2019-in-review
type: Article
content: In 2018 I travelled all over Europe, mostly alone, and got to know myself better than ever. 2019 was a continuation of this, with a few unexpected twists, new lessons, and reinforcement of things I discovered last year. I posted logs or photos or blogposts to my site 4,974 times and posted 9,032 individual photos. tl;dr Continued to travel around Europe; visited lots of new places, and returned to places I know and love. Met a few wonderful new people. Kept in touch or reconnected with many others. Tested the limits of my sociability. Did contracting work as well as my day job, but not enough to add up to full-time. Went out of my way to attend RWOT conferences twice. Looked after other peoples' pets. Took a detour to visit Elizabeth in Zimbabwe for 2 weeks (broke the no-fly rule). Had a rhino-related near-death experience. A long, hot, Balkan summer; swam in the sea often, got a lot of migraines from the heat. Learnt to read Cyrllic with ease. Returned to the UK for Co-op and family stuff. Did more exercise than last year. Not that the bar was high. Fell in love with the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. Won NaNoWriMo! But overall wrote less than last year. Overcame a bit my aversion to fire, through necessity. Goals for 2020: more of the same really. But with more solitude. Words I wrote 321 things. On my site I posted 261 short notes or commentary with photos, and 60 longer articles. I also logged non-blogpost writing 34 times. These all comprise approximately 95,722 words in total (52,001 off-site). That's a mean of 262.25 words and 0.88 posts per day. That's less than last year; missed my 'write more' goal. I wrote about 153 different topics, with the most common being travel (99), life (69), week in review (50), nanowrimo (29), writing (21), food (15), tourism (13), vegan (12), Bulgaria (10), ods (9), montenegro (8), and hiking (8). My NaNoWriMo project was Quest for Brothers, but I didn't write much else. Travel I stopped in a total of 22 countries; I visited 12 cou…
name: 2019 in review
published: 2020-01-31T23:24:00+00:00
tag: didwg
tag: writing
tag: food
tag: quantified+self
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/2019
tag: life
tag: year+in+review
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review
tag: digital+nomad
tag: transit
tag: logs
tag: ods
tag: w3c

drive-from-nng
type: Travel
end time: 2020-01-28T19:39:38+00:00
origin: newark
published: 2020-01-28T18:17:38+00:00
start time: 2020-01-28T18:19:38+00:00
summary: Drive from NNG to Stickford
tag: travel
tag: transit
tag: car
target: sticks-lincs-uk

grantham-london
type: Travel
end time: 2020-02-10T19:47:19+00:00
name: Grantham to London
origin: grantham-uk
published: 2020-01-30T20:37:19+00:00
start time: 2020-02-10T18:37:19+00:00
summary: Train from Grantham to London
tag: travel
tag: transit
tag: train
target: london

london-frankfurt
type: Travel
end time: 2020-02-11T12:20:56+01:00
name: London to Frankfurt
origin: london
published: 2020-01-30T16:59:56+00:00
start time: 2020-02-10T21:30:56+00:00
summary: Flixbus from London to Frankfurt
tag: travel
tag: transit
tag: bus
target: frankfurt-germany

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Bussed from Sofia to Arad, Arad to Cologne, Cologne to London. Half a Open Data Services Co-op CoGM in Manchester, then onward to Edinburgh. A long weekend celebrating KitB in Edinburgh and Dunkeld & Birnam.
name: Week in review: 20 - 26 Jan
published: 2020-01-26T23:59:59+00:00
tag: uk
tag: travel
tag: ods
tag: work
tag: kitb
tag: week+in+review

drive-from
type: Travel
end time: 2020-02-05T20:12:47+00:00
origin: grantham-uk
published: 2020-02-05T19:12:47+00:00
start time: 2020-02-05T19:12:47+00:00
summary: Drive from Grantham to Stickford
tag: travel
tag: transit
tag: car
target: sticks-lincs-uk

drive-from-penzance
type: Travel
end time: 2020-02-01T16:00:51+00:00
name: Drive from Penzance to St Austell
origin: penzance-uk
published: 2020-02-01T09:24:51+00:00
start time: 2020-02-01T15:00:51+00:00
summary: A lift with K's family from Penzance to St Austell (Cornwall)
tag: travel
tag: transit
tag: car
target: st-austell-uk

drive-from-stickford
type: Travel
end time: 2020-02-10T18:30:41+00:00
origin: sticks-lincs-uk
published: 2020-02-10T15:13:41+00:00
start time: 2020-02-10T17:23:41+00:00
summary: Drive from Stickford to Grantham
tag: travel
tag: transit
tag: car
target: grantham-uk

