by Patrick | Aug 31, 2015 | art, Design, Environment, Lifestyle, Travel
In recent years there seems to have been a resurgence in pride in creating quintessentially English interiors. At all levels of the hospitality market interior design practices have been producing design solutions that are recognisably within an English tradition....
by Patrick | Sep 18, 2014 | Remembrance, Travel
The holiday makers lie broiling in the Mediterranean sun. Bronzed bald headed muscle men stride past mounds of bright reddening flabby granddads; slender brown bikini clad beauties strut their flat stomachs past roly-poly grandmas sunbathing topless like...
by Patrick | Jun 27, 2014 | Travel
Well known luxury airline Ryanair flew me back into Luton from the northern Sardinian airport of Alghero. It is something of a typical British welcome when arriving back the first thing you hear on the station is ‘we are sorry for the delay due to technical...
by Patrick | Mar 30, 2014 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, Travel
I thought “Bugger Narnia”. It may have been that for an English child in the early 20th century the darkness of grandma’s wardrobe, the smell of camphor and cedar wood were the harbingers of mystery and adventure. In a miserable damp English autumn...
by Patrick | Jan 12, 2014 | Environment, Lifestyle, Travel
I’m very lucky to have relations in South Africa. This makes travelling to the Dark Continent relatively affordable, but generally tourism to Africa, especially safari tours, is an expensive activity for a European or American. Yet over 40% of tourists to SA...
by Patrick | Oct 19, 2013 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, wilderness
Some photographs, like that of the Seven Sisters I mimicked in my last blog post, are determined by the location, and not much by the photographer or even his equipment. Like the views of the Seven Sisters, the giant sand dunes in the Namibian sand sea have been...
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