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When you get to Abu Dhabi and see “FAB” everywhere, people of a certain age might expect to see Thunderbirds. #GhostOnTour

*FAB - First Abu Dhabi Bank

It’s been a grand #GhostOnTour. Time to head south.

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It’s that part of #GhostOnTour where it’s almost time to head for the airport, and this Ghost is just so tired she wants to cry.

Theory: there is a KPI for cashiers at #Pret to keep as many paper napkins as possible behind the counter. Is there some grand prize each month for the cashier that distributes the fewest. #GhostOnTour #StickyFingers

Sitrep: Plane leaves in 13-ish hours. Quick breakfast. Shower. Pack. Check out. Last errands. Visit the park. #GhostOnTour

In position, getting ready to hum the airs from that infernal nonsense, #Pinafore. #OpeningNight #GhostOnTour

a larger-than-life sculpture of Samson slaying a Philistine, front and centre at the V&A, no matter how magnificent, seems to be displayed in poor taste, given current events…#GhostOnTour

My inner #stationery nerd has discovered a stand-alone #Fabbriano paper shop. This won’t end well. #GhostOnTour

Sitrep: I have entered #Hatchard’s. My plane home leaves Friday night. I may be some time. #Books #GhostOnTour

Theory: the Tube gangways at London Victoria (and those at Green Park) were designed and excavated by a committee of rabbit-warren builders. #GhostOnTour

Walking around #London never gets dull, there’s always something to draw your eye … a cobbled lane way, the rhythm of grand buildings, or something warm, breaking up the blues and greys of the endless afternoon twilight of the City. #GhostOnTour
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Related: I hope the #cocktails are better than the puns. #GhostOnTour

I’m in a cafe bookshop sheltering from the weather and there is much upset from a certain demographic of punter because the loo is out of order. #GhostOnTour #KeepYourKneesTogether

Is there anything more wholesome than spying a small child taking their plastic dinosaur toys to show them to the dinosaur fossils at the museum? #GhostOnTour

OH in the Natural History Museum, from a lady with a thick Spanish accent admonishing a child: No that is NOT a big capybara, it’s a wombat. #GhostOnTour

Once again, we have reached the part of #GhostOnTour where we need to visit the laundromat.

When you’re trying not to trip over all the dogs in the park, and you nearly trip over a #robin. #GhostOnTour

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Glorious afternoon in the park. #GhostOnTour

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This morning in #GhostOnTour, the fire alarms have gone off, the guests have been evacuated, in all sorts of states of dress and undress, the fire brigade is here. I expect someone has burnt their toast, or left the shower door open and the steam has tripped the alarm.

Tonight’s Southbank outrage involves: a) no cloak room; and b) ppl of a certain generation complaining the ice-cream was too cold. #GhostOnTour

In other news, I have just had my hand locked off by a poodle called Bella. #GhostOnTour

Lovely time in elegant and handsome Bath, about to get manic with Christmas markets. I look forward to seeing Bath again. #GhostOnTour

To the drunken yob too wasted to stand up straight, that thought he could growl at me, then get abusive when I ignored his proposition and kept walking, rethink your life choices and leave people alone. #GhostOnTour

Hums *the frosty and the ivy* . #GhostOnTour

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It’s warmer in my fridge. Not as pretty, but warmer. #GhostOnTour

Important health and safety notice at the Roman Baths. #GhostOnTour

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Sitrep: visiting a bathhouse. #Bath #GhostOnTour

Also, to the party of Americans who’ve just sat down, it’s very very rude, the height of bad manners, even, to break open your cakes from a different shop and ask for napkins and cutlery. #GhostOnTour

Related: it’s toasty toasty warm in here. #GhostOnTour

Sitrep: sitting in a whole-in-the-wall in Bath, Schubert Ave Maria in a jazz sax arrangement, fortified by coffee after a cancelled train out of Exeter, a bum steer from Google Maps, and a joker blowing bubbles in the square making ppl think it’s snowing. #GhostOnTour

Lovely chilly morning in Lyme Regis. The church bells are pealing, the waves are crashing along the shore, some of the shops are opened, people mill about, or walk uncooperative dogs. #GhostOnTour

There’ll be a lighting of the Christmas Tree in #LymeRegis, and also Morris Dancers kitted out in bells and glow sticks. #GhostOnTour

This is why I like wandering around Central London. #GhostOnTour #FootsoreGhost

The #swan spa, at the Round Pond. Note someone still growing into their adult feathers. #GhostOnTour

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Today in #GhostOnTour, I’ve realised that I haven’t seen my jar of Vegemite since Monday.

Mosaic birds on wires at the #MegaroMusikis Metro Station. #Athens #GhostOnTour

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Embussed. Next stop Delphi to consult the Shade of the Pythia. #GhostOnTour

That’s twice in as many days I’ve been “blessed” by a pigeon. #grumble #GhostOnTour

Embussed. Sitting backwards. On a mystery ride (it’s Sunday timetable, I hopped on the first bus going anywhere) and am sat opposite a fellow crossing himself every 5 seconds. Do I really look that bad? #GhostOnTour

I’m camped across the road from a school, and as I headed out, I hop I heard “καλημέρα τμήματα” (good morning classes) not “καλημέρα θύματα” (good morning victims). #GhostOnTour

Today in “You need to do signage better” I accidentally walked into the men’s loos. #GhostOnTour

A view from Homer’s Taphos. #GhostOnTour

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Hermes, the Wonder Dog. #GhostOnTour

That thing, when you take stock after a long haul flight in sardine class and count the random bruises, scratches and broken nails that you just can’t explain. #GhostOnTour

In further adventures in trip planning, I spotted the perfect serviced apartment for a London trip a couple of weeks ago, but can I remember what it was called? #GhostOnTour

When you go to visit your cultural heritage at the British Museum and it’s closed for maintenance. #SadGhost #GhostOnTour

There are lovely things to see and buy, gorgeous timber details to admire, very clean and convenient bathrooms, and a coffee shop. I may never leave. #GhostOnTour #LibertyLondon

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I have three umbrellas, all of them safely 16,000 km to the south-east, where they are no use to man nor beast. #GhostOnTour #Rain

Out and about to find a thermometer, some paracetamol, and cough syrup. #GhostOnTour #SickGhost

Sitrep: waiting for the 360 bus. Sitting next to me, a poor dishevelled soul that could be a body double for a former UK Prime Minister. #GhostOnTour

Elephant Stamp to the genius that thinks cabbage salad on a long haul
flight menu is a fartingly good idea. #GhostOnTour

We’ll be (currently) about 15 mins late out of LHR. They were still unloading five mins ago. I have a two hour layover in DXB. I hope they hold that ✈️ ! #GhostOnTour #HomewardBound

The western hotel buffet breakfast must be one of the most wonderful things ever devised. #GhostOnTour

There’s a very shady, sweaty, nervy looking Russian gentleman smoking too many cigarettes on this cruise. Perhaps he’s a bad sailor, perhaps he’s worried about a short stop on Skorpios. Being in his general vicinity is giving Graham Greene novel vibes. #GhostOnTour