Author: sroot

  • Eurocon – The arrival

    I made it safely! The drive from Calais to… erm, wherever we are (TomTom did it’s job) took 3 hours so I pulled into the car park at 02:15 local time. Surprisingly there were still a few people up (perhaps just as well or I would never have found my room and had to sleep…

  • EuroCon I'm going I'm going!

    This is not something I expected to be writing last week. It’s not even something I expected to write two days ago but life moves in mysterious ways, so here I am, Laptop, Book, Coffee, sitting on the SeaFrance Rodin Dover Calais Ferry, writing for my blog offline because I don’t have internet access. Well,…

  • Hero lost, hero found

    One of my childhood heroes died last week. I’ll always remember how he taught me to ski, lessons so memorable I remember them over 20 years later. I’ll always remember how he was the one who picked me up and carried me over 100m down the ski slope when I fell and broke my wrist…