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Great Eastern Journey, Sat, 23 Mar 13
Simon at a City, River, Temple in Asia, India

Bus driver’s flowers and trinketsAll busses and trucks are decorated like thatLooks like every second river is holy here… After some pretty spicy food (the waiter didn’t think it was spicy at all) I went to the train station. Despite …

Adapted?

Great Eastern Journey, Fri, 22 Mar 13
Simon at a City, Temple in Asia, India

The film turned out to be a silly comedy. Despite the fact that it was all in Hindi, I got most of it. A floaker guy spots a beautiful girl, miraculously she agrees for a date, but he doesn’t have …

Thank you, Gandhi

Great Eastern Journey, Wed, 20 Mar 13
Simon at a Cave, City, Museum, Sea, UNESCO site in Asia, India

Tonight I couldn’t sleep for a new reason. You know how they say ‘don’t let the bed bugs bite’? Well, it’s not like you have a choice sometimes. I’m changing beds today. The clean waters of Mumbai In the morning I …

Up a bit

Great Eastern Journey, Tue, 19 Mar 13
Simon at a City, Museum, UNESCO site in Asia, India

OK, things are picking up a little. I guess the first shock has passed. I still think Mumbai is a horrible place and want to get out asap, but at least I saw a couple interesting things today. I guess …

Not that great for now

Great Eastern Journey, Mon, 18 Mar 13
Simon at a City in Asia, India

How is India? It’s fucking disgusting, I want to go home. Airport staircase, mid level I felt bad taking pics of the homeless, so just some rubbish OK, OK, I’m not giving up just yet. But really. My current experience …

Funky buildings

Great Eastern Journey, Sat, 16 Mar 13
Simon at a City, Museum in Asia, Singapore

Ha, updates day after day! You can really tell I’m back to civilisation! Back in the land of tall buildings Actually, there couldn’t be a starker contrast than between what I saw in Sumatra and in Singapore. Beautiful, wild nature, …

On the road

Great Eastern Journey, Fri, 01 Mar 13
Simon at a City in Australia & Oceania, New Zealand

Today stated off slow – I went to see the downtown with the goth guy whose name I don’t remember anymore. To be honest, I`m not terribly impressed with this part of the city. Lots of boring big buildings with …

Boats, hills and acrobatics

Great Eastern Journey, Fri, 01 Mar 13
Simon at a City, Sea in Australia & Oceania, New Zealand

Auckland is awesome! Within the first few hours here I was on a boat, on a hill, in a tunnel, among villas, and at an acrobatics-burlesque show. But all in order. I arrived a bit late so instead of going …

Sydney

Great Eastern Journey, Wed, 27 Feb 13
Simon with Charlie at a City, Park, UNESCO site in Australia, Australia & Oceania

Shiny Sydney So many sex shops here! And tons of ‘massage’ places too… I heard so much about how boring and horrible and not half as good as Melbourne Sydney is from various Victorians, that now I almost feel bad …

The Suburbia

Great Eastern Journey, Tue, 26 Feb 13
Simon with Charlie at a City, Park in Australia, Australia & Oceania

OK, that does it. Too hot. A climate in which one cannot leave a bar of chocolate unattended for half an hour least it dissolves is not worth living in! Today was a working day. I dropped off Charlie to …

Light fantastic

Great Eastern Journey, Sun, 24 Feb 13
Simon with Charlie at a City in Australia, Australia & Oceania

What a night! But in order. Australian chemists prescribe ukuleles for many ailments In the early hours of the noon we went to the Victoria Market – a huge outdoor market with absolutely everything. I bought a hat and almost …

Not much today

Great Eastern Journey, Fri, 22 Feb 13
Simon with Charlie at a City, Museum in Australia, Australia & Oceania

With Miriam and Adam, superhero posing On the next day laziness continued. Adam showed me his impressive collection of WH40K figures, took us for a motorbike ride, and after a good lunch we were off to Melbourne. Interactive shadows in …

Gold and more kangaroos

Great Eastern Journey, Thu, 21 Feb 13
Simon with Charlie at a City, Park in Australia, Australia & Oceania

Today we woke up at an ungodly 5.30am to catch a 6.30 bus to Bendigo. We almost saw the sunrise – the one moment when we could use the fact that everything is flat, we spent at the Swan Hill …

The gardens of Gotham City

Great Eastern Journey, Tue, 19 Feb 13
Simon with Charlie at a City, Museum, Park in Australia, Australia & Oceania

OK, body, can I please sleep tomorrow? Waking up at 6 am is not fun if there is a full day ahead of me… Today was the day of museum and gardens. The museum was OK, but not what I …

The Pretty, The Expensive and The Eggs

Great Eastern Journey, Sun, 17 Feb 13
Simon with Charlie at a City, Park, Sea in Australia, Australia & Oceania

A random airplane show on the beach Today was a recovery day. I woke up still felling quite rough, so although the initial plan was to check out some museums, after the Farleys left I ended up just lying on …

Jetlaaaag!!!

