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Monthly Archives April 2009

Loch Gilphead, Thursday

Today I communed with a seal. I was riding a bike along the edge of Loch Gilphead, when I noticed a seal sunning itself on a rock right next to the shore. I got off my bike, and started to walk slowly towards the shoreline, not wanting to disturb the seal. It stared at me […]

Posted 23 April 2009 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Loch Gilphead, Wednesday

I just woke up, alone, in the cabin in the Scottish Highlands. It is late-afternoon, and milky diffuse light blurs the horizon over the loch outside the window. The world is silent. I feel like I am in one of those quiet, existential European films. Maybe even something really high-brow by that Swedish guy who […]

Posted 22 April 2009 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Faux Francais

We were watching a French tour group carrying on on the boat yesterday afternoon, coming back from Naxos to Athens. The group leader had got out an acoustic guitar, and was singing horrendously, and everybody in the group pretending to be having a great time, looking as if they weren’t having a great time at […]

Posted 18 April 2009 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Santorini and Naxos

Santorini was the first island we visited, just because we had been told that the view is incredible. It is, but there’s not much else to the island. Santorini is very small, but in tourist terms very big - so the island doesn’t seem to have much life of its own. It is all an […]

Posted 16 April 2009 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Stray dogs in the marble bathroom

First time in Greece, landed in Athens the day before yesterday. I haven’t even seen the famously beautiful bits yet, but I already love this country. Athens seems very underrated to me: I’ve heard various opinions that it is a dirty, uninteresting city - and I disagree totally. It is sprawling, dirty, anarchic, and for […]

Posted 14 April 2009 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Crucible

Fight scene!

In court

To the gallows

Tragic ending

Posted 02 April 2009 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

My theory of relativity

The phenomenon of time is relative to whichever clock you checked. That is why I am often (and mistakenly) considered “late” for work.

Posted 02 April 2009 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °