The Anonymous Widower

How Do You Tell Clean From Dirty Clothes When Travelling?

On trips like the one I’ve just done to Gdansk, I travel with enough underwear and socks for the trip, which is one per day and a spare.

Socks are easy to tell if they’re clean, as they are still in a ball, but how do you tell clean from dirty pants.

Hal;fway through the trip, I decided that if your clean pants are carried inside out you can always find them. After all, it is unlikely you would put a dirty pair back in the case with the possibly dirty side out.

I also usually take one new shirt still in its packaging and as many old ones as I need on holiday.  That way, at least one will get to the day I need it, in absolutely pristine condition.

May 7, 2014 Posted by | Transport/Travel | , | Leave a comment

Planning Another Trip

Since my return from Gdansk, I’ve been thinking about another trip to Poland.

I would go a bit more southerly and probably start with two nights in Krakow. I would probably then go to Prague, possibly spending a night en route at either Wroclaw or Poznan.

From then it would be on to Dresden, a city I’ve always wanted to see. From there there would be an intermediate stop before Cologne, where I would run for home using a Eurostar ticket, as I outlined in this post.

So the trip would look something like this.

Day 1 – Krakow

Day 2 – Krakow

Day 3 – Wroclaw/Poznan/Other (?)

Day 4 – Prague

Day 5 – Prague

Day 6 – Dresden

Day 7 – Weimar/Nuremberg/Other (?)

Obviously, nothing is cast in stone and any suggestions would be gratefully received.

May 7, 2014 Posted by | Transport/Travel | , , , , | 4 Comments

The Only Pain Killer I Ever Use

My teeth and mouth are a bit painful tonight, so I’ve resorted to the only pain killer, I’ve ever found effective.

The Only Pain Killer I Ever Use

The Only Pain Killer I Ever Use

I’ve always found it so and I suspect, it is able to deal very well with the muck that seems to run into my mouth.

But after all, so many million Scots can’t be wrong! Can they? Although they probably think my habit of diluting it with London tapwater, is a bit Philistine!

On the other hand there’s a serious article from Time magazine here. This is the first paragraph.

Whiskey is one of the cheapest and best painkillers known to man.” So reported Dr. Harold George Wolff of Cornell last week to the Association of American Physicians meeting at Atlantic City. Earlier doctors, he said, prescribed whiskey freely but were finally forced to discard it for “moral and ethical considerations.

The report is dated May 19th, 1941. The only problem is that they weren’t talking about Scotch whisky, but bourbon.

May 7, 2014 Posted by | Health | , | 2 Comments