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🆕 9th May 2026: Limited time only (Madrid, Spain) jbinnacle.com/2026/09/26/9... #Madrid #Spain #travel #JBinnacle #MazdaHouse #ToriKey #CanalIsabelII #AnaLocking
9th May 2026: Limited time only (Madrid, Spain)
I’m in no position to deny that I have a thing for any “limited time only” visit, so I won’t. I had seen in the newspaper that the water company Canal de Isabel II had installed some Japanese-inspi…
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September 25, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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🆕 28th April 2026: Assyrian art and brunch, Madrid (Spain) jbinnacle.com/2026/09/19/2... #Madrid #Caixaforum #Asurbanipal #archaeology #Spain #travel #JBinnacle
28th April 2026: Assyrian art and brunch, Madrid (Spain)
I organised a day out for a friend who needed a small pick-me-up, making plans for two. Again, the main issue getting to Madrid was transportation. For once my train was pretty much on time (ish. I…
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September 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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Recap: 9th – 11th December 2025: Oxford & London {United Kingdom, December 2025} jbinnacle.com/tag/trip-uni... #London #Oxford #JBinnacle #travel
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May 16, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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Recap! France & Monaco, November 2025 jbinnacle.com/tag/trip-fra...
#France #Paris #Nice #Hyde #Monaco #HydeInside2025 #NotreDame #GaleriedePaleontologieetdAnatomiecomparée #music #livemusic #concert #JRock #CoteDAzur #FrenchRiviera #MonteCarlo #MonacoVille #CoteDAzur #travel #JBinnacle
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March 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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Recap: 14th - 18th July 2025. Trip: Dinosaur Eggs Loarre & Zaragoza, July 2025 jbinnacle.com/tag/trip-din... #UniversidadDeZaragoza #MuseoCienciasNaturalesZaragoza #HuevosLoarre #Loarre #CursosUnizar #palaeontology #dinosauregg #travel #JBinnacle #YacimientosMurero #OodinoLab
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November 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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🆕 31st January 2026: Mistakes were made around the Tercios (Madrid, Spain jbinnacle.com/2026/06/27/3... #DíaDeLosTercios #Madrid #travel #JBinnacle
31st January 2026: Mistakes were made around the Tercios (Madrid, Spain)
A local cultural association organised a day trip to Madrid on the 31st of January to witness the historical re-enactment Día de Los Tercios (Tercios Day). Tercios (thirds) were the Spanish Empire’…
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June 27, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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🆕 7th March 2026: Minerals, ukiyo-e and paella (Madrid, Spain) jbinnacle.com/2026/07/25/7... #Expominerales #UkiyoE #AcademiaSanFernando #paella #Madrid #travel #JBinnacle
7th March 2026: Minerals, ukiyo-e and paella (Madrid, Spain)
It might very well be that Madrid’s Expominerales is my favourite drop-in convention – free, easy-to-reach, and full of (literal) shiny stuff, most of which I can’t afford anyway, but I can gape at…
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July 25, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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🆕 8th February 2025: La Cúpula – “Opera & Brunch”, Hotel Palace (Madrid, Spain) jbinnacle.com/2026/07/04/8... #Madrid #Spain #ThePalaceHotel #LaCupulaOperaBrunch #travel #JBinnacle
8th February 2025: La Cúpula – “Opera & Brunch”, Hotel Palace (Madrid, Spain)
When I have a “big oh” birthday, I go climb a volcano, when my sibling does, we go for high-end brunch. Not that I am going to complain, at all – I get to tag along. The day, however, could have st…
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July 4, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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Here are all the adventures I had in 2024 while I debate actually opening a YT channel or not fb.watch/wSAhcSuSTC/ #JBinnacle #travel
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January 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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🆕 10th December 2025: Oxford, trains and back to London {United Kingdom, December 2025} jbinnacle.com/2026/05/09/1... #London #Oxford #JBinnacle #travel #NHMLondon #Fern #FernTheDiplodocus #Wicked #WickedLondona
