The latest posts from friends or from content relatable to this site’s main theme or even just stuff I like and want to check up on occasionally. The number of articles per feed may vary over time depending on how often people post, and feeds may be removed or added at any point.

If you have a travel-related website that isn’t just copy-and-paste press releases or if you write fairly frequently and think “Hey, I reckon Mark would like to read what I’ve put out there every now and then!” then please do get in contact. I promise nothing, though, because my tastes are fickle


WESTWAY

I’ve know Iain for many years now on social media platforms, starting with the never-to-be-surpassed FriendFeed, on Facebook when that shut down, and on Twitter before the man-baby shat all over it.

  •  Enjoyable, but rather tiring.Saturday, was out – -out! – in London, for Andrew's birthday, at a pub in Clerkenwell Green. Going to London feels almost novel, now – after so many years when frankly, I'd have been horrified to have […]
  • 2023 Giant TCR Advanced SLManaged to get outside today – hurrah! And I also managed to drag this bad boy out of the shed. What a life-affirming ride! there's something so immediate, so responsive and so thrilling about this bike. […]

My Apophenic Haze

I’ve been blogging for a long time and someone I met online from way back then doing the same thing was Gia. It was she who even introduced me to FriendFeed from where I ended up making a lot of other long-term friendships that have persisted to this day. She writes horribly well. I’m ridiculously jealous.


theaardvark

Paul is someone I’ve been online friends with for a good few years too, first on Twitter, now, like me, a migrant to the more pleasant waters of Mastodon.


Snaprails Random Things

A lover of train travel rather than the more far-flung adventures we prefer to engage in, and a frequent co-engager on the regular Top of the Pops chats on Mastodon.

  • 6th February February arrived with slightly longer days and the promise of drier weather so I decided it was time to get back onto the London Loop. A couple of […]
  • I’ve been to four of London’s Winter Lights Festivals. Here’s how it went.   Southbank Centre   Dotted around the Southbank Centre was the least impressive collection of light artworks […]

Tedium: The Dull Side Of The Internet

Eclectic, well-written, always interesting content from Ernie Smith.

  • A few years before the Universal Serial Bus took over the world of peripherals, another upstart standard aimed to do the same thing. And I’m not talking about FireWire.
  • The periodic Rust-induced conflicts happening with the Linux kernel hint at underlying generational problems facing the project. And it’s already led a prominent maintainer to quit.

The Captain’s Table

A mix of historical cruise ship and liner content and more up-to-date blogging from former Queen Mary tour guide, Zach Whitlow.


Cruise Monkeys

Wales-based Gav and Luke like cruising – as do we – and they like drinking – as do we – and we’ve still not met. Absolute travesty.