Archive for April, 2013
How long is it possible to sleep?
April 5th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
I’m fortunate in that I’ve always slept well and can more-or-less sleep anywhere at any time. If you’ve followed the blog postings on our round the world trip, you’ll have seen that it was an intense exercise with a lot of early starts and a great deal of travelling, so I haven’t been getting as […]
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Our round the word trip (29): conclusion
April 4th, 2013 by Roger Darlington
The final stages of our journey home involved a flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles of just 50 minutes on an United Boeing 757-200, a period of four hours at LAX airport, and then another flight from LA to London of 10 hrs 40 mins on an Air New Zealand Boeing 777-300. The last […]
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Our round the world trip (28): three icons in San Francisco
April 3rd, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Our last day of the stop-over in San Francisco and the final day of our amazing round the world holiday – Day 29 (Tuesday) – began with another Argonaut Hotel breakfast. You order a ham & cheese omelette and you receive an omelette twice the size of any in Europe (they use three eggs) plus […]
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Our round the world trip (27): two tours in San Francisco
April 2nd, 2013 by Roger Darlington
Arriving at our San Francisco hotel after crossing the Pacific, the first priority was a little sleep in mid afternoon. Then it was out around Fisherman’s Wharf for something to eat. We played safe and went to a very traditional American diner called “Denny’s”, but we had forgotten just how enormous many of the servings […]
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