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When I stayed in Orrison with a group of friends, only one of us spoke, waving around the rest of us as fellow travellers. Shortly after, a lovely Brazilian girl in a mixture of Portuguese and english spoke about how happy she was and started crying. After that the place clapped and cheered and...
As someone who uses statistics in my work, I'm well aware of this fact. However I picked one simple reference at random amongst many. To protect myself and my family, I went to the trouble of looking into reducing risk if we should become infected. We can do no more until there is a vaccine...
I understand everyone's concern about disinformation on the internet. This is a huge problem and as well as that, the politicisation of science has become a problem. This is not a topic for here nor will I go into the problems with the affects on my own science speciality. My purpose is to point...
I stick to our government's advice and guidelines. This is because my community does and I don't want to upset people. However I read this some time ago:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.552.1109&rep=rep1&type=pdf
I am not a specialist but find it interesting that it was...
Put at it's simplest, in Europe, the 1 litre/1 US quart transparent bag can contain liquids/gels/pastes up to 100ml/0.1 US quart for each item. My experience is that occasionally some people have more than one transparent bag (for example a LOT of makeup) and don't get into trouble as long as...
Yes we did the same last May. The Metro also can get you to the coast at Matoshinos to start the Littoral, if you don't walk down the Douro and 'round the corner'.
Thank you Purky for a brilliant travelogue for this pilgrim way - I am following you regularly. I hope your injury is not serious.
I would be really grateful if at some point you could share your packing list - I note your tent is a Terra Nova Laser Competition which I had shortlisted myself...
For those who missed it, the film is showing again in Ireland from November 23, see http://www.iftn.ie/news/DistributionNews/?act1=record&aid=73&rid=4292321&tpl=archnews
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