How deeply undignified. It seems to be a temporary state for some Camden style festival, so I hope that next time I see them they will have reverted to their shiny black as befits cats […]
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How deeply undignified. It seems to be a temporary state for some Camden style festival, so I hope that next time I see them they will have reverted to their shiny black as befits cats […]
… or at least, not as far as I know. Everything is upside down, including the For Sale sign.
In contrast with East Beach, the West beach cafe is lovely. Designed by Asif Khan, it’s modest and entirely appropriate to its location, looking a bit like a container at the top of the beach. […]
This was the much-postponed trip for Marion’s birthday, and we finally made it to Littlehampton, and the Thomas Heatherwick-designed cafe. The food was really terrific, but the architecture? The most interesting side of the building […]
After we’d walked along the Long Mynd in the morning, a complete contrast to the valleys of the previous day, all moorland and huge horizons, we were off to Stokesay Castle. It’s is a wonderfully […]
Exploits in Istanbul 10.1 Last day mopping up – up the Galata tower, partly because it’s there, and it’s old and it has a great view, and also because it’s our local tower, and we […]
Exploits in Istanbul 9.1 Istanbul is probably the least bike-friendly city I’ve been to – evil hills, scary taxi drivers, unusable pavements for pedestrians and cobbles and potholes for all. So it’s surprising how many […]
Exploits in Istanbul 8.2 Project 2: to visit the two grand railway stations in Istanbul, the one European, the other Asian. The trains used to be put on a ferry and shipped across the Bosphorus, […]
Exploits in Istanbul 8.1 Went walking around a totally different kind of area today, up the west side of the Golden Horn. The streets are tiny and the houses have bay fronts. Parts are almost […]
Exploits in Istanbul 7.1 The Alternative Bosphorus Cruise as devised by Robin from a multitude of sources started by riding the Metro the end of the line. It’s new, and unbelievably deep – we must […]