Well, that’s a wrap for us. This is the last day of our 10-month (307 day) adventure, for tomorrow we’re Sydney bound. We’ve been to some incredible places, met amazingly friendly people and been inspired by this wonderful opportunity to up sticks and see a bit more of the world. Our last few days in…
Author: paulandanthony
We're recently early retired from long and exhausting careers in Brand Design Strategy and TV Producing / Writing. After two long years of being trapped by COVID in our home town of Sydney Australia, we're ready to unfurl our wings and fly off on new adventures that will take us first up to Far North Queensland then the UK and Mexico - revisiting favourite places we haven't been to in over 30 years. Now living in Far North Queensland, Australia.
Into the Woods
The Bluebell is the sweetest flower That waves in summer air: Its blossoms have the mightiest power To soothe my spirit’s care. Emily Bronte, 1846 A blustery cold day in April. What a contrast to last weekend! Shoreham Wood in Kent. Blue Bell Heaven.
The Jurassic Coast
Just across Poole Harbour on the Isle of Purbeck stand Old Harry Rocks, the most easterly point of the wonderfully named Jurassic Coast. These magnificent chalk cliffs and precarious stacks stand facing the English Channel backed by rolling green countryside with chocolate-box villages of thatched cottages and ancient low-beamed pubs. These towering cliffs are perilously…
Mercury Rising
A UK newspaper headline over Easter read ‘Hottest for 70 years… and it’s not just Easter eggs that are melting’, followed by the predictable ‘Whilst wind and rain battered the continent’ or the classic perennial ‘England hotter than Ibiza’. Temps across Britain did indeed soar to the mid 20s and the weather was, as forecast,…
Shard of Glass
The Shard looms ever present around the streets of Borough, rising 309 metres, seemingly piercing the sky, especially on misty overcast mornings. But on a bright, bright, sunshiny day like today, its blue green glass gleams and shines like something out of the Wizard of Oz, a true ‘Shard of Glass’. The viewing deck of…
Vine Yard
We’ve been staying in a loft space in a secret enclosed yard, tucked just off Borough High Street, one of the oldest streets in London, pretty much in constant use for the past 2000 years! Vine Yard is a wonderfully quiet space with trees bursting with blossom in the Spring sunshine. Blackbirds signing and squirrels…
Where Angels Fear to Tread
It’s always interesting to see a familiar building from a different perspective, especially one that controversially clashes a classical masterpiece with a gleaming glass office tower, right beside each other. A risky undertaking. One New Change is the only shopping centre in the City of London, designed by French ‘starchitect’, Jean Nouvel. During its planning…
Brutalist Barbican – A Different Perspective
The Barbican is one of those buildings / complexes / estates even, that divide people into the LOVE IT / HATE IT camps. It’s not for everyone that’s for sure, but it certainly is for those of us (yes, I’m in the LOVE IT camp) who like strong, well thought out architecture that fits into…
Greenwich Means Time
Greenwich is the home of time, where eastern and western hemispheres meet, and this place doesn’t just ooze history, it sets time for the whole planet. Unbelievably (as a Londoner no less) I’ve never been here! Don’t know why, no school trips that I can remember and I guess I must have been otherwise occupied…
The Three Wise Monkeys
Best not to raise the shenanigans that are BREXIT! Hawarden Park, part of the Gladstone Estate, Flintshire, Wales. April 2019.
Travels With My Ant 