"No, I have never heard of a stargate," the Doctor repeated - not very patiently. "And I just told you I didn't arrive by ship." Oh god, his ship, his beautiful TARDIS. How he missed her! "It's not the sort of place you arrive at by ship," he said irritably. "It's between dimensions and it just dumps people here and eventually spits them back out again. No rhyme or reason to it."
Not that he wasn't grateful for the rest, this time around.