Monthly Archives: May 2015
Shaun The Sheep – The Whole London Flock
After a fair few miles and in a great challenge to my awful map reading skills, not to mention a few blisters, I am now able to bring you all 50 London Shauns in a single post. Here’s looking forward to Bristol!
Shaun The Sheep V – London Calling
Fans of the band The Jam will be familiar with a song about life in London called ‘Strange Town’. One of the lyrics to the brilliant song goes,’ I got blisters on my feet, trying find a friend in Oxford Street’. Well, I got blisters on my feet, trying to find a statue of a […]
Shaun the Sheep IV
I battled the half-term week kids for some more pictures of Shaun in the last few days of their London residency. This sheep hunt took me from Carnaby Street, down Regent Street, across Piccadilly Circus, through Covent Garden, over the Strand to Somerset House and finally along Waterloo Bridge to the South Bank and London […]
Flying Over London
A few days ago I posted some pictures of my recent travels along the Thames by riverboat. Another alternative way to see London is via the Emirates Air Line, a cable car connecting North Greenwich near the O2 Arena with Royal Victoria and its connections with the DLR. For a £3.40 supplement over your Travelcard […]
Wilbur on the Beeb – Palmyra
A picture of mine made the BBC website yesterday, plus another from my travel buddy hamish (Andrew Hurst). You can see the whole gallery here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-32824052 They also extracted a couple of quotes from a few paragraphs that I wrote about the horrific thought of Palmyra being destroyed. Here is the full extract: “As a […]
Palmyra
The ancient site of Palmyra in Syria is in grave danger of being destroyed. I am praying that it is not, but really fear that the wonderful ruins will be lost for ever to future generations to be amazed by. I was fortunate enough to visit in May 2009 and here are a few pictures […]
Shaun The Sheep II
London will be shorn of Shauns at the end of the month, so I have been out and about again to round a few more up before they flock off.
Great Train Journey
In all the lists of the best train journeys, there is one that always amazes me by its absence. In 1999 I took the Puno to Cusco Express as an hors-d’oeuvre to the Machu Picchu Trail. The ten-hour journey from the shores of Lake Titticaca to the Inca capital passed through some stunning scenery, but never seems […]
