Happy New Year! Welcome to 2026 and all the adventures that it may bring us! I very much enjoyed 2025. Myself and my husband had several short breaks, which of course involved the odd location or two. Some I actually managed to write about for this blog - the pub from 'Trainspotting' in Glasgow, and … Continue reading New Year, new focus, and the ‘Andor effect’
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I hadn’t expected to be able to do another Andor related blog post so soon but having just watched the first few episodes of season 2 I realised that I’d already been to Chandrila… Spoiler free! There are no spoilers for those who haven't seen the first 3 episodes of Andor: A Star Wars Story … Continue reading Mon Mothma’s Montserrat Mansion – visiting Chandrila on a budget
How a Brutalist experiment became the Star Wars planet - Coruscant. In another life I might have been a town planner. I did study it for a time, but after working in my local council planning department I realised it was more about money and less about what is best for residents. Despite that I’ve … Continue reading Andor – A Star Wars Story at the Barbican, London
There's tired and then there's post Star Wars Celebration tired! Four days is possibly far too much Star Wars for most people. Much fun was had though in amongst the queues and whooping at screens. It took over a week to get through the photos, the swag and recover from the dreaded ‘con crud’. This … Continue reading The World Is Not Enough for Star Wars
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