Welcome to the home of Jonathan Jones. A software professional who likes to take photos and review things living in Switzerland.
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Summer in London, Troon & Edinburgh
Trip report from our trip to the UK taking in London, Derbyshire, Troon and Edinburgh including golf, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and many restaurants.
Monday, August 25, 2025Food and Drink Disney World Experience
Food and drink reviews from our 8 night stay at Walt Disney World, Orlando in 2025 including table service restaurants, buffets, and quick service options.
Friday, August 1, 2025The magic of Disney World and Animal Kingdom Lodge
Trip report of our visit to Orlando for a stay at Animal Kingdom Lodge (Jambo House) and visits to every Disney World park: Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Epcot and Hollywood Studios.
Monday, June 2, 2025A week's holiday to the Isle of Arran
The Isle of Arran is the Scottish island I have visited most often. This time we stayed in Whiting Bay. I enjoyed a hike up Arran’s highest point - Goatfell, lots of good food and even took an Alpaca for a walk.
Saturday, June 29, 2024Automating the publication of my Out of Ten reviews using Zapier and Notion
Using Zapier’s free plan I attempt to automatically trigger the Github action workflow which publishes this website, whenever I add a new Out of Ten review to my Notion database.
Saturday, March 2, 2024Back to Edinburgh for a mini zookeeper experience
My second trip report to Edinburgh - this time it was for the mini zookeeper experience at Edinburgh Zoo, a visit to Edinburgh Castle and the adjacent Camera Obscura. Edinburgh really loses none of its appeal over time and is a must visit.
Monday, November 13, 2023A week in Balamory / Tobermory (Isle of Mull)
Tobermory was the filming location for the Balamory children’s TV show. We visited for one week to find the Balamory houses, enjoy some great food and take in all of the wonderful nature and wildlife on Scotland’s Isle of Mull.
Sunday, September 10, 2023Three nights as a tourist in London
Three night trip review of London - including afternoon tea at Claridges, Buckingham palace summer opening, Chinatown dumplings and a great boat trip down the Thames with the Thames Clipper / Uber boat.
Saturday, August 26, 2023A trip to the internet in 1996 with The Rough Guide 2.0
Prepare to be transported back in time as I delve into one of my all-time favorite books from my teenage years: The Rough Guide 2.0: The Internet & World Wide Web.
Saturday, June 10, 2023Relaunching my personal website as planetjones.net
An overview of how I migrated planetjones.co.uk to planetjones.net including a custom Hugo theme using Bootstrap, rendering my out of ten reviews from Notion and publishing automatically using Github Actions.
Wednesday, May 3, 2023Google Cloud Run with Micronaut and GraalVM
App Engine. Google Cloud Functions. And now the pinnacle: Google Cloud Run. Here I build a container running (thanks to GraalVM) a natively compiled Micronaut framework application on Google’s latest serverless for containers offering called Cloud Run.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019First steps running a Cloud Task on Spring Cloud Data Flow
Everyone is talking cloud native. Spring might not be the newest kid on the block, but Spring Cloud Data Flow holds bags of promise. Here I give an introduction to Spring Cloud Data Flow and write my first Cloud Task.
Wednesday, November 7, 2018Recent Reviews
I have never known what to make of this program; sometimes good, sometimes bad. It often plays out like a mass produced soap opera. But this was fun and enjoyable TV.
A little pedestrian, but it's still Agatha Christie and it's still worth a watch.
Wonderful writing, cinematography and a brilliant build up. The ending felt a little too convenient and perhaps too much. But this series gets better and better.
Latest Food
Five Guys, Landquart is expensive (60 CHF for two burgers and fries) and the food was served lukewarm. I won’t rush back.
February 21, 2026
Latest Microblog
Incredible amounts of snow at Klosters, Switzerland. When we arrived it looked like spring. Now it’s all white and there is over 1 metre of fresh snow… it’s still coming down!