Planning is for sensible people. My own planning has consisted of putting a few waypoints into Google Maps and having dinner with a motorcycling living legend, who specifically advised me not to overplan. Continue reading “Planning, Prepping, Packing”
History shuddered. A creaking three-hundred-year-old economic model collided with
Continue reading “Ted Simon Tells It Like It Is”
“Blac” means “pale” in Old English. This can be interpreted as the opposite of its current Modern English meaning. It also makes total sense: colourless. “Rīdere”: “mounted warrior”, “rider”, “knight”, from Middle German, or possibly Old Dutch. Irish and Welsh have similar words. It also means “smile” or “laughter” in Latin. Continue reading “Before We Begin”
