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Earlier this month – Wednesday the 11th through Sunday the 15th – I went to London. Here’s a rundown of some of the stuff I did.

Wednesday

I landed and dropped off my bag at my hotel in Spitalfields. From there I walked to Camden, mostly along the Regent’s Canal. I crossed two new bridges on the way, by foot: Espérance Bridge and Camden Lock Bridge. I had lunch at a Nando’s in Camden, which they told me had just opened up that week. I walked around the Camden market and got bored with it pretty quick, so continues south and headed back to my hotel from Euston Station.

If you’ve talked to me for more than a few minutes, you know about my interest¹ in bridges.

But my interest isn’t specifically in the bridges themselves, it’s in their crossing. Specifically, I love walking and biking across bridges. One experiences an open-air crossing in a completely different manner than by driving or being on or in² some other enclosed mode of transit.

👉 Here’s the list of bridges I’ve traversed on foot or by bicycle. 👈

Below is an outline of the steps to set up your blog using Hugo, host it on GitHub Pages, and serve it using a custom DNS. I wrote this for myself, partly to make sense of it all, and partly in case I need to do it again or fix anything.

Make your blog

Follow the Hugo quickstart guide to get a Hugo blog going. Choose a theme, write some content, preview it using the dev server, etc.

For the Maps Timeline project, I want to be able to import all of my Google Photos and show them

File Structure Overview

Google Takeout exports photos in a .tgz file with the following structure:

- Takeout
   - Google Photos
     - Photos from 2015
     - Photos from 2016
     - Photos from 2017
     ...
     - <Album 1>
     - <Album 2>
     - <Album 3>
     ...

, where Photos from <year> are literal names and <Album>s, etc. are whatever the names of your Google Photos albums are. Photos live canonically in the Photos from <year> folders, and are duplicated in album folders.