Year: 1997

  • Venice

    This is part 2 of 2 in Italy by train

    Milan en route Venice 20 Jul 1997 Need to change trains at Milan: I killed some hours walking to the YH, but found it had shut for the morning. I did not yet have a reservation for staying the last night on the return trip, but I thought I’d figure something out later – this…

  • Italy by train

    This is part 1 of 2 in Italy by train

    19th – 26th July 1997 Foreword 02 Apr 2026 These are from 31 pages of handwritten notes from July 1997, written across the trip itself – in hostel common rooms, on trains, on a station floor at 2am. I was 26, living in Reading UK, working for ICL on a project called OpenPAS. I’ve always…