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Friday, September 26, 2025

Overheard: Germany

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I was recently in Germany for a few weeks, travelling from town to town and city to city with a DeutschlandTicket. Along the way, I heard a ...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Overheard: Amsterdam tourist season

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As the sun sets on an Amsterdam summer tourist season, here are 17 random things I overheard tourists saying in Amsterdam in summer 2025. It...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Overheard: Newcastle

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Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash I recently spent a few days in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where I heard the following choice sayings: 'Ah...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Circle lines | Brussels

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Photo by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash A few weeks ago, I was in Brussels so took a circular trip on the Brussels metro. I travelled on th...
Monday, April 28, 2025

King's Day, Amsterdam: seen and heard

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Photo by Jannik on Unsplash On King's Day in Amsterdam, I took a walk around the city in the morning - before the big parties start and...
Monday, April 21, 2025

A random trip from Amsterdam

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I read and wrote about a book on Experimental Travel in 2011 with great ideas to do some of the experiments. And then, I never did any of t...
Friday, April 18, 2025

Overhead: London streets

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Photo by Ana Paula Grimaldi on Unsplash I was recently in London. As I walked around, I heard the following: I don't think we need many...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Overheard: emphatic Amsterdam

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Spring has arrived in Amsterdam, and as I've walked around the city, I've heard people being very emphatic: I can zig AND zag! I lea...
Sunday, March 09, 2025

Circle Lines | Berlin

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One day, while in Berlin, I rode the S-Bahn that loops around the city. There are two lines: the S41 goes clockwise, the S42 goes counter-cl...
Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Overheard: Berlin

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I recently spent a few weeks staying in Berlin. As I walked around the city, I over-heard these snatches of conversations: Shall we go up th...
Tuesday, February 04, 2025

Overheard: Benidorm

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I went to Benidorm last week for Benidorm Fest and kept my ears open for interesting chit-chat. Here's what I heard: The thing is, I...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Overheard: Schiphol airport, Irish flights

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I left Schiphol Airport this week, flying to Cork. There were long queues for each part of the journey, where I over-heard Irish voices sayi...
Friday, November 29, 2024

I love it when London cosplays as ____________

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The Mall with NATO flags, 2019, US Embassy in UK, Wikimedia Commons I was recently in London, and my friends Martin and Max alerted me that ...
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Circle Lines | London

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London's Circle Line is one of the oldest in the world but these days Ye Olde Circle Line isn't even a circle - it's a loop wit...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Circle Lines | Vienna

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Vienna Laengenfeldgasse , Herbert Ortner, Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA Vienna does not have a circle line. But with some quick U‐Bahn changes,...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Overheard: Train in Austria

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WESTbahn , Kabelleger, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Two people on a train in Austria are looking at various websites on a laptop. One's a...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Circle Lines | Madrid Metro Line 6

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I was in Madrid earlier this year, and decided to resume a blog series idea - riding a circular metro line . Madrid's circular line - Lí...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Overheard: Hotel lobby, Amsterdam

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A group of five business people are sitting in an Amsterdam hotel lobby, discussing an upcoming presentation. Someone says the word innovati...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Overheard: Amsterdam hotel lobby

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A hotel lobby in Amsterdam. Two middle-aged American women are sipping some wine, while a handsome, muscular, young Dutch guy sits next to t...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Overheard: Derby charity shop

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I'm in a charity shop in Derby, paying at the till for my purchase. The shop assistant is speaking to me, while she talks to her friend....
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