After visiting Hogwarts, I started my journey southward.
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I took a train directly to London, where I bought a ticket on the Eurostar to Paris.
InterRail 2010 – Part 11: Traveling to France
InterRail 2010 – Part 10: Alnwick Castle
After visiting Cardiff I took the train back to England, and traveled north up to Newcastle, Northumberland.
After dropping my rucksack of at a hotel, I hopped on the bus out to Alnwick Castle.
InterRail 2010 – Part 9: Cardiff
After having seen Stonehenge, I took the train to Cardiff, the capital of Wales.
I had been wanting to travel to Cardiff for a few years, ever since I got into ‘Doctor Who’.
Harry Potter and The Books That Made Me A Reader
In the year 2000, when I was nine years old, my mother read the first Harry Potter book for me and my younger sister over the course of several nights.
Top 5 Songs from ‘MoS: Level 3’
Back in February, I shared my favorite song from each ‘Miracle of Sound’ album.
This proved to be very difficult, as there are so many great songs there!
Cthulhu Pasta
For this months geeky recipe I decided I would cook the cosmic horror known as Cthulhu.
That is not dish which can eternal lie, and after strange aeons even death may dine.
Book Report: ‘The Last Wish’
I just finished reading ‘The Last Wish’ by the Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski.
The book is a collection of several short stories about the witcher Geralt of Rivia, a traveling monster hunter for hire.
Why You Should Play Games
For some gamers, it can be difficult to realize that not everyone understands their hobby. Gaming has grown so much in popularity that it can now safely be considered mainstream, so it is easy to overlook that there are still many people baffled by the popularity of this media.
So this article is for those of you who don’t quite know why you should play video games, but is interested in finding out.
Easter Crime
In Norway, one of our main Easter traditions is reading and watching crime fiction, which we will often sit down to enjoy after a long nice walk in the snow.
Deconstructed Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars – Bar
As March is the month of the Roman god Mars, I decided that for this months geeky recipe, a deconstructed mars-bar would do nicely.
And what better geeky Mars-related property to choose, than Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars-trilogy of books; “Red Mars”, “Green Mars” and “Blue Mars”?
I deconstructed the mars-bar by making a red nougat ice cream, green caramel sauce and blue chocolate cookie crumbles.
Look,
I’m not gonna pretend this was an unmitigated success
‘The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone’ and ‘Pan Twardowski’
I have always been fond of subversions of fairy tales and fantasy, so it came as no surprise that
I ended up loving ‘The Witcher 3’
Time Travel Stories
I love time travel in fiction.
That is one of the main reasons why I love Doctor Who.
I love how this storytelling device can put ideologies from vastly different cultures, separated by decades or centuries, up against each other. By doing this, we can compare them, and find strengths and weaknesses in both. It can also just lead to funny jokes, or cool imagery, like a medieval knight riding on a velociraptor and wielding a laser sword.