I am pleased to announce that I will be coming home to Boston for several days before leaving for Texas. It was actually much cheaper to do this than it was to try and fly to Austin all at once. Much furthermore, it will be good to see friends and family.
I will be back in [...]
Well,
“You win some and you lose some.” - common saying in times of defeat.
Indeed, today I have a major win to report. I am leaving for Nepal on Saturday, 08 March, where I will be for over five weeks. Let’s entertain a quick Q&A session:
A Brief Q&A Session
How can you do this?
I have loving and [...]
Despite the title, this blog is not about phonology. It is, instead, about stuff I’ve been up to lately. Also, it includes a variety of discussions on topics I have had in my head recently. Here, the author attempts to offer a blog which is:
Informative
Fun
Utilizes several varieties of popular online media to the benefit of [...]
Several members of the Readership have confronted me demanding new material. I have been hesitant for a while, if not a few weeks, due to lack of stuff to talk about. In reviewing a few flagship blogs, I have decided to take the usual path of selecting some topics at random, in-so-much-as they might bear [...]
I just spent 34 days travelling around Europe. Here is a detailed map of the route I took and where I went.
I went to Scotland for a week, Norway for two weeks, Germany for a few days, Switzerland for a day, Spain for a few days, and France for about a week. I have no [...]
The last ten days or so have been exciting ones. This post is mostly informative / a jog of my recollection, but has pictures for once, which should be appreciated by the reader! But they take forever to load because I still haven’t set up my image hosting properly due to lack of time. So [...]
This page is about plans for my travel over winter break from Oxford, from 4 December, 2007 to 10 January, 2008.
Travel Goals
My goals for these travels are as follows:
See the English countryside, Aberdeen, and Dublin.
See the fjords, mountains, and glaciers of Norway.
Go to the Arctic Circle.
Hang out in Venice for a few days
See Zurich, Geneve, [...]
London has a cooler, drier, more temperate climate than does Boston. I support my claim with the following data.
In an average year, Boston is wetter and cooler, overall.
Boston is wetter than London by 12.8in.
London is cooler than Boston by 3°F.
In winter and summer, London’s temperature are less extreme.
The low average of London in January is [...]
So, how’s everyone doing tonight? Right on, man, right on. A blog:
Getting Into England
I got into London-Heathrow airport around 8:00am GMT last Wednesday. I then paid £18.00 for a taxi to St. Giles Hotel in Feltham.
“Feltham?! Not even Londoners go there!”
- Rebecca’s friend at East Anglia.
But what happened after that will not be covered yet. [...]