10th December 2025: Oxford, trains and back to London {United Kingdom, December 2025}
I got up, used the kettle in the room to prepare a quick coffee… and one look at the radiator told me how it worked. I must have been much more tired than I realised the night before… I left my lug…
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May 9, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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🆕 17th July 2025: Hands on in the lab! {Dinosaur Eggs Loarre & Zaragoza, July 2025}https://wp.me/p2yJaA-3ck #OodinoLab #HuevosLoarre #Loarre #CursosUnizar #palaeontology #dinosauregg #travel #JBinnacle
October 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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🆕 16th October 2025: Ruta del Agua (Patones, Spain jbinnacle.com/2026/01/17/1... #Patones #CanalDeIsabelII #RutaDelAgua #RioLozoya #Spain #travel #JBinnacle
16th October 2025: Ruta del Agua (Patones, Spain)
This day trip happened because of a fortune cookie, really. A couple of days prior, I had gone to the supermarket and found they already had fortune cookies, which is scary because they usually onl…
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January 17, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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🆕 4th April 2026: Chinese Bronzes in Guadalajara (Spain) jbinnacle.com/2026/09/05/4... #archaeology #ChineseArchaeology #Prehistory #Guadalajara #GuadalajaraSpain #Spain #travel #JBinnacle #中国西南地区青铜文明
4th April 2026: Chinese Bronzes in Guadalajara (Spain)
Palacio del Infantado (Palace of the Infantage) in Guadalajara is an impressive building designed by architect Juan Guas. It is one of the most iconic representatives of the Isabelline architecture…
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September 5, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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🆕 11th December 2025: Underground and University London {United Kingdom, December 2025} jbinnacle.com/2026/05/16/1... #London #BakerStreet #RegentsPark #LondonTransportMuseum #JBinnacle #travel
11th December 2025: Underground and University London {United Kingdom, December 2025}
It was not too much of a chilly London morning. I popped into the underground to go leave my luggage at Liverpool Street station – where there is (you guessed it) a Costa Coffee. Then, I headed tow…
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May 16, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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🆕 3rd & 4th October 2025: Wicked Madrid (Spain) jbinnacle.com/2025/12/27/3... #Wicked #Madrid #NuevoTeatroAlcala #WickedElMusical #CuatroVientos #travel #JBinnacle
3rd & 4th October 2025: Wicked Madrid (Spain)
I am not a big fan of musicals – not because of the genre, but because in general the stories don’t seem to appeal to me. However, I like Wicked. Just before the first instalment of the movie duolo…
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December 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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🆕 15th November 2025: The Côte d’Azur {France & Monaco, November 2025 jbinnacle.com/2026/02/20/1... #Paris #Nice #France #FranceAndMonaco2025 #travel #CoteDAzur #FrenchRiviera #JBinnacle
15th November 2025: The Côte d’Azur {France & Monaco, November 2025}
D****e was leaving Paris about an hour earlier than myself, so I decided to tag along to her station and then backtrack to mine (hey, it was extra friend-time). I’m not good at going back to sleep …
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February 20, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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🆕 9th December 2025: Exploring Oxford {United Kingdom, December 2025 jbinnacle.com/2026/05/03/9... #London #Oxford #JBinnacle #travel #OxfordMuseumOfNAturalHistory #BreakingGround #Megalosaur #AshmoleanMuseum
9th December 2025: Exploring Oxford {United Kingdom, December 2025}
Nothing ever seems to go right before 4:30 in the morning, right? It turned out that when I reached my usual parking lot at the airport, I had mistakenly booked for another one! Ho boy that was str…
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May 3, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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🆕 17th November 2025: Nice is nice! {France & Monaco, November 2025} jbinnacle.com/2026/03/07/1... #Nice #France #FranceAndMonaco2025 #travel #CoteDAzur #FrenchRiviera #JBinnacle
17th November 2025: Nice is nice! {France & Monaco, November 2025}
