History of Park Walk including number 5 Little Chelsea London Number 5 Park Walk was built around 1725, near the end of the reign of King George I. It is [ … ]
Viet Nam
Introduction This post is an experiment in recording a journey as it happens to South East Asia, our fourth, this time popping into Luang Prabang in Laos for a bit [ … ]
Laos and Thailand
The Lady Elizabeth and the Lady Margaret inspecting the Wat Longkhun Temple on the opposite bank of the Mekong from Luang Prabang, Laos. “When the coronation of a King in [ … ]
Cambodia, Angor Wat
Angor Waw, early eveningDawn over the sacred lake, behind us were over a hundred tourists with cameras.Classic stupaA pair of headsAngor WatFrom a Temple in Bangkok ,ThailandRather hot, in front [ … ]
Wimbledon Common, summer and winter
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Box Art 2019
ThessalonikaMons Claudianus in the Red Sea Mountains of Egypt. The Roman quarries were the source of the columns of the Pantheon in Rome. Nearby are the famous quarries of Mons [ … ]
Cuba
Dusk at Playa Largo from Vinola & Zuleida” hostel right on the beach. It is situated at the head of the famous Bay of Pigs where, in 1961, 1300 CIA [ … ]
The Scream by Edvard Munch
The Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit nightmare. cartoon in the Daily Telegraph, 9 January 2019Article in The Guardian, 9 January 2019, regarding an exhibition of Edvard Munch’s “Love and Angst” [ … ]
Dubai
View of the World Trade Centre in Dubai circa 1977, isolated in the middle of the Desert. I was in Dubai at the time building the leisure centre Al Nasr [ … ]