This bright, spotty piece is the work of a Norwegian stencil artist, Martin Whatson. The plain grey background adorned with splashing, vibrant colours is typical of his style of street […]
Unan, daou, tri… These Breton sheep just couldn’t resist posing for my camera… Perhaps it was my very basic use of the Breton language, probably incorrectly, that made them […]
Two of the top ways to make your way around London involve wiggling and wobbling. You can make your way up and down the Thames in a leisurely manner by foot, wiggling […]
If you fancy joining in with One Word Sunday, feel free to create your own photographic post with just one word (plus a basic caption if you want) and leave a link back […]
“Literature and travel are anciently, inevitably tangled. Journeys suggest stories, stories take the form of journeys, odyssey, exoduses, pilgrims’ and rakes’ progresses” – Jonathan Raban, For Love and Money […]
Margate draws me back repeatedly – a down-to-earth town with a gorgeous seafront, welcoming people and the Turner Contemporary. Places with sea or river are always a delight for me, […]
The Ploumanac’h lighthouse is easily viewed from the coastal footpath, Sentier des Douaniers, a gentle stroll from Saint-Guirec. The first lighthouse here was built in 1860. Sadly, it was destroyed in […]
I always think of cloisters as being buried low down and in the midst of the building, but the nature of Mont St Michel perched on an island and reaching up […]
This quaint building with devil-like grotesques and welcoming aqua-coloured doors rests on the pink granite coast of Brittany, between the village and the lighthouse of Ploumanac’h. I believe the cheeky grotesques that adorn the roof, are one […]