Showing posts with label Places. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Places. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 June 2012

More Hanging Gardens, this time in Madrid!

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In Madrid near the Prado Museum we saw this enormous hanging wall garden. Given how much biomass one often removes seasonally from one's...
Saturday, 2 June 2012

LHR Terminal 5 & Madrid

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Last time I travelled, I commented on the new tray delivery system at Heathrow's Terminal 5 security (in gleeb goes to Toronto ). This t...
Tuesday, 1 May 2012

I am the Vindo Viper

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Did you ever play the telephone game when you were a kid, calling up someone unknown and saying (in your deepest bass voice): “I am the Vi...
Saturday, 28 April 2012

Durham's venerable 'vennels'

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What's a vennel, you might ask. Wikipedia defines it as a 'passageway' and explicitly says they are common to Scotland and Durha...
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Russell Square tube station: another icon

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Along with Edgware Road tube station on the Bakerloo Line, Russell Square tube station on the Piccadilly Line is another of the iconic produ...
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Sunday, 8 April 2012

The "Barnes Dance" crosswalk in London!

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A year ago, the papers in Colorado were full of emotive laments that Denver was going to eliminate "Barnes Dance" crosswalks. Thes...
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012

gleeb visits Toronto: standing on Scotland

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Scotland used to be part of North America – a continent called Laurentia. The opening of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean around 55 million y...
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012

gleeb goes to Toronto: LHR Terminal 5

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First experience of Terminal 5 at Heathrow; judgment: very nice! It was cavernous – more so than Terminal 4 and somewhat like Stanstead. And...
Saturday, 7 January 2012

Durham coal-train track walks

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Gorse blooming in January! It isn't usually out until March-April. Finally, the wind has stopped blowing and the sun has come out. ...
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Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Edwardian experience in Edgware Road station, London

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The Edgware Road station of the Bakerloo Line takes one back in time to the early 1900s. It has the iconic facade of several of the London u...
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Saturday, 24 December 2011

Hyde Park Christmas Fair and Market

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A huge facade for a pirates' den, complete with Jaws suspended outside at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, London Going under the ti...
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Saturday, 17 December 2011

London's South Bank Christmas Market

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South Bank's Festival Hall and Christmas Market in London Towns around Britain are holding Christmas Markets, as I previously report...
Thursday, 15 December 2011

New Street Life on Exhibition Road, London

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Monday, 12 December 2011

Hammam experience at Casa Spa, London

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Casa Spa reception My friend and I have just completed a Groupon introduction to a hammam in London. Located at a small shopfr...
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Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Christmas Lights and Dinner at Hotel Russell

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Hotel Russell with Christmas Lights Hotel Russell is a grand old Victorian building at the northeast corner of Russell Square in Londo...
Tuesday, 6 December 2011

British Museum Members' Christmas Party

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For Friends of the British Museum, several "parties" and "member's evenings" are scheduled throughout the year. We h...
Saturday, 3 December 2011

Durham Christmas Fair

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You used to have to go to the continent to enjoy Christmas Markets, but now many towns across Britain have one. Durham's has the ambienc...
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Turner Prize nominations: art at the BALTIC, Gateshead

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It is only the second time that the exhibition of works for the Turner Prize artist nominations has been held outside London: this year in...
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Friday, 28 October 2011

A Trip to the Seaside

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When I heard we were going to Gibraltar Point last weekend, I thought it was an awfully long way to go for a two-night stay. But it turned o...
Saturday, 15 October 2011

Library DVDs are not bad!

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The Blockbuster ticket logo on its old shop, covered with a policing sign presumably to deter break-ins It's probably not news to ...