everything-i-own
type: Article
content: I haven't written a post about everything I carry around with me since I, Nomad, when I gave away everything I couldn't carry and left the US for Japan. Since then, I have downsized considerably, and became a bit hooked on the idea. I left the US with a 52L top loading backpack and a 40L side loader. In Malaysia I gained and lost stuff, but gave away more than I gained; in Australia I swapped the side loader with my cousin for a more compactable (and tattered) 35L rucksack; by the time I got back to Europe the 35L was about empty and I left it at a hostel in Croatia. Then I spent eight months in Sarajevo getting more things, winter clothes, awesome boots, etc. The whole lot, filling up my 52L bag, I left to my yoga teacher, and packed the rest into an orange 40+5L I bought for €30 on amazon. I love the orange bag. For a cheap knockoff it's done very well. It's front loading, has an expandable front pocket, lots of places to attach stuff, and I can tighten many straps to size it down when it's not full. It probably has another couple of years of use in it, though it's starting to show wear; one of the straps is splitting away, and it has a lot of soy sauce stains on the inside. I backed the RiutBag kickstarter last year, after extended questioning and personal video replies from Sarah Giblin, the designer, on twitter. They were due to be shipped in October, when I had a trip back to the UK scheduled anyway. In the end I fouled up putting my address into kickstarter properly, and it didn't get sent out with the first batch. Racing an uncertain brexit at the time, I left it as late as possible to but eventually gave up on the bag and booked last minute travel to Bulgaria. The bag arrived the day after I left. My Mum unboxed it in a video call for me, and I spent the next few months thinking about how great it will be to have a smaller bag. The orange bag lent itself to downsizing well, as whenever I gained space I could pull in the side and bottom straps. Mostly I ende…
name: Everything I own fits in a 35L RiutBag now
published: 2020-02-12T12:24:00+01:00
tag: riutbag
tag: travel
tag: digital+nomad

london
type: Note
content: In London it's legal to murder someone for standing on the wrong side of the escalator in the underground. #littleknownfacts
published: 2020-02-05T11:40:30+00:00
tag: life
tag: london
tag: travel

mont-soleil-bern
type: Travel
content: Mont Soleil to Bern with changes in St Imier and Biel.
end time: 2020-02-23T13:05:17+01:00
name: Mont Soleil to Bern
origin: mont-soleil
published: 2020-02-23T10:00:17+01:00
start time: 2020-02-23T09:45:17+01:00
summary: Funicular and trains from Mont Soleil to Bern
tag: travel
tag: transit
tag: train
target: bern-switzerland

switzerland
type: Note
content: I am in Switzerland and it is very nice but everything is too expensive. Also UK border control checked me out but French didn't check anyone in, and there's no border control on the train between DE and CH (very different to crossing by bus, where you're hounded by police every hour and a half). So I dunno if I'm really here tbh?
published: 2020-02-11T18:52:00+01:00
tag: travel
tag: switzerland

train-from
type: Travel
end time: 2020-02-11T16:56:59+01:00
name: Train from Frankfurt to Basel
origin: frankfurt-germany
published: 2020-02-06T13:38:59+00:00
start time: 2020-02-11T14:06:59+01:00
tag: travel
tag: transit
tag: train
target: basel-switzerland

trains-from-basel
type: Travel
content: Trains from Basel to St Imier and funicular to Mont Soleil
end time: 2020-02-12T17:17:53+01:00
name: Trains from Basel to Mont Soleil
origin: basel-switzerland
published: 2020-02-11T11:47:53+01:00
start time: 2020-02-12T13:03:53+01:00
summary: Trains and funicular from Basel to Mont Soleil
tag: travel
tag: transit
tag: train
target: mont-soleil

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Swung by Glasgow to see Felicity and Rory. Finished crocheting a baby-sized chilli and matching hat to.. put a baby in. Hopefully it makes it to the baby before she gets too big. Went back to my Mum's for a couple of days. Worked. Did my taxes. Changed the wifi password and broke all the smart devices. Train to London, dinner with TomSka, nightbus to Penzance. A weekend in a giant seafront house for KitB's awesome wedding.
name: Week in review: 27 Jan - 2 Feb
published: 2020-02-02T23:59:59+00:00
tag: friends
tag: kitb
tag: travel
tag: uk
tag: week+in+review

week-in-review-2
type: Article
type: Activity
content: Travelled back from Cornwall to London then back to Lincolnshire. Worked from Mum's for the rest of the week on OC4IDS stuff. Visited Grandma a couple of times. Watched Netflix and did jigsaws and played snooker with Mum. Packed my RiutBag! Train from Grantham to London (delayed), bus from London to Frankfurt (late), train from Frankfurt to Basel (delayed). A day in Basel, then trains and funicular to Mont Soleil for Vipassana.
name: Week and a half in review: 3 - 12 Feb
published: 2020-02-12T12:45:00+01:00
tag: uk
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review
tag: life
tag: vipassana

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