We went on a long walk through Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, along the James Irvine Trail, down through the forest to the Pacific Ocean.
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Flickr maps and Google maps
Check out Flickr’s new maps for London. This is stunningly good stuff… Yahoo and Flickr now have good maps for Britain and the rest of Europe as well, which should help the whole geotagging thing really fly outside the US. I’ve known this was coming for a while, but it doesn’t make its arrival any less welcome…
Off to Washington
It ain’t no famous name on a golden plaque
That keeps me that makes me ride that railroad track
Near-death collision results in small bruise
Helen crashed today. Driving at about 40mph along a duel carriageway another car pulled out from the left into her path. To avoid a collision she veered towards the central reservation and ploughed straight into a set of traffic lights. The car’s a write-off, she’s ok.
She could be dead tonight, or lying mangled in hospital, or have at least a broken limb or two but nothing except for one small bruise. I wonder if she’s lucky to be unharmed or unlucky to have been in such a nasty accident.
Estonia here we come
Continuing our recent tradition of a quick cheap Winter holiday on the Continent (Venice, could it ever be bettered? Cologne, whizzy Cathedral and metre-long bratwurst) we have booked Talinn for a few days.
Talinn’s the capital of new-Europe Estonia (home of Skype and flat-rate taxation). It hasn’t joined the Euro yet and its currency, the Etonian Kroon is known as the EEK (ISO 4217 code). How good is that?
Billy Referendum
When Blair & Co. were voted into office in 1997 we thought that a significant difference our new Labour Overlords (and I, for one, welcomed them) would make would be the proposed constitutional changes. House of Lords reform, Assemblies for Wales and Scotland, and so on. Now the North-East is being invited to vote in a referendum for a regional Assembly.
California, Nevada, Arizona
Just returned (10-hour flight back). We flew into and through the night, as we did when we returned from Georgia in 2001. Helen tells me that flying West to East is the worst for jetlag which is maybe why I’m still up at 4:13 am (about 8pm California). The US is so beautiful and California so suprisingly wild. I learned the Grand Canyon is in Arizona (not Colorado or Utah) and I am glad Helen persuaded me to visit Las Vegas.
California
We’re flying at 11am (UK time) to San Francisco, picking up a car and driving around anywhere that takes our fancy for three weeks. Blogging will be light.
It’s an eleven hour flight!