Yes, I’m sure the joke has been made before – ad nauseam. It still describes my experience pretty well. I was up and ready to go almost an hour earlier than planned, so I left my luggage at the hot…
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March 7, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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28th December 2025: Sabre-toothed cats in Alcalá de Henares (Spain) jbinnacle.com/2026/05/23/2... #AlcalaDeHenares #Spain #Sabretoothedcats #SabreTooth #DientesDeSable #MARPA #JBinnacle #travel
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28th December 2025: Sabre-toothed cats in Alcalá de Henares (Spain)
For my last escapade of the year 2025, I chose a nearby low-effort one – Alcalá de Henares. I was checking out dates for upcoming events in Madrid when I saw that the palaeontology and archaeology …
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May 27, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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🆕 3rd April 2026: Roman mines & archaeology, or how my road trip got hijacked (Spain) jbinnacle.com/2026/08/29/3... #Huete #Garcinarro #MinasRomanasHuete #Spain #travel #JBinnacle
3rd April 2026: Roman mines & archaeology, or how my road trip got hijacked (Spain)
While we were on the train to have Father’s Day brunch, I was asked what my plans for Easter break were – either a couple of day trips or meet my sibling. I explained about the gypsum mines in the …
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August 29, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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🆕 31st March 2026: Euphoria, Shanghai Mama, and 103 Years of Magic (Madrid, Spain) jbinnacle.com/2026/08/22/3... #Madrid #Spain #travel #JBinnacle #BalloonMuseum #Disney #ShangaiMama
31st March 2026: Euphoria, Shanghai Mama, and 103 Years of Magic (Madrid, Spain)
I was on break for Easter, and my sibling, who works in Madrid, proposed to “have lunch and whatever”. That usually means that they want me to find a good place for lunch, and a plan for “whatever”…
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August 22, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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🆕 10th October 2025: Too early for autumn: Bosque de Valdenazar (Yebes, Spain) jbinnacle.com/2026/01/03/1... #Yebes #hike #BosqueDeValdenazar #travel #JBinnacle
10th October 2025: Too early for autumn: Bosque de Valdenazar (Yebes, Spain)
A friend phoned me for a day out, and I gladly agreed. Their idea was to check out the small forest Bosque de Valdenazar, in Yebes. We were hopeful for some nice autumn colours, but as it turned ou…
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January 3, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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🆕 22nd November 2024: “Wicked” (film) on opening day (Madrid, Spain) wp.me/p2yJaA-2Z2 #JBinnacle #travel #Wicked #WickedMovie #Madrid
22nd November 2024: “Wicked” (film) on opening day (Madrid, Spain)
There was a time when you could mute words on social media to avoid spoilers. Since the algorithms have taken over and you can’t curate what you see any more, I decided that the best way to avoid W…
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December 28, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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🆕 19th July 2025: Highway → Murero → Highway → Home {Dinosaur Eggs Loarre & Zaragoza, July 2025} wp.me/p2yJaA-3cS #UniversidadDeZaragoza #Murero #YacimientosMurero #HuevosLoarre #Loarre #CursosUnizar #palaeontology #dinosauregg #travel #JBinnacle
19th July 2025: Highway → Murero → Highway → Home {Dinosaur Eggs Loarre & Zaragoza, July 2025}
While Zaragoza (Saragossa) is not a super-busy city, the noise from the large avenue the hotel was in woke me up early enough to be amongst the first customers at Pannitelli Original Bakery. I had …
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November 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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🆕 9th October 2024: The Asclepieion & the beach {Türkiye, October 2024} wp.me/p2yJaA-2Vv #Turkiye #ViajesElCorteIngles #MapaTours #OxinTravel #JBinnacle #TurquiaUnica #Canakkale #Izmir #travel
9th October 2024: The Asclepieion & the beach {Türkiye, October 2024}
We left around 8:00 towards Pergamon Ancient City Pergamon Antik Kenti, another of Türkiye’s World Heritage sites – Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape, still in the city of Izmir | İ…
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November 23, 2024 at 5:59 PM