Great Eastern Journey, Sun, 17 Feb 13
Simon with Charlie at a City in Australia, Australia & Oceania

It got me. It really got me. I think that yesterday I was just too excited to feel it and managed to stay OK for one day, but the delay only made it worse… It’s like a monstrous hangover-comedown from …

Art, tea and a fish tank

Great Eastern Journey, Sat, 16 Feb 13
Simon with Charlie at a City, Sea in Australia, Australia & Oceania

The beach has various attractions It’s warm! And there are palm and eucalyptus and gum trees! And the ocean is warm! And the sky is cloudless! Yes, I am quite excited.  Charlie is out of order for an hour, so …

Best Fish and Chips

Short UK trips, Mon, 17 Dec 12
Simon with Charlie, Eva at a City in Europe, UK

17 December 2012, post-Viva fish

Weekend away with Charlie

Short UK trips, Mon, 10 Dec 12
Simon with Charlie at a City in Europe, UK

Gdańsk conference

Conference Trips, Thu, 27 Sep 12
Simon at a City in Europe, Poland

The Aesthetic as Narration and Meta-narration, 27-28 Sep 2012

Around the ASA Eastern Conference

Conference Trips, Mon, 23 Apr 12
Simon at a City in North America, USA

Parks and museums of NY

Conference Trips, Mon, 16 Apr 12
Simon at a City, Museum, Park in North America, USA

Post-conferencial

Conference Trips, Mon, 05 Mar 12
Simon at a City, UNESCO site in Belgium, Europe

Leuven, the conference town

Conference Trips, Thu, 01 Mar 12
Simon at a City in Belgium, Europe

March 2012, Dutch Association for Aesthetics March 2015, Dutch Association for Aesthetics

Barca visits

Conference Trips, Short Spanish trips, Wed, 11 Jan 12
Jemma and Simon at a City in Europe, Spain

11-12 January 2012, TIF Conference 3-5 November 2018, Sussing it out for the move

Edinburgh life

Lived here!, Sun, 18 Sep 11
Jemma and Simon with Alex, Charlie, Dee, Eva, Iwona, Jacek, Julia, Lef, Lorraine, Lu, Matt, Michał, Miron, Niki at a Castle, City, Graveyard, Mountain, Museum, Park, Ruins/Excavation, Sea, Temple, UNESCO site in Europe, Poland

Perth visits

Short UK trips, Sun, 17 Jul 11
Jemma and Simon with Eva, Kari at a City in Europe, UK

4 December 2005 17 July 2011, with Kari 3 March 2018, Jemma’s birthday trip

Gniezno visits

Short Polish trips, Tue, 05 Apr 11
Simon with Kari at a City in Europe, Poland

A week in York

Short UK trips, Wed, 10 Nov 10
Simon with Eva at a City in Europe, UK

First time in Barca

Short Spanish trips, Wed, 31 Mar 10
Simon with Eva at a City, Museum, Park, Temple, UNESCO site in Europe, Spain

Kontrast był niesamowity. Na lotnisko w Prestwick jechaliśmy w deszczu i coraz mocniejszej wichurze. Wychodząc z samochodu musiałem się trzymać kapelusza, a na lotnisko dobiegliśmy szczękając zębami. Przejście z bramki do samolotu i stanie w kolejce do wejścia było wykańczające. …

Stirling visits

Short UK trips, Sat, 28 Nov 09
Simon with Eva, Iwona, Jacek at a Castle, City in Europe, UK

28 May 2006 28/11/2009, with parents

New Year in Cieszyn

Short Polish trips, Mon, 31 Dec 07
Simon with Cube, Eva, Kay, Ola, Xavier at a City in Europe, Poland

San Pietro In Vaticano Dome

Roma

Short European Trips, Wed, 18 Jul 07
Simon with Eva at a Castle, City, Graveyard, Museum, Park, Ruins/Excavation, Sea, Temple, UNESCO site in Europe, Italy

20 July Arco di ConstantinoColosseoColosseoColosseoPalatino – ColosseoArea Sacra di Largo ConstantinaIl GesuPalatino – ColosseoPalatino – Forum RomanumPalatinoPalatino – Forum RomanumPalatinoPalatinoPalatinoPalatinoPalatinoPalatinoPalatinoPalatinoPalatinoPalatinoSanta Maria Sopra Minerva Pantheon Rafael’s TombSanta Maria Sopra Minerva – BerniniSanta Maria Sopra Minerva Santa Maria Sopra Minerva Santa Maria …

Dunblane

Short UK trips, Sun, 28 May 06
Simon with Eva at a City in Europe, UK

Dublin visits

Conference Trips, Short European Trips, Thu, 06 Apr 06
Simon at a City in Europe, Ireland

6-9 April 2006, big band trip 10-12 March 2007, Putnam @ 80 Conference

The grey city

Short UK trips, Sun, 11 Dec 05
Simon with Eva at a City, Temple in Europe, UK

Dundee Life

Lived here!, Mon, 18 Jul 05
Simon with Eva, Iwona, Jacek, Mark, Yana at a City in Europe, UK

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Poznań life

Lived here!, Mon, 06 Aug 84
Jemma and Simon at a City in Europe, Poland