Autumn in the Highlands
I had a few plans lined up for my week in Scotland, hoping to take advantage of the autumn colours by going up in mid-October rather than the usual November. The weather however had other plans,...
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Category: Landscapes
Bridging the Tees
There's a saying in life, that if you don't know where you're going you'll end up somewhere else. That's never resonated more than when I drove in to Redcar this week. I hadn't really planned on...
Read MoreCornwall round-up
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space... And yet, across the gulf of space, minds...
Read MoreCornish Tin - Part 3
I left you at Botallack Mine at the end of the last post, with two very different shots of the Crown engine houses. If you haven't seen it you can read it here. This time we move further along...
Read MoreCornish Tin - Parts 1 and 2
Some things don't turn out the way you plan them. If I didn't know that already, I was about to find out. It was a beautifully sunny evening as I set off down the A374 towards the end of my...
Read MoreMorecambe Revisited
Five years ago I wrote a piece advocating the joys of Morecambe, the fast-fading and archetypal seaside town they forgot to close down, to paraphrase former Smiths frontman and all-round...
Read MoreThe Gower Peninsula
I spent an enjoyable few days in North Wales last November that included a day trip to the south to take a wander round an old colliery, so with time to pass I decided to take a full week this...
Read MoreTwo Men and Some Boats
It was a nice enough forecast, weather wise, the day we set out to find a great hulking shipwreck off the coast of County Clare. Sunny spells that suggested a bright light to make the rust pop...
Read MoreHappy New Year!
A few weeks ago I ended up in Alnwick, the picturesque County town of Northumberland, aimlessly passing the time and ultimately wandering into a kind of pavement-impasse with a young man in a...
Read MoreEdinburgh Magic
I've spent a bit of time in Edinburgh in recent years and never quite appreciated it - usually because I've twinned it with a trip to Glasgow, and while the latter is a city of many layers the...
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