A great resource: ViaMichelin helped me find the location of the best ice-cream in the world (corner of Rue des Deux Ponts and Rue St. Louis-en-l’Ile, Paris).
It also told me that it would take 16h01 to drive from my home to the village in Poland that my family are named after (1,447km away).
Metafilter discusses the Bobacabana, a house entirely devoted to Star Wars merchandise.
To celebrate our arrival in our new house, a sad story of a gas leak in the street, 94 years ago.
On a Virgin train from Oxford to Brighton, and once again I find myself wondering why Virgin Trains is pretending so hard that it’s an airline.
We are back (almost) online after our house move, and are now based in sunny Brighton. So the blog has a new name, not least because I was getting a bit tired of the old one. It also has a new URL (islingwordstreet.com), though lewes.typepad.com will still work.