk is offering 300 points on the fidelity program to watch “predators”. is it so awful ?