We were tired and fattened and half drunk from dinner, but the early evening was warm and calm. Before the train back to London, we walked down along the shore to catch the last light that Whitstable Bay could spare. It was beautiful. We could have spent the night sleeping right there on the sand, but she’d already paid for the return tickets.
Category: Travel
Take Courage – Travel in London
The weather has been almost intolerably warm in the capital these last few weeks. To be honest, I’ve been struggling. It’s rare that I don’t get a funny look when I confess to my distaste for hot weather, but it’s the truth. A sun worshipper, I am most definitely not. In fact, I was never…
Hangin’ with the fishes.
I’m told that the collective noun for Koi is a Koromo, but I’m not exactly sure if that’s the truth – or even if these fish were definitely Koi.
Words to hear your first time in Cannes
“I’ve been coming to Cannes for 16 years and this is the worst weather I’ve ever seen here.” I’m not sure why it had to rain so appallingly for my first visit to Cannes. If I was the suspicious kind, a paranoid Alex Jones or David Ike type, I would almost put it down to some elaborate…
London England in the Extreme Siberian Super Blast Beast from the East Blizzard
London – The city is four days into this particular spot of unusual weather and I’m yet to bore of it. The morning opened mildly with a fair portion of the last few days of snow almost completely melted. Nevertheless, the wind was still perishing and it wasn’t long before the electroplating fired back up. The…
The Siberian Blast continues in the UK
London – It’s now three days into the big Siberian Blast and things look to be getting rather serious in certain parts of the country. We’ve taken a fair battering in London (and I expect there’s more to come), but not so much that I’ve stopped enjoying it just yet. I was strolling in the …
West London under the Siberian Blast European Super-Freeze
London – I’ll tell you what. It’s been snowing quite heavily for a couple of days now, and I can’t get enough of this weather. As soon as I got to work, I was the first – and I’d say only ever – one out on the third floor terrace, pushing prints into the thick…
Winter travels – Photodump
I haven’t posted anything in quite a while, and as I don’t have a huge amount of free time at the moment, I thought that a photo-centric post would better communicate what I’ve been up to recently. It also helps that Herself gifted me with a rather entertaining telephoto lens for Christmas. We spent our…
Why are there so many stray cats in Corfu?
The Strays of Corfu On a recent trip to Corfu, I couldn’t help but note the overwhelming number of stray dogs and cats that know only the streets and alleys of this island as home. Though mostly unthreatening and passive in nature, many of these poor creatures are often diseased, starving, and injured. Strays are…
What we did at the oyster festival
One of the upsides to spending my weekends and summer holidays washing pots and dishes in a seafood restaurant on the Irish Coast as a teenager was that I was able to sample and acquire a taste for a wide range of strange and exotic foods whose very mention – almost without exception – induced…
London Street Art Ultra Gallery Pt. 3
I wasn’t joking when I said I took a lot of photos. You can now follow my adventures on Instagram here.
London Street Art Ultra Gallery Pt. 2
Here’s part 2 of our travels on Sunday. You can now follow my adventures on Instagram here.
No one is busy in this world
I didn’t post anything last week as I was in Greece for their Orthodox Church’s Easter celebrations – of which I will write about soon. I took around 1,000 photographs and am currently weeding my way through the best of them. Until then, here are the travel notices from Camden Road station this week. You…
Look beyond the imperfections
It’s Friday, which means, besides suffering from a slight hangover from Saint Patrick’s day, it’s time for the round-up of travel notices from the past week. I hope they give you something to think about over the weekend.
Saint Patrick’s Day Parade London 2016
On Sunday morning, thousands of revelers gathered in Central London to celebrate the annual Saint Patrick’s Day festival and parade. Patrick may be the patron saint of Ireland, but it’s not so well known that the man mythology claims to have driven the snakes from Irish shores was actually born in Britain. In light of…