18th January 2026: Industrial Heritage around Entrepeñas Reservoir (Spain)
Weather warnings, work, and a nasty stomach bug seemed to conspire against me for a lousy start of the year, and what I had originally planned for the 2nd of January had to be delayed a couple of w…
28th December 2025: Sabre-toothed cats in Alcalá de Henares (Spain)
For my last escapade of the year 2025, I chose a nearby low-effort one – Alcalá de Henares. I was checking out dates for upcoming events in Madrid when I saw that the palaeontology and archaeology …
Hand-sized iron meteorite, composed of alloys of iron and nickel: taenite and kamacite forming Widmanstätten patterns. It is much heavier than it looks (I got to hold something that came from outer space!). This specimen is in the Geomineralogical Museum in Madrid
A lot of free-roaming or free-range sheep herds have a few goats in them. Rumour has it this is because goats are smart and will guide the herd to shade when the weather is too hot. Sheep will stay in the sun and overheat. Or maybe it is because gots are fun...
Trip: United Kingdom December 2025 – JBinnacle – A Travel Logbook
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11th December 2025: Underground and University London {United Kingdom, December 2025}
It was not too much of a chilly London morning. I popped into the underground to go leave my luggage at Liverpool Street station – where there is (you guessed it) a Costa Coffee. Then, I headed tow…
If you ever take a guided tour of Tenerife, the guide will surely ask you "how many volcanos are there in the island?". Spoiler: the answer is one. The whole island is one big dormant volcano with several craters. The most important one is Mount Teide, the highest point in Spain. It is a National Park now and heavily protected.
Exhibition: Thomas Houseago
Banca March celebrates its centenary with the first exhibition in Spain of Thomas Houseago, featuring monumental sculptures in its Madrid garden.
Some people believe that the Pyramids of Giza are the original tourist trap - actually the origin of travelling to discover new things. Local guides told stories to Roman and Greek travellers who came to see the structures during Antiquity. They spiced them up with pharaoh curses because who doesn't love a good horror tale?
10th December 2025: Oxford, trains and back to London {United Kingdom, December 2025}
I got up, used the kettle in the room to prepare a quick coffee… and one look at the radiator told me how it worked. I must have been much more tired than I realised the night before… I left my lug…
