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The Colour of Ice Cream

We are having something of a heat wave here in Britain; so hot that the railway lines were melting near London Waterloo the other day.  So I thought that for […]

Alphabet Challenges

B is for… Boat

Whenever I visit Tarragona, I like to pop down to the fishermen’s district, El Serallo. It is home to a well known fish market, and many fish and seafood restaurants. […]

-London

Woman Driver

This beautiful mural, made of ceramic tiles painted by Brian James in 2011, marks the former site of  a Bloomsbury petrol station.  The old Ridgmount petrol station dates back to […]

-London

St Paul’s Cathedral

St Paul’s Cathedral looks particularly striking in this pencil sketch. The sketch is in fact a modified version of this photograph, altered using Picasa.  Here is my original: This post […]

-London

Royal Naval College Mirrored

The Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich, was not given its name for nothing. The ceiling is painted in the utmost detail, hard to appreciate with […]

-Ireland

A is for… Alphabet

At the Old Library in Trinity College, Dublin the public are granted access to the 65 metre-long Long Room. As with the British Library, Trinity College Library is a legal […]

Beach holiday

Windows from Sitges

Sitges is an incredibly picturesque town: white and blue buildings, sandy beaches, modernist architecture, flowers, gardens, statues, …  And its windows are no exception. For this Thursday’s Lingering Look at […]

-England

No Words Required

Regents Park in the sunshine:. Yes, we had a sunny day in London on Sunday – at long last! Wordless Wednesday – on Wednesdays  all over the internet bloggers  post […]

-London

Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge looks extra grandiose in black and white. . Part of Sonel’s Black and White Challenge: Bridges.