Tim Thomas

Looking forward to my first ES trip from Brussels to Prague in a week.

Grey sky in Newbury.
First 2 since 5 October.
Wordle 1,607 2/6

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Good luck with your puzzles.

a kermit the frog is holding a piece of paper in his hand ALT: a kermit the frog is holding a piece of paper in his hand

2026 targets.

Prioritising some glaring missing pieces on our guide and refreshing some quite dated visits.

🇦🇹 Innsbruck
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 South Coast
🇨🇵 Lyon, Marseille
🇬🇷 Athens
🇮🇹 Napoli, Rome
🇱🇻 return to Riga
🇸🇯 Oslo
🇷🇴 Bucharest
🇸🇪 Stockholm
🇨🇭 Bern, Zürich
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (In general)

Via Mons to Brussels?

BREAKING: European Sleeper will start a Paris-Berlin sleeper train from 26 March 2026, after Nightjet pulls out in December.
It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris

Pubs in frontline in fight against loneliness With worries about loneliness on a par with peak pandemic levels, new polling by the British Beer and Pubs Association (BBPA) shows two out of three s...

'Professor of Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Cambridge and author of the book Pub Philip Howell said: “When pubs are ripped out of communities and neighbourhoods, the damage to social cohesion is incalculable.“'

wb.camra.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...

Russia spends millions to recreate kicking out time at Coco Bongos in Magaluf

Goodnight from Danny Trower, already feeling it was a mistake to meet at the Hawgate Trading Estate to discuss the selling of Faery bones. Goodnight from Joan Letts, afraid to lift the curtains and look out in case its the Wicker King knocking on her caravan door. Goodnight from Hookland.

Why has one of Edinburgh's best views been off-limits for seven years? The historic Radical Road path was closed in 2018 due to rockfall but a plan for its full reopening has still to be agreed.

The 7 year closure of Edinburgh’s Radical Road is appalling. Having attended a site visit last month I fail to see why the partial reopening now planned in 2026 has taken so long. It needs to happen as promised and be the start of improvements in paths across the Park
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oil refineries across Russia continue to explode.

Saratov Refinery, processing 140,000 barrels/day of crude oil.

THE UBIQUITOUS HARVEY’S November 2025. Rye. I’d almost overdone it on that first visit to the Ypres on my return to Rye (not the only one, apparently), and it was unfortunate that I had exactly 32 minutes till the b…

retiredmartin.com/2025/11/11/t...

Temperatures at 1.5km above London will be going from +8C tomorrow to -5C early next week. Well below average.

Certainly going to be noticeable sudden cooling after what will have been warmest first half to November on record.

River Spice, Reading.
Near Caversham Bridge
#Recommended
#Curry #Indian #restaurant
riverspicereading.co.uk

Financial Times: Unemployment increase deals fresh
blow to Reeves before crunch Budget #TomorrowsPapersToday

#TomorrowsPapersToday The i paper leads: "Fresh hope for Waspi women as Labour promises to look again at compensation." Also: BBC turmoil.
For more papers visit our new website at
www.thesentinelcurrent.co.uk/tomorrows-pa...

#TomorrowsPapersToday The Guardian leads with No 10 on alert amid fears of challenge to leadership (Exclusive by Pippa Crerar). Armistice Day tribute.
For more papers visit our new website at
www.thesentinelcurrent.co.uk/tomorrows-pa...

Český Krumlov / Krumau 🇨🇿

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekTforTelevision

The Prisoner starring Patrick McGoohan.
My photo is of Portmeirion in Wales the main filming location.

the Gulliver Airship 👉 Prague 👉 DOX – Contemporary Art Hub. 👉 Where Art Confronts You. DOX is not your typical gallery where you quietly admire paintings. Here, art challenges you. 👉https://hikevent.com/dox-contemporary-art-hub-in-holesovices-soho/

#travel #contemporaryart #dox #photography #prague

David Lynch’s 8½ (on view at DOX in Prague)

Useful info for Seniors 70+ in České Budějovice, CZ.
Free public transport with Photo ID on on all urban public transport lines of the Public Transport Company of the City of České Budějovice, a. s.
www.dpmcb.cz/cestovani-mh...

Useful for anyone 65+ in Prague, CZ.
Free public transport with Passport or EU ID card (Not trains)
pid.cz/en/discounts/

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey speaking in the House of Commons. Text over the image reads: "Ed Davey is the most trusted leader on the Economy. Source: Opinium."

Lib Dems want our economy to be fair, strong, and stable.

We would back small businesses, cut red tape, and sort out trade with our closest neighbours.

Journalist, "Farage accused the BBC of election interference"

Ed Davey, "The interference we've seen is from Farage's friend, Putin"

"We've seen Russian interference in the most appalling way"

The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey

The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey

Grey sky in Newbury.
Thought I’d solved in 2 as it took so long. A tough one.
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Good luck with your puzzles.

BBC iPlayer isn’t available in the USA. Staggering that there was no mention of this by you or Anna Foster.

Mood

David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ Flesh The judges ‘had never read anything quite like it’, says panel chair Roddy Doyle, announcing the Hungarian-British author’s novel as the winner of the £50,000 award Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker prize for his novel Flesh. Szalay’s sixth work of fiction traces the life of one man, István, from his youth to midlife. The judges “had never read anything quite like it”, said panel chair Roddy Doyle, who won the prize in 1993. “It is, in many ways, a dark book, but it is a joy to read.” Continue reading...

David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ Flesh