Charles Darwin’s Down House
Down House was as much a laboratory as a home when Charles Darwin was in residence – even the resident garden worms became the subject of…
The Museum of London
I have a rule of always visiting the city museum everywhere I go, as a way of gaining an understanding of a new place, and so I spent a lot of time in the Museum of London when I first moved to the Big Smoke. Thus, below is the first entry in what I intend will be a gallery by gallery guide to my favourite bits of said museum of my favourite city.
LA & Santa Monica
I've never been a great Los Angeles fan, since trying to visit the aquarium a few years ago and discovering that there wasn't a pedestrian entrance.…
Yr Wyddfa
Snowdonia is without doubt my favourite holiday destination and not just because Cyrmu is the Watts family’s motherland. The Scottish highlands are bigger but Welsh mountain…
Cape Town
Just about every South African I know has told me Cape Town is the place to go, so I had been looking forward to last week's…
One weekend / two discoveries
A wonderful trip to Bath this weekend has reaped two pleasant discoveries. First, a beer that purports to offer subtle hints of peach amidst its hoppy…
Burton-on-Trent Brewing Capital
Britain’s brewing capital is where I grew up and, in the absence of an official Burton-on-Trent tourist board, I feel required to provide a quick guide…
Spring has sprung
British Sea Power provided the soundtrack to the weekend, with ‘Spring Has Sprung’ proving the perfect accompaniment to the first t-shirt-weather day of the year. It got its first play while I woke the off-road bikes from their winter slumber, and the joyous refrain “birdsong sings in the atmosphere; spring has sprung out of nothing” kept popping back into my head throughout the day as Liz and I followed the River Lea from our home in Walthamstow down to the Thames at Limehouse.
Everything a river should be
Travelling back from a ridiculously short work trip to Monterrey I have been thinking about rivers. A conjunction of three events has put waterways in my…
Edinburgh Science Festival
I write this in between gazing out of the window at the beautiful north east coast of England as my train wends its way back to…
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