Rolling Traveler

This coming week, I will be in Wroclaw, Poland, where I lived for 11 years, and which I still consider home in many ways. It’s a beautiful and rapidly developing city with a lot to offer tourists. Rather than doing an analysis of the city in my usual style, I will be doing a trip diary, posting as I go, and I’ll see if I can rediscover what it’s like to be a tourist in Wroclaw.

 I’m not yet finished with posts about London, so don’t worry if you feel I’ve left out something major. There’s so much I could write about London that it’d be difficult to cover in a month, let alone ten days. I decided to focus on getting there and getting around to start with, and will return to more touristy posts at a later date.

 I may think I know the places I’ve been very well, but there’s always something new to learn. For example, while posting about London, I discovered that I’ve been spelling Stansted incorrectly for years. Now I know it’s StanstEd, not StanstEAd.

 On Tuesday September 30th, the Darius Goes West crew are at the Lee Hall Auditorium of Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, and Sunday October 5th, they’re in Neptune Park, St. Simon’s Island, GA. More details here at their web site. The crew also cut together a light-hearted new video to celebrate getting The Vehicle featured on You Tube. Congratulations to the lads on the feature, and on the tour, which is apparently going really well.

 I hope you’ve all had a great weekend. Join me tomorrow for the first part of my trip diary; till then, all the best!
Derek.

I’ve seen some odd hotel room designs over the years, mostly in London and the west of Ireland, where in an effort to keep up with the times, space has been reassigned to make the room en suite leaving an L-shaped room that is almost all bed, or a shelf has been jammed in at a weird angle up near the ceiling to accomodate a dangerously perched television. I understand the reasons behind these designs. Far stranger to me are the bizarre design choices I’ve seen in modern hotels that didn’t have to adapt or change existing structures, but still came up with something that is less than functional.

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