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“Feel like going out and smashing windows”

Took a trip to Lisbon.

Up there with my favourite ever cities now - will certainly go back there again.

I absolutely slacked off of my diet though; didn’t track a single day - drank a lot of alcohol, ate a lot of shell fish.

Cervejaria Ramiro - as featured on Bourdain in the past is LEGIT AMAZING. Steak sandwiches for dessert. The kind of service where there is a new beer placed in front of you just as you finish the last one kind of amazing. Recommended.

Just walking around, still warm nights, road beers in hand. Surrounded by fellow revellers.

Now though, it’s back to work (nightshifts, offshore) and also back to work on my diet. 

Quick stationary bike session at the end of my shift last night and I’m going to do a c25k day at the end of this shift.

Tracking on myfitnesspal again; making good choices again, got back on the horse.

Post title from the track ‘Lisbon’ by Wolf Alice

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“…last year this photograph of children looking at their smartphones by Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam [went viral.] It was often accompanied by outraged, dispirited comments such as “a perfect metaphor for our age,” “the end of civilization” or “a sad picture of our society”.

…It turns out that the Rijksmuseum has an app that, among other things, contains guided tours and further information about the works on display. As part of their visit to the museum, the children, who minutes earlier had admired the art and listened attentively to explanations by expert adults, had been instructed to complete an assignment by their school teachers, using, among other things, the museum’s excellent smartphone app….

The tragic thing is that this — the truth — will never go viral. So, I wonder, what is more likely to bring about the death of civilization, children using smartphones to learn about art or the willful ignorance of adults who are too quick to make assumptions?” José Picardo, Medium

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Finished this earlier. Incredible. Visceral. 5/5. Look it up and check it out.

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Love these.

Very happy to have this Zoe Pawlak piece hanging in my hall... (without the “Every Contemplation text”)

Zoe Pawlak

Landscapes

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Starting on this today. Title fits my mood - delayed on the rig by weather. I've seen the movie based on this 'Being Flynn' - De Niro, Paul Dano, Julianne Moore. Hope it's good! http://www.goodreads.com/themangus Join me on Goodreads.

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JORAM ROUKES ©

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In the cool down after another day of couch 2 5k. Waking at 6km/hr and running at 9.5km/hr with a minor gradient on the running machine. I haven't been doing c25k every few days per the programme but just dipping in and out if I feel like running / the bike isn't available in the gym at my work. I'd recommend the programme to anyone looking for a start to running. Suits my style anyway and I'm sure it'll work for most people. Had 2 days off the gym for work reasons and had fuller meals after shift than I would usually so this gym session was very much required.

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-Dylan Moran

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»all of my good ideas are battles« by adam katz

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le Tour

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Mark Rothko - Green over Blue, 1956

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Christophe Jacrot

Cities In The Rain

New York City

New York City

Paris

Paris

Hong-Kong

Tokyo

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“How could I forget to mention the bicycle”

Cycling and walking have been the 2 main forms of exercise I’ve been using to lose weight.

Nothing special about the walking - making a decision to more often than not walk where I would have potentially taken a cab in the past has though certainly resulted in my step count being way up on what it would have been in prior months / years. Also, sometimes just heading out with my phone, plugged into an audiobook has been a great stress reliever and those extra steps have worked out.

Cycling though has been great. It’s a return to a lost love and I love it more now. It’s hasn’t saved me any money though, 2 new bikes in 2 years - Whyte Shoreditch, Boardman Carbon Road Team - and all the accessories that come with that results in £s and well as lbs lost.

When I’m at work (I work on an oil rig) I spend a lot of time thinking about places I could ride to and working out the logistics. It’s an old passion that has burned anew.

With that in mind, I’m currently looking into a bike ride around the Isle of Arran. Looks beautiful, somewhere I’ve never been, not too far a train journey from home - should be a nice over night island stay.

When I’m offshore and using the gym - running, rowing, cycling, cross-trainer, basically just pounding cardio... in a sweat box, nothing interesting to look at, I am just desperate to be on a bike heading out somewhere instead.

“ How could I forget to mention the bicycle is a good invention”

Bicycle Song - Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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Edinburgh to Berwick. Done.

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Finished my re-read of Hey Nostradamus a few days ago.

Let it absorb for a while and decided it still remains one of my absolute all time favourite books. Perfect story telling. 

If you haven’t read it, give it a shot.

Join me over on Goodreads, let me know your thoughts.

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“GOD IS NOWHERE/GOD IS NOW HERE/GOD IS NOWHERE/GOD IS NOW HERE. When this binder with these words was found, caked in my evaporating blood, people made a big fuss about it, and when my body is shortly lowered down into the planet, these same words will be felt-penned all over the surface of my white coffin. But all I was doing was trying to clear out my head and think of nothing, to generate enough silence to make time stand still.”

Douglas Coupland - Hey Nostradamus!

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Shit.

It’s real.

Edinburgh to Newcastle over 2 days is the plan.

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Little cycle around Glasgow Green testing the ride height and such on my new Bike. 

It’s pretty legit. 

Gearing up for Edinburgh - Berwick - Newcastle.