The Old Ways
I finished reading 'The Old Ways', Robert Macfarlane's joyous account of journeys on foot, on a plane to South Africa in January. But such is the…
Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
“Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers, and they’ve been known to pick a song or two. Lord they get me off so much, they pick me…
Why the Lea Valley makes London liveable
The Lea Valley has been my escape to greenery since moving to London nearly twenty years ago. Back then, living on the Kingsmead estate in Homerton,…
Souk Secrets
Marrakech is one of those places that has probably always been a market town. Certainly I learned enough on this trip to know that it has…
Cape Town – where the oceans meet
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…
English Magic
Jeremy Deller’s exhibition for the British Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, English Magic, is subversively witty and political, but most importantly it is currently on…
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.
Festive Fifteen 2013
It’s Festive Fifteen time again – my annual homage to John Peel and his annual round-up of the year’s best new music (the Festive Fifty). The…
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.…
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