The baldie is fled, long live the baldie!
The business (basically a CRM database) passed into better hands in 2012. These materials remain here for cannibalisation and amusement.
The baldie meanwhile has found pastures new: as a singing organ-grinder for your event in the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands or Spain!
- Cruise & weekend favourites
- in 4 hours without feeling like a stupid tourist.
- Theme browser
- Fiesta finder
- Why FollowTheBaldie?
- Language All our guides are native English speakers and speak the local language fluently.
- Knowledge Our local and subject knowledge is profound and up-to-date.
- Interactivity See someone interesting? We'll interpret. Tired/full of energy? We can adapt the programme.
- Individuality We don't do herd tourism. No silly flags. No headsets.
- Responsibility Unlike most "green" tour businesses, we only use public transport--cheaper and generally more interesting.
Blog archives for 2012
Attack of the killer pheasant
With some folk geography and a would-be eggcorn.
Video in Spanish by foreign language students warning against street crime in Barcelona
I thought the reënactments in the second half were rather good. One of the commenters, however, mistook the medium for the message and was seized by an attack of lust. (Via Robbed in Barcelona. Here's one I managed to photograph, in Vilafranca del Penedès.)
Please God let Deutsche Bahn run Spain’s trains
For example, a decade later, Deutsche Bahn continues to offer better Spanish timetable info than Renfe, the data's owner, and in English.
21 today-ish
A quick pannieregyric to my Agu Sport Quorum canvas udders.
Free walk west from Gatwick to Ockley station, for trains to London and south
Here. More photos some other time.
Creative pyromania
The best way to avoid the repetition of Valencia et al's disastrous forest fires and create walkable woodlands.
Introducing the Gaudí Experience theme park
"The genius, the mysterious, the controversial, the visionary, the innovative, the excesive... The Icon."
Excellent mashup of the visible and the invisible on the Appian way
Robert Kaster & spouse did this, and much, much more, and the resulting book - thanks tender sender! - is thoroughly recommended. (And don't worry: seasoned jaywalkers won't find the first bit anything like as frightening as they did: they're drivers rather than walkers, and I'll bet a really pedantic researcher could dig out something […]
Beyond spacetime
Dimension inflation in Girona, Spain.
Ring cycle tour crash blossoms
Someone has forwarded mail from Martin Randall Travel offering "Ring cycle tours in Beriln and Seattle", and I guess there'll be a great flowering of this delicious ambiguity as we approach the bicentenary of Wagner's birth. Hardo Wagner makes touring bikes, R&B Wagner make bike racks, and Peter Wagner created the WhymCycle, but none of […]