Cambridge — It was a perfect day in Boston. A little too warm for what I was wearing (the weather said thunderstorms! I looked like a silly person in a sweater and boots in the 26°C sun.) The itinerary was simple: breakfast at a local diner near the HBS dorms, walk walk walk, find lobster rolls for dinner. (Because… Boston.) I shouldn’t have been traveling. My past self — oh, Christine! — had waaaay too m...
Milton keynes — It was my first — and, as of this writing, only — visit to the town of Milton Keynes, one of a handful of ‘new towns’ created during the 1960s in an effort to relieve housing congestion in London. I ...
Benfleet — It’s been a long weekend of time spent with the extended family (on my mum’s side). A mixture of birthday and anniversary celebrations, stretching from Friday through to this evening. I’ve left early...
New haven — I’m waiting for the commuter train at the New Haven train station, which is almost 100 years old. My stop is New London, CT, just 50 minutes away but the board reads Harrisburg, PA. I have to check wi...
A late summer afternoon Boston South Station, about to head west on the Commuter Rail
Normal service
They did it. They killed the split-flat.
Voie A, voie 1, le dilemme du voyageur à La Défense
Ghost in the Machine
Subway tunes
Shibuya Station. Wall paintings artist famous in the world, Taro Okamoto.
Yoyogi Station. Artistic station using scrap rail remains few in Tokyo.
OK, it's not St Pancras, but it's still a beautiful piece of architecture!
Waiting... for a train
Floating escalators
A lot of snow falling in Tokyo, most trains were stuck.
And we wait. For the end of a week, we wait. Call out the old boys & girls.
Milton Keynes station: Gateway to a Stepford world; Apocalyptic.
Somehow always a wonderful place to pause and breathe for a moment... Before diving into the Tokyo underground ;)
Commuting by train. People are passing through the brand new electronic gate. Yes, new, do you see queuing people there?
Commuting by train in Singapore. Was a great experience. Short wait to next train. Map is very easy to understand.
Commuting by train in Malaysia was a bit better
Yale students and New Haveners wait for trains to New York at the end of the semester
Night always arrives too quickly.
Pausing briefly to catch some sun before the next train.
Waiting for the 18:52 at Benfleet.
Flipboards
This time last year, realized I prefer the feeling of living on Chinese train platforms over airports. Or standing still.
Off again.