Last week, when we went to see Evita (which didn’t live up to the hype for us - it’s now closed) we saw the Gormley statues in the area of the Hayward’s Gallery
These are dotted about on the rooftops, on both banks of the Thames. It’s a little creepy, and I’m sure that they must [...]
After watching the D on Friday, we thought it’d be a wasted opportunity if we didn’t spend a little time looking at the old stomping grounds.
Birmingham has always been a good, if under-rated city (lots of people only know it by the view from the M6) - it’s now a great city. We left Birmingham [...]
I’ve updated my visted countries maps, and they look like this (with Germany and Austria being only fleeting):
I’ve visited the counties in yellow.Which counties have you visited?
made by marnanelmap reproduced from Ordnance Survey map databy permission of the Ordnance Survey.© Crown copyright 2001.
On the UK map, much is to be taken with a pinch of [...]
Yesterday I acquired a GPS from Amazon, and I decided to go into London. I wanted to see the Michelangelo exhibition, and test the GPS at the same time.
I walked around home a bit to check all was well, and then I headed off for the train. Unfortunately there is no way to get the [...]
Today we spent some time in London. We started with a trip to Hampstead Heath in order to see "The Writer"
This is on Parliament Hill (actually, it is to the side of the hill) and it is a gigantic table and chairs. Very simple, but I liked it a lot.
We walked from there to Archway [...]
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