Category: Photos
Abney Park Cemetery, London
At the edge of London’s Zone 2 there’s a wilderness. The constant hum of traffic is replaced by nesting birds, damp ground underfoot and a thick canopy that drops dappled shadows onto the pale faces of long-forgotten gravestones.
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A Foodies’ Guide To Lithuania
I have some advice: Don’t holiday in Lithuania if you don’t like carbs, if you wince at the thought of loosening a belt buckle or if, for whatever reason, you don’t enjoy eating.
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Vilnius In Monochrome: Walking In Lithuania’s Capital
During a walking tour of Lithuania’s capital, our guide produced a statistic: 60% of the time in the country it’s either snowing, raining or overcast.
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Hiking In Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia
I was lost metres from the main road. The midday heat of early May in Croatia’s countryside drenched the material of my heavy backpack, and I started to daydream about passing the afternoon with an icy beer instead.
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Walking Through 500 Years At Hampton Court Palace
“Of all losses, time is the most irrecuperable for it can never be redeemed.” (Henry VIII of England)
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My Twenty Favourite UNESCO Sites Around The World
This week, UNESCO added 24 new sites to its ever-growing list of places worth protecting on this planet. The UK’s notable offering was the Forth Bridge in Scotland, a masterpiece of Victorian engineering, which I was lucky enough to see first hand last summer.
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Dubrovnik’s Ancient Walls In Photos
Around the coastal city of Dubrovnik, solid ochre stone drops directly onto natural cliffs that plunge into the turquoise sea below. The ramparts of its protective walls once used for defence and embattlement, today stage thriving activity of a different kind.
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48 Hours In Riga, Latvia’s Capital
I chose Riga because it was cheap. One of my favourite travel daydreams begins by typing London to Everywhere into SkyScanner and sorting by price.
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The Curious Traveller 