Days 3 & 4: Coooool Runnings

Friday was a bit of a lazy day to be honest.  I dragged myself out for breakfast about 7am then only again around midday when I went for a wander to Eau Claire Market.  I grabbed a smoothie and got very tempted to make an outrageous purchase or two there, but it didn’t meet an i
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Day 2: Bye Bye Banff Hello Hockey!

My body clock continues to be screwed so I was up at about 4a.m reading Arsenal moaners on Twitter.  I packed up all ready before my tour and went for my breakfast at the grill.  I love American/Canadian breakfasts, pancakes, poached eggs, sausage, bacon and toast with a load of maple
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Day 1: Banff National Park

Fair to say from Friday last week work was a bit crazy with a particularly nasty service issue gobbling up my weekend.  It was so messy I did not want to throw my stand-in under the bus so I didn’t take the day of the flight off in the end and ended up working from the Premier I
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NYC Day 7: Back to reality!

It was a sad day today, having to say goodbye to NYC again and get back to the UK (and the midnight – 3am Islanders games).  I did a little bit of shopping this morning and went to Junior’s Brooklyn which was the first Junior’s (1965) for some of their famous cheesec
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NYC Days 5 & 6: Hanging out with the lads

On Saturday I did very very little.  I watched football all day in the hotel room and I ordered Japanese take-away to the hotel room too.  It brought back good memories of last summer having Udon noodles again. I did book myself a swanky meal for the evening in Brooklyn though and had
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NYC Day 4: I can see grass!

It’s Friday and I planned on having a Manhattan day today.  I still did, but changed the plan in that I headed to the famous Junior’s for breakfast.  I had pancakes, bacon and eggs but it was too early to have cheesecake (which is what they’re famous for) so I will n
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NYC Day 3: New York is Ours

I was pretty lazy today to be honest, and finished off the last couple episodes of Making a Murderer and I’ve been watching way to much of the Hockey channel in the hotel room. I was staying in Brooklyn today because of the HUGE game tonight, the NY Islanders Vs NY Rangers.  It
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NYC Day 1: F1 @ Heathrow

After a late night watching ‘Making a Murderer’ and panic cramming some work, I did not get much sleep at the hotel and it was a 5am alarm clock for me.  Thankfully, I did leave early because the day did not start too well. I have done Sleep Park Fly a hundred times with P
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7 Songs Challenge… Sort of

I have seen a lot of the ‘7 Song Challenge’ going around Facebook at the moment, and I’ve not paid much to attention to it to be honest.  I have no idea what it is meant to raise awareness for or anything but it did cast my memory back to reading Nick Hornby’s
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A look back at 2015

After a cracking end to 2014 with my nephew being born, I was ready to tackle 2015 and continue my recent tradition of trying to top the year before.  I had big plans for 2015 and now I am sitting here looking back on it, it has been an absolute cracker! It started off with a slight c
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